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Patrick Malone Director and Executive in Residence Department of Public Administration and Policy

Degrees
PhD, American University




MS, Trinity University, San Antonio




BS, Southwest Texas State University

Bio
Professor Malone is the Director, Key Executive Leadership Programs at American University. He is a frequent guest lecturer on kindness, gratitude, emotional intelligence, compassion, ethics, mindfulness, and leadership at various organizations, professional associations, and universities including the Fulbright Scholars Program. His research and teaching interests include human motivation, kindness, leadership, ethics, and organizational behavior. Dr Malone is a retired Navy Captain. While in the Navy, he served in a number of leadership and policy roles including as a professor of biometrics and preventive medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Academic Director; and Dean of Academics for Navy Medicine. His most recent publications include: “The Way Leaders Think,” “The Trusting Leader,” “Selfies in the Workplace,” “Kindness and Survival of the Fittest,” “Go Ahead, Laugh – Why Humor Makes for a Better Workplace,” and “VulnerABILITY - Can Managers Benefit from Extreme Exposure?” His TED Talk, “Thinking about Time,” is available at http://tedxtalks.ted.com and his co-edited book, The Handbook of Federal Leadership and Administration, was published in November 2016. His co-authored book Leading with Love and Laughter was released in Spring 2021. His new book Emotional Intelligence for Talent Development was released in October 2021.
See Also
SPA Department of Public Administration and Policy
SPA Key Executive Leadership Programs
For the Media
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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • PUAD-021 Topics in Executive Mmgt: Beg Ldrshp Journey DOT AL 13

  • PUAD-022 Leadership for Key Executives: Leadership for KeyExec OE 100

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG CO1

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG CO2

  • PUAD-623 Executive Problem Solving: Executive Prblm Solving Key56

  • PUAD-684 Organizational Analysis

Summer 2024

  • PUAD-021 Topics in Executive Mmgt: Brussels Residence Exec Abrd

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG SES2

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG 01

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG 02

Fall 2024

  • PUAD-612 Intro to Public Admin/Pol Proc

AU Experts

Area of Expertise

Public and nonprofit leadership, perception and thinking capacity, executive problem solving, communication, organizational analysis, action learning, leadership ethics, and public policy implementation

Additional Information

Patrick Malone is an executive-in-residence where he teaches courses in public sector leadership, executive problem solving, organizational analysis, action learning, leadership ethics, and public administration in the policy process. He also serves as the director of American University’s Key Executive Leadership Programs. He is a frequent guest lecturer on leadership and organizational dynamics in state and federal agencies, professional associations, and universities. He has extensive experience working with federal sector leaders from DHHS, EPA, IRS, USDA, HUD, DHS, and DoD among others. Professor Malone also regularly presents in international forums to government leaders from the Republic of Vietnam, Panama, Poland, Belgium, and Mauritius. His research interests and scholarship include work in public service motivation, leadership, ethics, and organizational behavior. He is one of only thirty researchers in the country certified to score the Subject/Object qualitative research methodology developed at Harvard University. Malone spent twenty-two years in the Department of Defense where he served in a number of senior leadership and policy roles including as a professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; academic director; and dean of academics for Navy Medicine. His most recent publications include “Selfies in the Workplace: Narcissists and the Public Manager,” “Making Assumptions? Try the Power of Inquiry,” “The Challenges That Set Public Service Apart” and “Enhancing Your Leadership by Tapping into Staff Attitudes.”

For the Media

To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

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