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Description:
Clinton Oliver Longenecker is an award winning business educator and is the Stranahan Professor of Leadership and Organizational Excellence in the College of Business Administration at the University of Toledo. He holds a B.B.A. in marketing, an M.B.A. in management, both from the University of Toledo, and a Ph.D. in management from The Pennsylvania State University. His teaching and research interests are in management and organizational effectiveness, organizational development and all facets of performance improvement. He has been the recipient of twelve outstanding teaching and research awards during his academic career and several industry awards including most recently, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2004 and the first recipient of the Toledo City Paper’s Best Professor of Northwest Ohio Award for 2004 and 2005.
He has published over 100 articles and papers in leading academic and professional journals including the Wall Street Journal, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Business Horizons and Organizational Dynamics among others. His book, Getting Results: Five Absolutes for High Performance describes the best practices of over 2,000 high performance managers and how they achieve outstanding performance and has been translated into six languages. He is also featured in several educational videos including the award winning CRM training film "Effective Performance Appraisal" and most recently, "Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing" based on his research.
He is a nationally recognized authority on performance improvement and is an active management consultant, educator and executive coach whose clients include a host of Fortune 500 firms and a variety of organizations including: Eaton Corporation, Roadway Express, Ameritech (now SBC Communications), Mercy Health Partners, Dana Corporation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Delphi Automotive among others. Dr. Longenecker has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of the West Indies Barbados and has also lectured extensively in Poland, Hungary, and Russia. In addition, he has recently been described by Career Publications as, “one of the top motivational speakers in the U.S. who can blend cutting edge research, common sense, humor and conviction into a call for better performance that we can all relate to and really do something with.”
Clint is a committed member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church and is an active Bible study leader and Christian speaker. He has spent extensive time working in the country of Haiti managing several missionary school and hospital construction projects. Clint is very happily married to the former Cindy Breese and they have three children, Clinton Charles, Shannon Marie, and Stephen Lorenzo.
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