Patrick Malone Director and Executive in Residence Public Administration and Policy
- Degrees
- PhD, ĢƵ
MS, Trinity University, San Antonio
BS, Southwest Texas State University - Bio
- Professor Malone is the Director, Key Executive Leadership Programs at ĢƵ. 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
- To request an interview for a news story, call ĢƵ Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Summer 2024
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PUAD-021 Topics in Executive Mmgt: Brussels Residence Exec Abrd
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PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG SES2
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PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG 01
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PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG 02
Fall 2024
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PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG O1
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PUAD-057 Managing Organizational Trans: Managing Org Trans OE 101
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PUAD-612 Intro to Public Admin/Pol Proc
Spring 2025
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PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG1
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PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG2
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PUAD-623 Executive Problem Solving: Exec Problem Solving Key57
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PUAD-684 Organizational Analysis
ĢƵ 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 ĢƵ’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 ĢƵ Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.