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Patrick Malone Director and Executive in Residence 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
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG1

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG2

  • PUAD-623 Executive Problem Solving: Exec Problem Solving Key57

  • PUAD-684 Organizational Analysis

Summer 2025

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG 1

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching OIG SES3

Fall 2025

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

  • PUAD-028 Executive Skill Modules: Executive Coaching GAO 9

  • PUAD-612 Intro to Public Admin/Pol Proc

  • PUAD-620 Public Marketing & Strat Comm: Pub Mktg & Strat Comm Key 57

  • PUAD-620 Public Marketing & Strat Comm: Pub Mktg & Strat Comm Key 58