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Dr. Kenneth S. Rhee

 

 

 

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Dr. Rhee is currently a faculty in the Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business at Northern Kentucky University.  Prior to his recent appointment at NKU, he was a faculty at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, where he was a chair of its Assessment and Development program.  His main areas of research are competency development, adult development, and leadership.

Dr. Rhee has consulted to many Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies on various topics including executive and management development, organization development, culture change, innovation, selection, promotion, and career development.

He has presented in numerous international or national conferences including International Conference on Competency Development at Rome, Italy, International Conference on Self-directed Learning, Council on Adult Education and Learning Conference, Academy of Management, University of Wisconsin System Business Consortium, and Utah State Business in Partners.

He has worked extensively on competency assessment and development over the past ten years with multiple organizations and educational institutions.  He has also been working closely with Dan Goleman and Richard Boyatzis in developing emotional competency development programs and instruments.  He has since delivered numerous emotional competency development programs and speeches to a number of organizations including the Northwest Airlines, Family Business Institute, Sea World Entertainment, Bureau of Public Debt, and Lucent Technologies. 

He is the author of several articles on emotional intelligence, self-directed behavior change and competencies.  He is also a contributing author of a book entitled Innovations in Professional Education: Steps on a Journey from Teaching to Learning.

Dr. Rhee has a BA in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University, MS in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MBA from Boston University, and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.