Don Stone  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Interests

• Action Research and Collaborative Inquiry as the basis for building leadership capacity in groups and organizations
  
• How to build leadership capacity within organizations so that when the titular leader leaves, the adaptive leadership remains.
  
• How to implement “360 degree leadership” to encourage leading from the middle and from the bottom-up as well as top-down.
  
• How to follow Plato’s dictum of “Know thyself” as the starting point for leadership development.
  
• The Hall-Tonna Values Inventory, used in the Saint Mary’s Leadership curriculum, as a brilliant methodology for leadership and organizational development
  
• How “knowledge” is not information immaculately conceived, but rather a personal and social construction.