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Gary Metcalf
American business theorist

Gary Metcalf

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American business theorist
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Gary Metcalf
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Gary S. Metcalf (born 1957) is an American systems scientist, organizational theorist, management consultant, and university professor. He has served as president of the International Federation for Systems Research since 2010.

Biography

Raised in Oviedo, Florida Metcalf received a B.S. in Education in 1981 from the North Texas State University, an M.S.S.W. in Social Work in 1985 from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a Ph.D. in Human Science in 2000 at the Saybrook Graduate School. This doctoral research was conducted under the mentorship of Béla H. Bánáthy, focused on Social Systems Design and Organizational Development.

Metcalf began his professional career as a systems-oriented family therapist, working with teenagers and their families in short-term residential facilities. Between 1987 and 1989, Metcalf was the manager of Employee Assistance Programs at Tandy Corporation. From 1989 to 1998, Metcalf was a manager at Ashland Inc., designing and implementing an Employee Assistant Program and leading a team to promote corporate-wide health programs. And in 1998 he founded InterConnections, LLC an organizational consulting firm based in Ashland, Kentucky.

Since 2003, Gary Metcalf has been on the teaching faculty of Saybrook University, as graduate instructor in Organizational Systems, and Research. Between 2004 and 2009, he was an instructor in the Federal Executive Institute, Office of Personnel Management, US Federal Government. From 2005 to 2009, he taught in the Bhavan Marshall MBA Program in Bangalore, India. And since 2011, Metcalf has been a Distinguished Lecturer at Sullivan University, in the PhD in Management program. And since 2011, he has been visiting faculty at Aalto University, teaching courses in systems thinking in the Master's Programme in Creative Sustainability.

Gary Metcalf is a past president for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2007–2008). In this role, he led the ISSS 2008 meeting at University of Wisconsin-Madison. From this meeting, he edited the General Systems Research, published as Systems Research and Behavioral Science volume 26, issue 5. since 2010 Metcalf has been president of the International Federation for Systems Research . Previously, he served in the role of Vice President on the Executive Committee of the IFSR from 2002. He resides in Ashland, Kentucky.

Publications

Gary Metcalf is author and coauthor of several books and articles. A selection:

  • 1985. An Evaluation of Family Therapy at a Runaway Shelter. University of Texas at Arlington, 1985.
  • 2001. The management of people in mergers and acquisitions. With Teresa A. Daniel. Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books. ISBN 1-56720-369-8
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