About Me

Dr. John Ballard is emeritus professor, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati. His undergraduate senior thesis (USAF Academy, 70); MA thesis (University of Southern Mississippi, 75); and doctoral dissertation (Purdue, 83) were parapsychological studies. Joseph Rychlak directed his doctoral work in social-personality psychology. Ballard is widely known for his work as an organizational psychologist and as a management scholar, including his award-winning book Decoding the Workplace. A humanistic psychologist, he is an eclectic scholar and author known also for his research about Abraham Maslow. 

Ballard was the last in a long line of researchers J. B. Rhine took under his wing in the 1960s and early 1970s. After being a Summer Research Fellow with the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, he pursued a U.S. Air Force career, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1990. 

He began his academic career at the Air Force’s graduate school, the Air Force Institute of Technology, teaching organizational behavior, and for Air Force mortuary officers, teaching death and dying. After visiting in business departments at Wittenberg University and Miami University, he completed his teaching career in the School of Business at MSJ. Ballard has been honored with numerous awards, including being named his university’s Outstanding Scholar in 2016.

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