Larry Barton

Larry Barton
Nationality American
Alma mater Boston College
Tufts University
Boston University
The American College
Website larrybarton.com

Laurence Barton more commonly known as Larry Barton is an American risk management consultant, author and professor. He served as the president of The American College from 2003 to 2013. Concurrent with his role at The American College, he is a trainer at The FBI Academy and at The U.S. Marshals Service.[1]

Barton is considered an expert in threat assessment and workplace violence prevention and mitigation. Since 1987, he has worked as consultant with many organizations for mitigating threats in their workplace.[2][3] He has written four books and has contributed chapters to several others. Since 2005, he has been on the editorial board of Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.[4]

Early life and education

Barton graduated from Arlington Catholic High School in Massachusetts in 1974 and received his AB in Speech and Communications from the Boston College in 1978. In 1979, he joined Boston College as adjunct professor of communications. While working at the Boston College, he enrolled for Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) in International Business at Tufts University, completing his degree in 1981.In 1983, he received his Ph.D. from Boston University in International Relations and Public Policy.[5]

Career

Barton continued teaching at the Boston College till 1986 and joined the Harvard Business School as lecturer in Management Communication in 1987.[6] While he was teaching at Harvard Business School, he noticed that during the market's crash, many of his students who were Wall Street executives remained stoic. Their response to the market crash, impressed Barton and he decided to study how executive teams responded to crises. Subsequently, he started focusing his research and work on crisis and threat management. He left Harvard in 1989 and joined University of Nevada, Las Vegas as associate professor of Management. He received three First Interstate Bank research grants on crisis management. After leaving UNLV in 1993, he joined Pennsylvania State University in 1994 as associate professor of Management and Organization.[7]

In 1995, Barton joined Motorola as Vice President of Issues Management and later joined the company's semiconductor products sector where he managed regional teams in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and Tokyo.[8] In 1999, he left Motorola to join DeVry University as the president and chief academic and business officer and served there for two years,[9] when in 2001, he joined the Heald College as president and CEO.[10][11]

Barton joined The American College in 2003 as the President and CEO.[12] He was later endowed the O Granum Alfred Chair at the institute. He was appointed as an instructor in workplace violence prevention and crisis leadership at The FBI Academy in 2007 and at The US Marshals Service in 2013.[13]

Since 1987, Barton has also worked as threat and workplace violence consultant. As a consultant he was worked with numerous companies, non-profit institutions and law enforcement agencies on issues involving threats by employees and other stakeholders of the organization.[14] He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives at the University of Tennessee since 1995 and Gender and Violence since 2013.[15]

In 2011, he received his Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy from the The American College.[16]

Books and writing

Barton is the author of four books and has contributed chapters to several others. He wrote his first book, Crisis in Organizations in 1990. The second edition of the book, Crisis in Organizations II was published in 2000. Reviewing the book, Security Management wrote “Crisis in Organizations II covers a lot of ground, from recognizing a problem to exploring the communications aspects of crisis management. The meat of the book--the general principles that Barton covers--is well seasoned with case studies.[17] Alan Friedman of Northwestern University Medical School wrote that "Barton's book is rare, adopted by leading colleges for classroom use, and by American Express, Nabisco, and others in training programs. It is scholarly yet practical...breathtaking in depth."[18] Barton's third book, published in 1995, was Ethics: The Enemy in the Workplace.[19]

In 2008, Barton wrote Crisis Leadership Now, in which he analysed more than 400 cases of violence and scandal that impacted notable companies around the world.[20] The book was named one of the best business books for 2008 by Soundview Executive Books[21] and has been translated in four languages.[22]

Barton was the subject advisor for Crisis Management: The Essentials from Harvard Business School Books, and Risk Communications and Public Health from Oxford University Press. His articles have appeared in the The New York Times, The Boston Globe, USA Today, and numerous academic journals. Barton is the author of a monthly column on work place violence for The FBI-LEEDA Magazine.[23]

Bibliography

Awards and honors

References

  1. At Many Workplaces, Training For A New Threat: Active Shooters
  2. Workplace Violence Expert: Watch for ‘Grievance Collectors’
  3. With Laurence Barton of The American College
  4. NAIFA-Richmond Membership Breakfast Meeting
  5. Larry Barton, CAP®, PhD
  6. BC Supports 5500-Seat Sports Arena. The Lewiston Journal. November 7, 1985
  7. With Laurence Barton of The American College
  8. EP #11: REVITALIZING THE AMERICAN COLLEGE – WITH DR. LARRY BARTON
  9. DeVry University, Phoenix - 2000
  10. EP #11: REVITALIZING THE AMERICAN COLLEGE – WITH DR. LARRY BARTON
  11. Corinthian Colleges Faltering as Flow of Federal Money Slows
  12. Sorting the Financial Pros from the Cons. The Press Democrat. May 1, 2008.
  13. At Many Workplaces, Training For A New Threat: Active Shooters
  14. School shootings are far too common
  15. Violence and Gender
  16. Event: Protect Your Business and Yourself
  17. Crisis Management, Crisis Communication
  18. Crisis in Organizations II, 2nd Edition
  19. Ethics: The Enemy in the Workplace
  20. Today's European Trading Scandal Highlights Need for Crisis Planning Rises on Corporate Agenda
  21. Dr. Larry Barton, expert on threat and crisis management
  22. Crisis Leadership for the New Reality Ahead
  23. FBI LEEDA and a frequent commentator on BBC, CNN and CNBC during cases of public violence.
  24. NAIFA-Richmond Membership Breakfast Meeting
  25. Celebrity
  26. Interview with Dr. Larry Barton, CAP®, President and CEO of The American College
  27. Dr. Larry Barton To Receive Huebner Gold Medal From The American College
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