D.D. (Don) Warrick, DBA

University of Minnesota Duluth

• Dr. Warrick is an award winning educator, consultant, and author who specializes in developing skilled leaders, high performing organizations, teams, and cultures, and effectively managing change.  He is a Professor of Leadership and Organization Change at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs where he holds the title of President’s Teaching Scholar awarded by the University of Colorado.  Dr. Warrick has received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network Association for his “significant and lasting impact on the field and practice of organization development” and the Academy of Management Distinguished Educator Award for “exceptional contributions to organization development and change education, scholarship, and practice.”  He has been recognized in the prestigious Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers with a chapter devoted to his contributions as one of the leading thinkers on organization change and development.  He is the author or co-author of over one hundred articles, book chapters, and professional papers and eleven books.  At his university Dr. Warrick has received the Chancellor’s Award, the university’s highest annual award, the Outstanding Teacher Award for the University, and has also received the Outstanding Faculty Award and many Outstanding Teaching Awards in the College of Business.  He also serves as the President of the Warrick Agency Training and Development Company and has been a consultant or trainer for many Fortune 500 and international companies as well as medium and small size organizations, government agencies, universities, and non-profit organizations.  For his contributions to his areas of expertise, Dr. Warrick has received a number of awards including, for example, being named the Outstanding Organization Development Practitioner of the Year, the Outstanding Human Resources Professional of the Year, Best Professor in Organizational Development, and the David Bradford/McGraw-Hill Educator of the Year.  Dr. Warrick completed his BBA and MBA degrees at the University of Oklahoma and doctorate at the University of Southern California.

  SAMPLING OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE USED DR. WARRICK AS A CONSULTANT OR TRAINE

  Aeroquip-Vickers Allied Signal Amax Gold American Banking Association Amoco Canada Ampex Analytical Surveys Inc. AT&T Atmel Bank Of America Bank Of Oswego Bateman Engineering Battle Mountain Gold Belize Chamber Of Commerce BC Credit Union, Canada Benedictine University Blue Cross Blue Shield Bowling Green State University British Petroleum California Banking Association Central Michigan University Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Christian Booksellers Association Christian Music Trade Associations Cigna Health Care City Of Colorado Springs City Of Denver Compassion International Colo. Springs School Dist. 20 Cornerstone University Current Incorporated Dayspring Deloitte Touche Department Of The Interior Digital Dofasco Steel, Canada Dow Corning

  DuPont Eli Lilly Federal Highway Administration Focus On The Family Great West Financial Greater Europe Mission Halifax Community College Hartford Insurance Harley-Davidson Harrison Western Hewlett Packard Honeywell Hughes Aircraft IBM Integrated Medical Systems J.D. Edwards Junior Achievement Kaman Corporation Kansas Power And Light King’s Daughters Medical Center Kirkham Michael Engineering KNEnergy Knoll Pharmaceuticals Land Properties Louisiana State Universities (14) Manville MCI Mead Corporation Midwest Gas Association Mitsui USA National Park Service Navigators Newmont Mining Nextel Communications Noel-Levitz Northern Pipeline Nova Information Systems

  Norwest Mortgage OC International Occidental Life Insurance Occupational Health Mgmt Systems Outreach Publications Penrose-St.Francis Healthcare Pepsi-Cola Public Service Of Colorado Public Service Of Wisconsin Regis University Rocky Mountain Healthcare Rose Medical Center Schuller International SEMCO ENERGY State Of Hawaii State Of Louisiana St.Charles Medical Center St.Vincent Medical Center Sun Oil Company Terracon Consultants Inc. The Broadmoor The Gold And Silver Institute Trapper Mining Inc. TRW Electronics Unilever United Technology University Of Colorado Univ. Of South Dakota URS Corporation U.S. Army U.S. Olympic Committee Western Area Power Admin Whirlpool Word Publishing Xerox Young Life International Zellerbach

   

• DBA, University of Southern California
• MBA, University of Oklahoma
• BA, University of Oklahoma

• Professor, Leadership and Organization Change, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO, 1971 -present
• Professor, University of Colorado Executive MBA program, CO, 1981-2018 

• Officer, United States Air Force
• Manager, Pacific Telephone
• Manager, Training and Development, Hughes Aircraft
• President, Warrick Agency Training and Development Company
  • Consultant or trainer for many Fortune 500 and international companies, as well as medium and small size organizations, government agencies, universities and non-profit organizations and religious organizations.

• 11 Books, Over 100 Articles, Book Chapters, and Professional Papers
• Co-Editor of 2 Academy of Management Proceedings
• Warrick, D.D., Mueller, Jens,  Warrick, Anna F., & Mueller, Jens, (Eds, 2024).  Cases on critical leadership skills.  Cheltnam, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Warrick, D.D. (2023).  Revisiting resistance to change and how to manage it.  What has been learned and what organization need to do.  Business Horizons,  66(4), 433-441.
• Warrick, D.D. & Cady, Steven H. (2023). Is your organization prepared for Tsunami change?  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 59(2), 337-340.
• Warrick, D.D. (2017).  What leaders need to know about organization culture.  Business Horizons 60 (3), 395-404.

• International
  • Life Time Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network Association for "significant and lasting impact on the field and practice of organizational development."
  • Academy of Management Distinguished Education Award for "exceptional contributions to organizational development and change education, scholarships and practice."
  • Chapter devoted to his contributions in Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers.
• University of Colorado System
  • President's Teaching Scholar
• UCCS
  • Chancellor's Award
  • Outstanding Teacher Award
  • Legacy Builder Award
  • Don Warrick Endowment for Excellence in Leadership, Teaching, and Culture established by UCCS.
• College of Business
  • Outstanding Teacher Award (multiple awards)
  • Outstanding Faculty Award
  • Outstanding Service Award
• Professional
  • Outstanding Organization Development Practitioner of the Year
  • Outstanding Human Resources Professional of the Year
  • Best Professor in Organizational Development
  • David Bradford/McGraw-Hill Educator of the Year

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Warrick earns prestigious organizational development award - October 25, 2018