Roger Kaufman is professor emeritus, educational psychology and learning systems, and was director, Office for Needs Assessment and Planning, as well as Associate Director of the Learning Systems Institute, all at the Florida State University (1975–2003) where he received the Professorial Excellence Award. He is also Distinguished Research Professor at the Sonora Institute of Technology (Mexico) and consulting faculty in business and technology at Excelsior College. Kaufman has served as Research Professor of Engineering Management at the Old Dominion University as well as the New Jersey Institute of Technology and associated with the faculty of industrial engineering at the University of Central Florida. In addition, he is Director of Roger Kaufman & Associates. Kaufman is a Certified Performance Technologist, International Society for Performance Improvement. He received the U.S. Coast Guard/Department of Homeland Security medal for Meritorious Public Service. Previously he was professor of human behavior at the United States International University (now Alliant International University) and professor of education at Chapman University, and also taught courses in strategic planning, needs assessment, and evaluation at the University of Southern California and Pepperdine University. He was the 1983 Haydn Williams Fellow at the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. Roger serves as the Vice Chair of the Senior Research Advisory Committee for Florida TaxWatch. His Ph.D. in communications is from New York University, with additional graduate work in industrial engineering, psychology, and education at the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University (MA). His undergraduate work was in psychology, statistics, sociology, and industrial engineering at Purdue and George Washington (BA) Universities.
Before entering higher education, he was Assistant to the Vice President for Engineering as well as Assistant to the Vice President for Research at Douglas Aircraft Company. Prior to that, he was Director of Training System Analysis at U.S. Industries; Head of Training Systems for the New York office of Bolt, Beranek & Newman; and head of human factors engineering at Martin Baltimore and earlier as a human factors specialist at Boeing. He has served two terms on the U.S. Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Board on Education and Training.
Kaufman’s clients—working in the areas of strategic planning, change management–change creation, quality management, needs assessment, evaluation, distance learning, and organizational improvement include or have included:
Accenture
Accounting Firms Associated
American Airlines Group/Blue Cross of Texas/ISPI
American Association of School Administrators (AASA)— National Academy of School Executives (NASE)
Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting (World headquarters and Australia)
AT&T
Australian Department of Defence
Australian Public Service and Merit Protection Commission
Australian Treasury
Bank of Boston (Argentina) Bankers’ Institute of New Zealand Bell Canada
Boatmen’s Bancshares
Boeing Leadership Center
Boeing/Microsoft/ISPI Boise State University
Box Hill Institute of TAFE (Australia)
Catholic University of Chile
Catholic University of Valparaiso (Chile)
Central Statistical Office (UK)
Chase Manhattan Bank
Council of Chief State School Officers
Deutsche Bank
EastConn Regional Education Service Center
Edison Community College
Equifax
Excelsior College
Fireman’s Fund Insurance
First Union Bank
Flight Safety International
Florida Department of Corrections
Florida Department of Education
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services
Florida Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget
Florida Office of Tobacco Control
Florida Power & Light
Gallaudet University
Hugh Oakley-Browne Associates
IBM
Institute of Educational Technology/Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina
International Society for Performance Improvement
Leon County (Florida) School Board
Los Alamos National Laboratories
M&M Mars
March of Dimes
MBC (Argentina & Chicago)
McDonnell-Douglas
McGraw-Hill
Microsoft
Milliken Industries
MIM Holdings, Ltd.
Moran Towing
National Open University of Venezuela
New Zealand Department of Health
New Zealand departments of Minister and Cabinet, Treasury, Army, State Services, and Science and Technology
New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit
Niagara Wires Division of Niagara-Lockport
Nova Southeastern University
Ohio Civil Service Employees Association/AFL-CIO
Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand)
Parke-Davis
Pasa Petrochemical and Refinor (Argentina)
Perez Companc S. A.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Pioneer Cement
Polytechnic University of Ecuador (ESPOL)
Prairie-View A&M University
Prevention First
Shell Oil Company
Simon Bolivar University
Sonora Institute of Technology (Mexico)
State University of New York
Sun Microsystems
Sydney Water Board
Texas Instruments
Train-Koeln (Germany)
Tricon Global Industries (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC)
U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command/Comtech
U.S. Army Training Support Center
U.S. Centers for Disease Control
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/Veterans Benefits Administration
U.S. Marine Corps
Unisys of Australia
Universidades Tecnologicas (Mexico)
University of Puerto Rico
Valencia (Florida) Community College
Venezuela American Society for Curriculum and Development (ASCD)
Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff
Wellington (New Zealand) City Council
World Bank
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Florida Governor’s Humanities Council and is a member of the advisory board of the Center for Measuring University Performance at the Arizona State University.
Kaufman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of School Psychology, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and a Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has been awarded the highest honor of the International Society for Performance Improvement by being named an honorary “Member for Life,” an organization for which he also served as president. He has been awarded the Thomas F. Gilbert Professional Achievement Award by that same organization. He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and Asia Pacific Human Resources Management 2007–2008 Leadership Award.
Kaufman has published 40 books, including:
• 30 Seconds that Can Change Your Life: A Decision-Making Guide for Those who Refuse to Be Mediocre
• Change, Choice, and Consequences: A Guide to Strategic Thinking and Planning
• The Assessment Book: Applied Strategic Thinking and Performance Improvement through Self-Assessments
• Mega Planning
• Strategic Thinking—Revised
He co-authored Useful Educational Results: Defining, Prioritizing, and Accomplishing, as well as Practical Strategic Planning: Aligning People, Performance, and Payoffs and Practical Evaluation for Educators: Finding What Works and What Doesn’t. He has also published 275 articles on strategic planning, performance improvement, distance learning, quality management and continual improvement, needs assessment, management, and evaluation.
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