Jody Fry Profile
Dr. Jody Fry
- Department: Management & Marketing
- Room: FH-217M
- Professor of Management
- BS Industrial Engineering, Southern Methodist University
- MBA, American University, Washington, D.C.
- Ph.D. Organization Theory and Behavior, The Ohio State University
Louis W. (Jody) Fry is Regents Professor of Management and Leadership at Texas A & M University-Central Texas. The Regent Professor Award is the highest honor bestowed on faculty members by the A&M System. The performance of those selected is considered meritorious and worthy of recognition of their achievements that had an impact on not only their institution but also the community, the state of Texas, and/or at the national and international levels.
Dr. Fry also coordinates TAMUCT's MS Leadership for Sustainability Program, which allows him to work with progressive educators and practitioners to make business education for a sustainable world more relevant, accessible, and affordable. Presently, he is a member of the editorial review boards of Sustainability, Associate Editor for Leadership and Spirituality for the Journal of Management Spirituality and Religion, and the editor for Information Age Publishing of a book series, Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research, and Application. The author of two books, Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line Through Spiritual Leadership, published by Stanford University Press, and Spiritual Leadership on Action: The CEL Story published by Information Age Publishing, he is the founder of the International Institute for Spiritual Leadership and a commissioned spiritual director. His present research, consulting, and executive development interests are focused on maximizing the triple bottom line through spiritual leadership to co-create a conscious, flourishing world that works for everyone.
Dr. Fry has extended his work on spiritual leadership to the field of sustainability, resulting in recent publications titled Cultivating a Global Mindset Through Being-Centered Leadership, Global Leadership for Sustainability, and Global Leadership for Sustainability: Essential Competencies for Leading Transformative Multi-Sector Partnerships.