Walter Flynn is owner and founder of W. J. Flynn and Associates, LLC, Human Resource Consultants. His clients include medical centers, academic health centers, hospitals, clinics, physician practices, mental health clinics, colleges and universities, insurance, pharmacy benefit management and industrial companies. Prior to developing his consulting practice, Mr. Flynn served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. Mr. Flynn holds an M.B.A. in management from Xavier University and a B.S. in psychology from Northern Kentucky University. Mr. Flynn has held adjunct faculty positions, teaching human source management and strategic management courses in graduate programs at Northern Kentucky University, University of Cincinnati, University of Minnesota and Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. In addition, he has presented on a wide variety of HR management topics at state SHRM and corporate-sponsored conferences throughout the United States. Mr. Flynn holds lifetime certification from SPHR. Through his leadership efforts, mentoring of new HR professionals, teaching and consulting, Mr. Flynn has strived to raise the HR function in healthcare organizations to the level of strategic business partner for executive leadership. Dr. Sean R. Valentine is Professor of Management and Chair, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, and the Eugene Dahl Character and Innovation Endowed Chair in the Middleton School of Entrepreneurship and Management at the Nistler College of Business, University of North Dakota. Originally from Texas, he received a Bachelor of Science in management/human resources from Park University, a Bachelor of Science in hotel, restaurant and tourism management from New Mexico State University, an MBA from Texas State University, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Louisiana Tech University. He was employed in the hospitality industry for many years and served as an officer in the Army National Guard. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Valentine has published more than 75 articles in journals such as Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Personnel Review, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Behavioral Research in Accounting. His primary research and teaching interests include human resource management, business ethics and organizational behavior. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work, and he has consulted with different organizations on numerous management and business matters. Dr. Patricia A. Meglich is a management professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Born and raised in Ohio, she earned her B.S.B.A. from Bowling Green State University, her MBA from Cleveland State University and her doctoral degree from Kent State University. Prior to entering academia, she spent 20 years as the human resources director for an automotive supplier, where she designed and implemented talent management programs and participated in numerous acquisitions and business process reengineering initiatives. Dr. Meglich has been active in professional activities with SHRM and was awarded the national SHRM Award for Professional Excellence. She is certified SPHR and SHRM-SCP. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, such as Group and Organization Management, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Personnel Review, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, and Research in Human Resource Management. She has developed several learning modules and course materials for SHRM and has received a number of teaching awards at UNO. She serves as a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the Management Center of Innsbruck (Austria). Dr. Meglich is committed to bridging research to the practice of HR and ensuring that HR professionals have timely, relevant information needed to lead their organizations to success.
