management and crisis communications.
After teaching management and communications at Harvard Business School,
Boston College, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Penn State University (1983-94) he served as Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs for Motorola, Inc. from 1995-1998. In this role he was responsible for corporate crisis management for a corporation with 150,000 employees and annual sales of US $31 billion.
Over the years he served as a crisis consultant to leading organizations worldwide, including British Petroleum, ExxonMobil, The Walt
Disney Company, LG Electronics, Mirage Resorts, Honda, The United States
Army, GoldStar Electronics and TDS Telecom, among many others.
Dr. Barton is also a respected voice in higher education, having served
as past President of DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix and
Heald College, a system of eleven colleges in California, Oregon and Hawaii.
He is thePresident and Chief Executive Officer of The American College
in Bryn Mawr PA.
Dr. Barton has managed over 800 incidents worldwide, ranging from
workplace threats and murder, to stalking of employees and managers,
environmental and construction accidents, cases of fraud and embezzlement
and various sensitive controversies impacting organizational reputation and
market position. He has written over 300 crisis plans and designed nearly 40
corporate "war rooms" for companies worldwide.
As a seminar leader and presenter, his presentations consistently earn
"outstanding" ratings from audiences at conventions and seminars that have
ranged in size from twenty to over 2,000 attendees. Among his most
requested presentations is: "What Is A Nice Company Like Yours Doing In
A Headline Like This?"
Dr. Barton’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, Parade Magazine,
The Boston Globe and nearly forty academic journals. He has been interviewed
by all major television networks for his unique insight on the causes of crisis andhow effective managers can successfully navigate through turbulent events and he has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal.
He holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Boston College (1978), the M.A.L.D.
from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1981) and
his Ph.D. in public affairs and international communications from Boston University (1983). He was named Senior Fulbright Fellow to Japan in 1995 by the United States Information Agency.
