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Jon Brock is an associate professor at the Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. Affiliated with the school since 1981, his teaching and research activities have been related to the issues of people working in and around public and nonprofit organizations, to include public management, managing people, labor-management relations, conflict resolution, and agency improvement strategies.
Founder and former Chair of Cascade Executive Programs for Public Service and Leadership, Jon continues to teach one of the most popular core courses, "Managing People to Improve Programs". He also began the Electronic Hallway, which provides case studies on current and classic policy and management issues to public administration programs worldwide. Jon is now Director of the William D. Ruckelshaus Center at the Evans School, a joint venture between the University of Washington and Washington State University. The center, by drawing together representatives from a wide network of agencies, advocacy groups, businesses, agribusiness, tribal governments, university researchers, and others helps to find long-term solutions to policy conflicts in Washington State, and enhances the region's capacity for effective, sustainable policy-making and problem solving.
Jon has held management and policy positions in several federal agencies and has consulted for many public and nonprofit agencies in the Northwest. He chairs a council dealing with whistleblower issues at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and recently served as Executive Director of the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Task Force on Excellence in State and Local Government Through Labor-Management Cooperation. He is the author of Bargaining Beyond Impasse and Managing People in Public Agencies as well as other works on conflict resolution.
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