Barbara C. Crosby

Barbara C. Crosby is associate professor emerita at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. She has taught and written extensively about leadership and public policy, cross-sector collaboration, women in leadership, media and public policy, and strategic planning. She is a fellow of the Leadership Trust in the United Kingdom and in 2016 was a visiting fellow with the Australia New Zealand School of Government.

She is the author of Teaching Leadership: An Integrative Approach (Routledge, 2017) and co-author with John M. Bryson of Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World (Jossey-Bass, 2005). She is co-editor of Public Value and Public Administration (Georgetown Press, 2015) and Creating Public Value in Practice (CRC Press, 2015). She was recently awarded the Leslie Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). She talks about her most recent book at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=888&v=QHk9kqhl2zs.