Joe Deklinski, DBA | Corporate Faculty | Harrisburg University of Science & Technology
About Speaker
"Dr. Joe Deklinski – Biographical Information Joe is a corporate faculty member at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology specializing in project and risk management, procurement, agile lean transformational leadership, and organizational leadership and emotional intelligence. Joe has also been a student of change management and innovation for many years. He has spent 35 years working within PA state government and 15 of those years working with state agencies to create positive change. Joe focused his efforts on building commitments to change, helping agencies redesign business processes, and to involve staff in creating environments for providing extraordinary customer service and innovation. He brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding of government, its culture, and what it takes to enhance its business functions. In addition to his change management activities, Joe has also led a variety projects which included single internal projects to more complex interagency projects involving team members from multiple agencies. Joe has worked with all Commonwealth agencies by providing change management training, facilitating and managing cross agency projects and to redesign business processes within the Department of Human Services, Revenue, Insurance, Conservation and Natural Resources, Office of Administration, and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. Joe holds a Doctor of Business Administration with a concentration in Organizational Leadership from Northcentral University, a Master of Public Administration from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Joe is an elected borough council member in Wormleysburg where he, and his wife Karen reside, along with their Labradoodle. They have two grown children (Lukas and Annie) and one grandchild. "