John Garger is a behavioral scientist and business owner in upstate New York. He has published empirical and theoretical papers in scholarly journals on the subjects of organizational behavior, leadership, technology acceptance, and methodology. His primary research and teaching interests include leadership, technology in the workplace, and education. John's research has been featured in various proceedings of national and regional conferences. John's main focus is building his computer hardware business and working as a freelance academic author, copyeditor, and copywriter. John's expertise includes organizational behavior, leadership, statistics, methodology, research design, and micro-computer design. An avid student of classical Latin, John has enjoyed studying the language along side English for over twenty years. John is currently learning conversational French.
John earned his M.B.A. from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton with a concentration in leadership and consulting. He holds a B.S. in Marketing and an A.A.S. in Management, Marketing, and Sales. The Center for Leadership Studies bestowed a leadership certificate on John in 1999. A recent publication earned him a Reader's Choice Award and another paper earned 'Lead Article' status in a scholarly publication. For the past twelve years John has been a member of ΟΔΚ, the national leadership honors society.
John is sole proprietor of a computer manufacturing and consulting company in upstate New York. In 1998, John was awarded a doctoral assistantship in which he completed all coursework in an AACSB-accredited organizational behavior program. From 1998-2002 he was a research assistant for the Center for Leadership Studies located at Binghamton University (SUNY). From 2000-2001, John taught organizational behavior at Binghamton University and in 2000 he taught marketing and human resource management at Luzerne Community College.