Morgan McCall is a Professor of Management and Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. In addition to his faculty responsibilities, he works with the Office of Executive Development in the design and delivery of executive programs, teaches in the International Business Education and Research (IBEAR) program, and is affiliated with the Center for Effective Organizations. Prior to joining USC Morgan was Director of Research and a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Executive leadership, especially early identification, assessment, development, and derailment of executives, is the primary focus of Morgan's research and writing. His two most recent books, Frequent Flyers: Developing Global Executives, co-authored with George Hollenbeck (November 2001), and Advances in Global Leadership, Volume II, co-edited with William Mobley (July 2001), extend his work to the international stage. Prior to these, he wrote High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (translated into Japanese, Dutch, and Thai, and winner of the 1998 Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring). He co-authored The Lessons of Experience, a book on how executives develop that won the "New Perspectives on Executive Leadership Award" and was a MacMillan Book Club and "Fast Track" selection. He also co-authored of Whatever it Takes: The Realities of Managerial Decision Making, Leadership: Where Else can We Go?, and Key Events in Executives' Lives. His career contributions were honored recently when he received the Marion Gislason award for "Leadership in Executive Development" from the Executive Development Roundtable at Boston University.

An active speaker and consultant, Morgan has worked with a variety of organizations including Amgen, Boeing, British Airways, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, Royal Bank of Canada, and Toyota Motor Sales. He is on the faculties of SunU and the University of Toyota. In addition to conducting workshops and seminars on executive leadership, he works with senior executives to develop corporate strategies and systems for executive development. He led the team that created Looking Glass, Inc., a simulation of managerial work widely used in corporate management development. Based on a recent study of the early identification of global executives, Morgan, Gretchen Spreitzer, and Jay Mahoney developed a multi-rater instrument, ProspectorJ, to provide managers with feedback on dimensions related to "openness to learning."

After receiving a B.S. with honors from Yale University, Morgan earned his Ph.D. from Cornell. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has served on numerous editorial boards, including the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Human Resource Development Quarterly, and Executive Development Journal.