Dr. McElroy holds the undergrad degrees of B.S., Nuclear Engineering Technology and B.S., Organizational Management, in which he was honored as a Merit Scholar for academic excellence in the business management curriculum. He holds the graduate degrees of M.A., Organization Design and Effectiveness and M.A., Human and Organizational Systems. Dr. McElroy completed his doctoral work with research in executive development, specifically measuring the intellectual behavior of developed hierarchical stages of complex reasoning. Dr. McElroy is a former business owner and has extensive experience consulting to profit and non-profit organizations, including wide experience in American electric utilities, commercial nuclear power, and the biomedical industry (America’s blood banks).
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