Larry Barton
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Boston College Tufts University Boston University The American College |
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Laurence Barton more commonly known as Larry Barton is an American risk management consultant, author and professor. He served as the president of The American College from 2003 to 2013. Concurrent with his role at The American College, he is a trainer at The FBI Academy and at The U.S. Marshals Service.
Barton is considered an expert in threat assessment and workplace violence prevention and mitigation. Since 1987, he has worked as consultant with many organizations for mitigating threats in their workplace. He has written four books and has contributed chapters to several others. Since 2005, he has been on the editorial board of Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.
Barton graduated from Arlington Catholic High School in Massachusetts in 1974 and received his AB in Speech and Communications from the Boston College in 1978. In 1979, he joined Boston College as adjunct professor of communications. While working at the Boston College, he enrolled for Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) in International Business at Tufts University, completing his degree in 1981. In 1983, he received his Ph.D. from Boston University in International Relations and Public Policy.
Barton continued teaching at the Boston College till 1986 and joined the Harvard Business School as lecturer in Management Communication in 1987. While he was teaching at Harvard Business School, he noticed that during the market's crash, many of his students who were Wall Street executives remained stoic. Their response to the market crash, impressed Barton and he decided to study how executive teams responded to crises. Subsequently, he started focusing his research and work on crisis and threat management. He left Harvard in 1989 and joined University of Nevada, Las Vegas as associate professor of Management. He received three First Interstate Bank research grants on crisis management. After leaving UNLV in 1993, he joined Pennsylvania State University in 1994 as associate professor of Management and Organization.
In 1995, Barton joined Motorola as Vice President of Issues Management and later joined the company's semiconductor products sector where he managed regional teams in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 1999, he left Motorola to join DeVry University as the president and chief academic and business officer and served there for two years, when in 2001, he joined the Heald College as president and CEO.
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