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Dr. Terry Armstrong to Lead Woodstock's Business Outreach
October, 2003 Terry Armstrong, a management consultant, spiritual director and former business professor, has been appointed a Senior Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center. He will direct Woodstock's Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business as well as the Woodstock Business Conference.
Dr. Armstrong comes to Woodstock with a uniquely diverse background. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1967 with a degree in philosophy, he spent two years in Colombia with the Peace Corps. Over the years he has worked as an independent consultant to business, non-profit organizations and government agencies in 13 countries. He was professor of management and then director of the MBA Program in the College of Business at the University of West Florida during the 1990s.
He has taught classes and led seminars in management and business ethics at numerous colleges and corporations, and is author of An Experiential Approach To Modern Management (HarperCollins, 1996). He earned his doctorate in social science and philosophy at The Union Institute in Cincinnati.
Two years ago, Dr. Armstrong completed a 9-month residency program in Ignatian spiritual direction at the Jesuit Center for Religious Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and continues to provide spiritual direction as a layperson.
Among other tasks, Dr. Armstrong will work with local coordinators of the Woodstock Business Conference, which seeks to promote a sense of calling among business leaders and has 20 chapters around the country.
He will help the coordinators develop materials to facilitate spiritual and ethical reflection at their meetings. He is also overseeing an effort to develop publications based on the experiences of business people who take part in the monthly discussions held by the chapters.
Dr. Armstrong invites readers and others interested in this part of Woodstock's work to contact him by email at wbc-wtc@georgetown.edu or by phone at (202) 687-6565.