Rodger Dean Duncan

Rodger Dean Duncan (born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American author and business consultant whose work focuses on leadership, human performance, and the strategic management of change.

Consulting After working at F.I. duPont, Glore Forgan & Co., Duncan started his consulting career in 1972. His first client was the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He served as communication counsel to cabinet officers in two White House administrations. He later served in a similar capacity for Republican U.S. Senators Richard Lugar, Orrin Hatch, and Howard Baker.

Another of Duncan's early corporate clients was the Campbell Soup Company, which hired him in 1978 to head the company's global communications operations.

Education Duncan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University where he studied American literature and psychology. At Baylor he was active in student government, president of his senior class, president of the Sigma Tau Delta literary society, and an honor student.

He earned a Master of Arts in communications degree at Brigham Young University, where he also served on the faculty in the Communications Department and was managing director of University Publications.

Duncan earned a Ph.D. in organizational communication at Purdue University. He also served on the Purdue faculty, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Early career While an undergraduate at Baylor University, Duncan started a career in journalism as a staff writer for The Waco Tribune-Herald. Duncan later served as religion editor of The Salt Lake Tribune. comedian Jack Benny, Baroness Maria von Trapp, historian Arnold Toynbee, artist Norman Rockwell, and anthropologist Margaret Mead.

In 2002, Duncan wrote Leadership for Saints, a book intended for lay leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but also applicable for a wider audience.

Duncan lives with his wife Rean Robbins in their family home just outside Kansas City, Missouri. They are parents of four grown children and have 12 grandchildren.