Meet our Management Faculty

LeBlanc, John (Chair)
Schmidt, David
Walker, Ronald

John LeBlanc

Biography

Professor LeBlanc serves as Associate Professor of Management with the focus on teaching management, operations, advanced operations, supply chain management, and the Integrated Business Core Block. He spent thirty years in the business arena running various size operations and companies, along with teaching adjunct at such universities as Indiana University, Ball State University, Butler University, and Marshall University as his career took him throughout the Midwest. He held various management positions up to his last position as VP/General Manager. He started a consulting operation in 1997, Personnel and Process Solutions, Inc., where he assists businesses to improve their performance and value to their stakeholders. John has been honored as a member of Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who of American Business Leaders, has sat on various Boards as a Director, and worked internationally.

Interests

Family- a supportive wife of 41 years, two married sons, and five grandchildren
Sports fan enjoying St.Louis Cardinal baseball and playing golf
Serving Christ through various church functions
Mentoring students
Consulting-PPS, Inc.
Travel
Red Hot Sports Cars-NRCC

CU Support Activities

SIFE Sam Walton Fellow
Fit to be Tied Counselor
Advisor to Somewhere Forever
Ukraine SIFE "Emerging Entrepreneur" Advisor

Contact Information

via e-mail
phone: 937.766.4970
office: Milner 171
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David Schmidt

Dr. Schmidt serves as Associate Professor of Management and teaches Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, and Human Resource Management. He earned his M.A. in Human Resource and Organizational Development (1992), his M.B.A. (1995), and his PhD (2001) in Management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business.

Dr. Schmidt also has many years’ experience as a manager and entrepreneur in Nebraska. He is a member of several academic associations including the Academy of Management, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Christian Business Faculty Association, Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management (for which he is currently the Program Chair), and Society of Human Resources. He has published academic papers and presented at a number of National and International academic conferences including the Institute in Behavioral and Applied Management and the Academy of Management. His past publications have focused on Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and Organizational Change. Currently he’s focusing on Entrepreneurship Education as well as the cognitive processes of successful and unsuccessful Entrepreneurs. He has also taught in a variety of environments, including online, adult undergraduate and graduate for several Universities across the United States. In the past 2 ½ years he, along with others in the Business Department, have and continue to be involved in bringing large entrepreneurial students projects and business startups to Cedarville students.

He serves as a Sunday school teacher and leader at Far Hills Community church in Centerville, Ohio. He has several outside business interests including real estate. Dr. Schmidt also has significant family responsibilities related to having five grown children and currently two grandchildren.

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Ronald Walker

Biography

Born in Ashland, Ohio while my father and mother were still farming, our family soon moved to Elyria and then later to Bowling Green, Ohio as my Dad moved with Production Credit Association. I thank the Lord for the rich Christian heritage that has been my lot.

After graduating from Bowling Green High School, I went on to study at BGSU. My undergraduate degree was in mathematics. Following graduation from the University of Michigan with an M.S. in Actuarial Science, I worked at Lincoln National Life Insurance Company in Fort Wayne Indiana. I served with the U.S. Army in Germany before coming to Central State University near Cedarville in 1970. I met my wife Becky, a Cedarville graduate, here in Cedarville. Becky and I have three children; each has graduated from Cedarville. We have seven grandchildren at present.

Following doctoral study at Kent State University, we went to Great Falls, Montana to join the faculty at the University of Montana. UM offered an MBA program at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls for the missile officers. I have been at Cedarville since 1978. I was only the 4th full-time faculty member in Business Administration at the time. It has been exciting to see God work in bringing so many fine students and faculty colleagues to the 'ville as the program has mushroomed.

Grace Baptist Church in Cedarville has been an exciting home church for us. The Grace family has been a real source of encouragement and support in our walk with the Lord.

My Calling

While an undergraduate mathematics major at BGSU I never anticipated becoming a teacher; I was preparing for a career in the business and industry. After a short stint in business, the "opportunity to serve" with the military intervened and while stationed in Germany I began to wonder if God would rather that I have more of a ministry focus to my life. That is when I first started to consider the possibilities of teaching at a Christian college, perhaps in mathematics. Step by step God led me to the appropriate opportunities that prepared me to do so, in management science, the use of mathematics to enhance business decision-making. And finally to Cedarville in 1978. My wife is a Cedarville graduate who was always talking about the grand time she had at Cedarville, so it was not too surprising when God opened up an opportunity for us here in the ‘ville. We are so grateful for His direction and provision in our lives. It has indeed been a grand time.