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The Non-Profit Leadership Institute at Francis Marion University

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Clinical Professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Faculty Development in the University of South Carolina School of Medicine

 

             Dr. Morris J. Blachman has been a Management Consultant for more than twenty-five years.  He brings an unusual perspective to the management consultant field.  As a trained political scientist, having received his PHD from New York University, he understands the pervasiveness of power and politics in all organizations.  He helps his clients use their power productively in resolving major organizational, policy and personnel issues.

 

             Dr. Blachman has had extensive experience in assisting clients to engage in strategic management and planning.  He helps them assess their strengths and weaknesses and design solutions to their problems.  He has designed and conducted numerous workshops and training programs on management, leadership development and on competing effectively in the market place.  He has also provided consulting services on policy and business strategy.  In addition, he has given numerous talks on the impact of political and economic trends on American business and politics.

 

             Dr. Blachman has served as Acting Coordinator for Executive Development at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, was Co-Director of the Leadership South Carolina Program and recently designed the year long Executive Leadership Institute for the USC School of Medicine.  Dr. Blachman was a principal participant in developing and conducting the nation's first Minority Professional Development Program.  He appreciates America’s cultural diversity and understands how to deal with those issues diversity gives rise to in our organizations and the workplace.  To address those issues, he assists his clients in generating consensus development; in building coalitions among diverse groups; and in the design of appropriate sensitivity training.

 

             Dr. Blachman has developed considerable expertise in strategic planning and management; board development; conflict resolution; organizational development; and in how to deal effectively with politics in the workplace.  He has worked on these and other issues with a wide range of clients in the not-for-profit, for-profit and governmental sectors.  He has worked with many of South Carolina’s Social service agencies, and was the principal consultant for the S.C. State Health Improvement Plan’s strategic planning process.  He was also the principal consultant with the PACE Project (Promoting Accountability - Committed to Effectiveness), working with S.C. health and human service agencies.  In addition, he has been the principal consultant in forging several major public-private partnerships and alliances in South Carolina.

 

             Dr. Blachman has been engaged to lead the effort to address homelessness in the Midlands of South Carolina.  He organized the effort which resulted in a community-wide, broadly endorsed, 10 year plan: “Blueprint to Address Homelessness.”  Dr. Blachman is presently the lead consultant working to implement the plan.

 

             Dr. Blachman's major clients have included: Catholic Relief Services; the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State; the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina; FOMENTO, the Office of Economic Development of Puerto Rico; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; the United Way of S.C.; the South Carolina Hospital Association; the Duke Endowment; the Municipal Association of S.C.; the USC School of Medicine; Richland Memorial Hospital; the Graduate Medical Education Program of Richland Memorial Hospital; Kershaw County Medical Center; the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine of Richland Memorial Hospital and the USC School of Medicine; the Richland Memorial and Palmetto Health Foundations; the Palmetto Health Alliance; the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control; the Bryan Dorn Veterans Administration Medical Center; the Carolina Health Choice Network; the Richland-Lexington Airport Commission of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport; Carolina Cardiac Surgery Associates; Messerman & Messerman Co., L.P.A.; the Cleveland Bar Association; Rogers, Townsend & Thomas, PC; Lourie's, Inc.; Wholesale Electronics; Baker & Baker; L. B. Wannamaker Seed Co.; Southern Bell; Bob Capes Realty; the Daniel Management Center of the University of South Carolina; GHK International; Handpicked; the Alliance for South Carolina’s Children; Children’s Chance; Acercamiento Hispano; LRADAC; 301 Behavioral Health Systems; Springwood Lake Family Practice; Dorchester Alcohol and Drug Abuse Agency; Palmetto MobileNet; SCANPO; The Chester Telephone Company; West Carolina Telephone Cooperative and Midlands Business Leadership Group.

 

             Dr. Blachman earned his BA from Brandeis University, his MA in International Studies from the University of South Carolina, and his PHD in Political Science from New York University.  Dr. Blachman currently holds the positions of Clinical Professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Faculty Development in the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.  For twenty-three years Dr. Blachman taught in the University of South Carolina's Department of Government and International Studies, specializing in Latin America and United States foreign policy.  He was Senior Research Associate of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies of the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and has also taught at New York University, the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, and the Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 

             Dr. Blachman is a widely published author and lecturer.  His publications include academic articles and books as well as numerous Op-Ed pieces in major American newspapers.  His most recent book was Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial.  In addition, he has appeared on more than 150 television and radio interview shows.  Dr. Blachman served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, including a tour in Vietnam for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

 

Morris “Moss” Blachman