Dr. Kurt S. Takamine is currently theChief Academic Officer/Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Azusa Pacific Online University. He holds the rank of Professor and is published ...visualizza altroDr. Kurt S. Takamine is currently theChief Academic Officer/Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Azusa Pacific Online University. He holds the rank of Professor and is published in various peer-reviewed leadership journals. Kurt is the former interim Dean of Business and Professional Studies at Brandman University (2008–2011), overseeing a twenty-five-campus distributed system. As an organizational consultant and trainer, Kurt has consulted, trained, and/or conducted research with Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, IBM, Shell Oil, United States Postal Service, American Express, Capital One, Microsoft, GE, and other Fortune 500 companies in leadership development and organizational change.
Kurt has served as an associate pastor with Trinity Church of the Nazarene in Monterey Park, California, and is the senior pastor of New Wine Ministries, Los Angeles. He received his doctorate in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University, his MA in theology and ethics from Azusa Pacific University, a BA in social ethics from the University of Southern California, and did post-graduate work at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Dr. Takamine has received the Distinguished Educator of the Year Award from the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, the Outstanding Teacher Award for the School of Business and Professional Studies, Brandman University, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pepperdine University. He served as the vice-chair for the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership (2008-2011), and is currently a board member for the Engstrom Institute.visualizza meno