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Dr. Novak helps organizations, leaders, and students find actionable answers to soft issues. He coaches in the areas of leadership breakthrough, organizational strategy, innovation, teamwork, and human/organizational performance. He also has deep skills in strategic management, organizational change, organizational culture, organizational networks, collaborative leadership, communication, and marketing.

Dr. Novak coordinates and teaches in the Master’s of Science in Leadership program at South University, where he supports South’s students as they are becoming successful leaders—fully prepared to lead in tomorrow’s complex and turbulent organizational models. He also facilitates the leadership seminar in South’s Accelerated MBA program.

Dr. Novak holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and a secondary focus in Human Resource Development, an MBA from the University of Dallas, a BBA from the University of North Texas, and a Six Sigma Green Belt certification. Occasionally he teaches graduate-level leadership and innovation at Texas Christian University and Texas Wesleyan University.

Dr. Novak has published book chapters and articles on leadership, collaboration, marketing, and human resources. He has presented at conferences around the world speaking about innovation, leadership, values, trust, organizational alignment, social/organizational networks, Healthcare 2.0., and the patient-provider interface.

His teaching, coaching, and consulting has provided value to organizations including Bell Helicopter, Williamson-Dickie, Samaritan House, Catholic Charities, UTA, TCU, IBM, Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas ISD, and several churches.

Previously, Dr. Novak spent 31 years at IBM in a broad range of leadership, sales, entrepreneurial, and international roles. In his last assignment at IBM, he negotiated strategic alliances among diverse partners spanning from start-ups to Fortune 100 firms. He then helped those new partners develop their organization’s strategy, marketing plan, education, and execution.

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