Biography:
Dan Koger, an associate professor of communication at Lindsey
Wilson College, has worked as a daily newspaper reporter, director
of communications for two of the world's largest corporations and a
consultant in change and innovation at corporations as diverse as
Johnson & Johnson and Morgan Stanley.
Dan is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of
Journalism. After four years as an officer in the Navy during
the Viet Nam War, Dan joined the staff of the Flint (Michigan)
Journal where he specialized in health affairs and feature
writing. His months-long investigation of substandard
ambulance services in Genesee County led to creation of modern
emergency medical systems in the Flint Fire Department and the
Genesee County Sheriff's Department. These systems are still
saving lives more than 30 years later. In his 10-year career at The
Journal, and the Capital Bureau of Newhouse Newspapers, Dan covered
everything from county courts to the state Legislature.
Dan earned a masters degree in American History and a doctorate
in American Studies from Michigan State University. Following
his graduate studies, he joined the Public Relations staff at
General Motors corporate headquarters in Detroit, where he spent
four years developing and implementing executive awareness and
training programs in employee communication. From GM,
he went to Weyerhaeuser Company in Tacoma, WA, where he spent four
years successfully merging organizational communication with modern
techniques for quality improvement and customer
satisfaction.
From Weyerhaeuser, Dan worked with several communication
consulting and training firms, assisting such clients as IBM,
Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley and Software AG, in projects
that sometimes lasted two years or more.
In early 2007 Dan completed a play about famed but aging wit
Dorothy Parker and her challenges teaching a college literature
class in Southern California. The play was performed by the
Isis Theatre Company in Idyllwild, CA, in June, 2007.
He joined the faculty at Lindsey Wilson College in the fall of
2007.
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