Profile
John Viola is a Visiting Fellow and Graduate Faculty member at the John McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. With over a dozen years experience teaching at the graduate level using the Socratic method, he also serves as a public management training consultant for the state of Massachusetts and the Office of Personnel Management in Washington for federal and agency programs around the nation. John is also a faculty member of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he regularly leads discussions on strategic political public management for senior federal executives and international fellows. He also serves on the faculty for the state of New York’s senior executive public management program, and is a strategic public management consultant for their agencies. John has worked with private and non-profit organizations on strategic management principles for the public sector, and is enthusiastic about his approach to case study methodology and applied public administrative theory. In addition, John is a consultant with the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts, and is a core management faculty trainer for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services and its agencies. He has previously served as a legislative aide with the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a public policy educational advisor to the Senate President. John was also part of an executive exchange program with Australia, where he discussed issues of federal and state environmental protection efforts, as well as educational initiatives for public policy, public management and public administration programs in that country. John received his M.S.P.A. from the University of Massachusetts and is a graduate of Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.