Jeffrey F. Sherlock

Adjunct Faculty

(260) 358-7331
jsherlock@huntington.edu

Dr. Jeffrey F. Sherlock is Emeritus Professor of International Business and Management at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, USA.  Jeff is also an adjunct instructor at Huntington University and LCC International University.  He spent a sabbatical year teaching at Xi’an International Studies University in Xi’an, China and co-taught a course at Hunan University of Technology and Business.

Previous work experience includes working with The Cyril Scott Printing Company in Lancaster, Ohio, from 1978-1990; his responsibilities included quality control, customer service, production planning, and sales.  Jeff worked in Macau SAR, China from 1990-1992 teaching and directing the business operations of an English language program.  From 1993-1997, Jeff was assistant professor of business at Huntington University as well as the director of the EXCEL Program.  He taught 10 years at Tri-State University (Angola, Indiana), serving for 5 of those years as Dean of the Ketner School of Business.  He has also done consulting work in a variety of community and business settings – United Way, Columbia City Homeless Shelter, Steuben County Leadership, Steuben County Community Foundation, and United Way of Huntington County.

Jeff’s research/service interests include:

  • Entrepreneurship, specifically as a platform for service.
  • Business as Service
  • Servant Leadership, particularly in a cross-cultural setting

International teaching/training/consulting activities include:

  • Applying Jim Collins’ Good to Great in a Chinese context (2017, 2018)
  • Training in Small Business Development, Yangon, Myanmar (2017)
  • Applying Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in a Chinese context, Xi’an, China (2016, 2017, 2018)
  • Global Marketing and Business Cultures course, LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • International Marketing, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha, China (2022). Co-taught with a Chinese professor.
  • International Business, Living and Learning Internationally, Rome, Italy (2022, 2023)
  • Training in Small Business Development (with students), Sierra Leone, West Africa (2012)
  • Understanding Globalization and E-commerce, Qinghai, China (2010)
  • Consulting on an agriculture business, Sierra Leone, West Africa (2010)
  • Consulting on island resort development (with students), Batam, Indonesia (2010)

Jeff graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor of business administration degree and a master of business administration degree. He received his doctorate in adult and community education from Ball State University where his dissertation was “The Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes in Management and Business-Related Adult Accelerated Degree Completion Programs.”

Jeff and his wife, Joan, reside in Huntington, Indiana where Joan retired from the Huntington City Library.  They have three grown sons.  Jeff enjoys reading, hiking, international issues, and computers.  He has traveled widely to a variety of countries including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Nigeria, Ecuador, Argentina, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Italy, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Canada.