June A. West

Education:  B.S. Ed., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; M.Ed., Kent State University; Ed.D., Lehigh University

June West joined the faculty at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 1997 where she is the Marjorie R. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration. Dr. West specializes in organizational communication, leadership, strategy, and change management. She teaches in Darden’s MBA, Executive MBA, Executive Education programs, iLab Innovation Incubator and the Center for Global Initiatives, where she offers for students a global course that takes place in Bahrain, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. She is the Co-Chair of The Darden Leadership Communication Council, a group of executive and organizational communicators from the business, government, civil society, media, and academic sectors. She serves on UVA's Faculty Senate and is UVA’s Faculty Liaison to the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Dr. West leads a Darden faculty team that teaches in the summer orientation program for the Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows Program. This program places active-duty military officers in corporations for a nine-month fellowship. She is the faculty leader for the Gulf Development Program, a partnership with the Bahrain Institute for Banking and Finance that brings senior executives from the Gulf region to Darden for a two-week leadership program.

At Darden, she enjoys the entrepreneurial culture and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues throughout UVA on curriculum design for worldwide initiatives. Dr. West was instrumental in the inception of the Partnership for Leaders in Education (PLE), a program with UVA’s School of Education, and served as the academic director. The success of the PLE led Dr. West working with several universities to develop their own school turnaround programs. Today, her focus is with state superintendents of education and their senior cabinet administrators. She is the Darden Faculty Lead for the joint MBA/M.Ed. program. She also has served as the co-director of the Leadership Partners in Healthcare Management, a joint program with UVA’s Schools of Nursing and Medicine.

Her work in education includes teaching at both the college and pre-collegiate levels. Dr. West was a member of the Study of Schooling, one of the first comprehensive research studies of pre-collegiate education. She designed and directed the Center for Business Communication at Lehigh University where she also was a faculty member. As an assistant professor of communication at Seton Hall University, she served on the design teams for the University’s virtual university and its executive graduate degree program in corporate communication. With her late husband Dr. Fred West, she founded the Hobbs School, a Washington, DC, based pre-school for children with autism.

Prior to her academic career, she was the senior editor at both the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio and the Center for Business and Economic Research at The University of Tennessee. Dr. West is a first-generation college graduate and holds degrees from The University of Tennessee, Kent State University, and Lehigh University. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has two sons.