Other research interests and work include:

Dr. Reckmeyer is Professor of Leadership & Systems at San Jose State University, as well as a Senior Fellow in the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. Bill was a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow (1988-1992) and has also been a three-time Salzburg Fellow (1995-1999).

He is a systems scientist and practitioner based in Silicon Valley whose consulting, research, teaching, and service during the past thirty years has focused on helping organizations and communities address complex concerns more effectively and responsibly. His expertise and experience is primarily in the following areas:

Systems Science & Cybernetics	Leadership Studies
US National Strategy	Strategic Change Management
Long Term Care	High Performance Teamwork
Higher Education	Leadership Development
Globalization	Facilitative Consulting

The core of Bill’s work centers on collaborative strategies to effect lasting systemic changes in problematic organizational, social, and public policy settings – with a main emphasis on integrating the full range of planning, development, and implementation activities required for success under turbulent conditions. His work is usually in the form of extended change projects with institutions in all sectors of society (public, private, academic, non-profit, and philanthropic), but also includes specialized talks, training, and executive coaching.

In addition to his on-going consulting with different organizational clients, Dr. Reckmeyer is co-director of two significant long-term efforts. The first involves a set of related projects to develop a more coherent National Strategy for the United States in the 21st Century, chiefly in terms of ways to integrate trade and security as the joint foundations for American policy; in recent years its focus has been on US-China relations. The second effort involves a set of related projects to develop programs of comprehensive Long Term Care services for the frail elderly, primarily in terms of ways to integrate medical and social/support services that can enhance the ability of seniors to age in home-like settings; in recent years its focus has been on specifics programs for publicly-funded residents in several leading California counties (Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Monterey, Santa Cruz).

A faculty member since 1977 at San Jose State, where he directed the world's first degree program in systems science, Bill has been a visiting professor at several major institutions of higher education in the US and Europe: the University of Southern California, University of Aveiro, University of Stockholm, University of St. Gallen, and Harvard University (where he helped establish the Harvard Institute for School Leadership). He is also a core faculty member in the California Agricultural Leadership Program, has served as National Program Consultant for the American Leadership Forum, and was a consultant to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for its National Fellowship Program and other leadership programming.

A past President of the American Society for Cybernetics, Dr. Reckmeyer has represented the US on the National Science Foundation’s "US-USSR Project on the Fundamentals of Cybernetics and Systems Theory" and was a member of the National Leadership Group of the American Council on Education for many years.

Bill has been an author, co-author, and editor of many publications and studies – including Revitalizing America: Developing a Coherent National Strategy for the 21st Century (1992), Leadership Readings (1995), Revitalizing America as a Trading Nation: DOD Information Systems for the 21st Century (1998); and Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change (2000). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of General Systems Yearbook and the American Editor of Systems Practice, and is currently on the editorial boards of Systems Research & Behavioral Science and the Journal of Leadership Studies.

Dr. Reckmeyer earned his BA in History from Randolph-Macon College, his MA and PhD in Russian Studies from American University, and completed several post-doctoral programs at Harvard University.