Richard A. McConnell

Lt. Col. Richard A. McConnell, D.M., U.S. Army, retired, is a Professor in the Department of Army Tactics, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1989 and served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army in artillery units in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. He received his Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership from the University of Phoenix, where his dissertation was an institutional microethnographic examination of the Staff Group Advisor role at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. He served as the principal investigator for two studies at CGSC: one on writing improvement and another testing a narrative story science approach to improving creativity.[1] [1] Improving creative thinking through narrative practice, By Richard A. McConnell, Jared Kite, Angela Samosorn, Andrew Shoffner, Kenneth Long, Jacob Mong, Angus Fletcher, Ryan Strong, Morgan Cornstubble, published in conference proceedings in Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, Volume 50, March 2023. Improving Creative Thinking through Narrative Practice | Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning: Proceedings of the Annual ABSEL conference (tdl.org)