Owen Phelps, Ph.D.
Dr. Phelps has been a consultant on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Communications Committee since 2003, and he is also a member of the Catholic Communications Campaign advisory committee. Over the years he also has served as a consultant to several church organizations from Vermont to Texas. In 2008 he was accorded the papal honor of Knighthood in the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
He is an adjunct faculty member in Cardinal Stritch University’s College of Business & Management, and he is also on the faculty of the Rockford Diocesan Theological Institute.
From 1983-2007, Owen served as Director of Communications & Publications for the Catholic Diocese of Rockford, where he was also associate publisher of the diocesan newspaper, The Observer. For several years he was a member of the diocese’s Justice & Peace Commission and an ex officio member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. He continues to co-host a weekly live, call-in radio program with Bishop Thomas G. Doran, head of the Rockford Diocese.
Owen was certified as a master catechist by the Rockford Diocese in the 1980s and soon after was awarded the Bishop O'Neill Award in Catechetics for “distinguished service to the Word of God in religious education programs.” More recently he has served as a consultant and offered programs to faith-based professional organizations in Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Burlington, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Green Bay, Lexington, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Rockford, Santa Clara and several other smaller cities in the U.S.
Owen’s newest book, The Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus: Introducing S3 Leadership—Servant, Steward, Shepherd, will be published by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing in the spring of 2009. He has written several articles and contributed to two books devoted to issues of faith-based organizational performance: Mission, Marketing & Management: Development Guide for Diocesan Newspapers (1991) and The Mission and Future of the Catholic Press (1998). He is also author of two other books, The Believer’s Edge and The Secret of Wealth, and he currently writes a leadership column for The Catholic Journalist, a general interest column for The Observer, and he serves as publisher of The Catholic Leader e-newsletter.
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