Roderick W. Gilkey is the Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership, a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and in the Goizueta Business School Department of Organization and Management. Dr. Gilkey specializes in issues of leadership, mergers and acquisitions, change management, and the consulting process.

His articles have appeared in numerous professional journals including: Journal of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Negotiation, Organization Dynamics, and Executive Excellence. In addition, he has served as an editorial consultant to New York Times and Fortune Magazine. Dr. Gilkey is co-author of a book on post-merger management entitled Joining Forces: Successfully Managing Mergers and Acquisitions, and he is a contributing author to Organizations on The Couch: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Organizational Dynamics.  He has recently contributed a chapter on leadership to Agility in Health Care, by Goldman and Graham, and has edited the Jossey-Bass book, The 21st Century Healthcare Leader.

Dr. Gilkey has provided consulting and executive education services to a broad array of healthcare, Fortune 500, and not-for-profit organizations including: Johnson & Johnson, the American Cancer Society, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Emory Clinic, the Atlanta VA, Beiersdorf, Arthur Andersen, AT&T, Bertelsmann Music Group, Coca-Cola, IBM, GE, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Department of State.