Jon Welty Peachey

About:

Jon joined the Gordon administration and faculty in 2022 and serves as Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Sport Management and Leadership. He teaches courses in the sport management concentration. Before coming to Gordon, Jon was on the sport management faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at Texas A&M University.

Jon's research examines how sport for development programs should be best designed, managed, and led to achieve positive individual- and community-based outcomes. He is a Research Fellow with the North American Society for Sport Management, serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, as Associate Editor for the Journal of Sport Management, and is on the Editorial Boards of several other leading academic journals. Jon is a frequent invited keynote speaker and consultant internationally on leadership and sport for development. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, is the author of Managing and Leveraging Events published by Routledge, has edited a number of key handbooks, and has given over 150 presentations at academic conferences around the world. Prior to his work in academia, Jon served as a senior administrator in the international sport for development field for over a decade.