McLean has written over 600 publications and over 50 books and reports. He was a co-editor of Practicing Organization Development, 1st Ed. (a best-seller in the U.S.) and is author of Organization Development: Principles, Processes, Performance, recipient of AHRD’s Book of the Year Award. He co-edited a book in 2017: Urban Farming in Malaysia. He is a co-editor of a 7-book series on Asian Women in Leadership and is co-editor on each of the 7 books.
He earned two graduate degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University and an additional master’s degree from United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, MN. His major employment experiences have included Professor of Business Education, Adult Education, and HRD, University of Minnesota for 39 years; Senior Professor and Coordinator of International HRD Programs at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, for five years; “Renowned Scholar” in the Graduate School of Management at the International Islamic University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur for six months. He currently serves as full-time professor in the PhD OD program in the Graduate School of Management at Assumption University (Bangkok) and is an adjunct professor in the PhD program in Human Resource and Organization Development at the National Institute for Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand.
McLean is a past editor for Human Resource Development Quarterly, past general editor for Human Resource Development International, and past North American editor for the Journal of Transnational Management Development; consulting editor and executive editor for the Journal of Education for Business, consulting editor for Adult Education Quarterly, and associate editor for NIDA’s HROD Journal in Thailand. He has been a member of the management board for Human Resource Development International, as well as serving as an editorial board member for several journals internationally.
He was President for the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) and as President for the International Management Development Association (IMDA). He was an independent consultant, primarily in international HRD, training, organization development, strategic planning, and quality transformation, for 51 years.
He has received numerous recognitions for his teaching, research, and service, especially as Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota; induction into the Academy of HRD’s Scholar Hall of Fame; and receipt of an honorary Ph.D. in HRD from NIDA, bestowed by the Crown Princess of Thailand.
