
Larry Erbert, PhD, is the Associate Director of the University Honors and Leadership (UHL) program, where he has served as a steering committee member and instructor since the program’s inception. Erbert has designed and taught a number of innovative courses in the UHL program including:
- Leadership and Conflict
- Leadership and Sustainability
- Leadership, Negotiation, and Bargaining
- Managing Change and Complexity in a Postmodern World
- Leadership, Organizational Consulting, and Knowledge Management
- Mindfulness and the Evolution of Consciousness
- He also teaches the year-long Senior Research Seminar.
Erbert is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver (since August 2007). His academic background includes work in Organizational Communication (organizational change, team-building, leadership, workplace conflict and negotiation), Relational Communication (relational dialectics, relational development, intimate and marital conflict), and Conflict, Negotiation, and Mediation.
Erbert has co-authored one book on Communication Theory, and authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in such outlets as:
- The International Journal of Business Communication
- Western Journal of Communication
- Journal of Social Psychology
- Communication Studies
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Small Group Research.
He also served as an Associate Editor (full editorial responsibilities) for the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships for six years. Erbert also served as the Director of the CLAS Sustainability Minor for three years. Since 2007, he has taught 29 different courses at CU-Denver.
Prior to his employment at CU Denver, he was a tenured faculty member at the University Texas at El Paso, where he founded and directed the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. His work in the institute included training and certifying mediators. Erbert was also a Research Fellow in the Sam Donaldson Center for Communication.
Erbert also works as a consultant with numerous organizations on a variety of topics. He has worked extensively with the U.S. Military designing and conducting workshops and academic classes on Leadership and Communication, and Leadership and Organizational Change. The purpose of these workshops and courses is to train military leaders (captains and lieutenants) for work in the private and public sectors.
He has also conducted numerous seminars in the areas of Leadership Skill Development, Communication Excellence, Public Speaking and Presentation Effectiveness, Team-Building and Organizational Development, Conflict Management (including leadership and conflict management/negotiation), Mediation Training and Certification, Negotiation Strategies for New Urbanism, Strategic Planning and Strategic Thinking, and others.