“John Sibley Butler holds The Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business in the Graduate School of Business (Department of Management) and the Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship. He is the Director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Institute for Innovation and Creativity (IC2). His research is in the areas of organizational Behavior and entrepreneurship/new ventures/immigrant and minority entrepreneurship. His research appears in professional journals and books. For the last seven summers Professor Butler has occupied the Distinguished Visiting Professor position at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo Japan, where he lectured on new venture start-ups and general entrepreneurship.

Professor Butler has served as a consultant for many firms and the U.S. Military. At this time he is Management Consultant for State Farm Insurance Companies, with Corporate Headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. In this connection he has given lectures on general management issues of corporate America. He is also one of the distinguished professors who compose the Advisory Team of Governor George Bush’s 2000 Presidential Campaign.

Professor Butler has appeared on over 30 radio and television programs, including Eye On America (CBS Nightly News), The Jim Leher News Hour, CBS Radio Talk Show, The Osgood Report, and Public Radio. Also this year Professor Butler’s research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report and other newspapers and magazines across America. His books include Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black America: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics, All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way (With Charles C. Moskos -Winner of the Washington Monthly Best Book Award), Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship: The Continuous Rebirth of American Communities (with George Kozmetsky, Forthcoming) and Forgotten Citations: Studies in Community, Entrepreneurship, and Self-Help Among Black-Americans (with Patricia Gene Greene and Margaret Johnson, Forthcoming).”
–Source - IC2.org