Columbia, Mo. (Oct. 28, 2021) — There is an old saying that when opportunity knocks, you have to be willing to open the door. It was a literal knock at the door of Professor Jon Stemmle in early March 2018 that, three years later, has led to his new book, Engaging Employees Through Strategic Communication, published by Routledge.
In his position as the faculty chair of Strategic Communication in the Journalism School, Stemmle is often asked to meet with visitors. When Dean David Kurpius asked Stemmle to meet with one of his old friends, Mark Dollins, he didn’t think anything of it.
“I had done my homework on Mark and knew he had an amazing career in the corporate world,” Stemmle said of Dollins, who was coming off of C-suite communication positions at The Quaker Oats Company, PepsiCo and DuPont, to name a few. “It was honestly just a few meetings on my calendar. I thought it would be great to have students talk with Mark and show him what the school was about, but that’s about it.”
