Dr. C. Jack Orr's Web Site

  C. Jack Orr

 Students, clients, friends and fellow travelers along life's way: Welcome to my web site, a glimpse of what I do, which in one form or another is education.  If you have an uncanny love for education, leadership, philosophy and all things bright and beautiful, stop by from time-to-time. Perchance, we can have a conversation. Send me an e-mail: jorr@cjorr.com

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Professor Emeritus  -  West Chester University

Professor - West Chester University

Associate Professor of Communication -  Hope  College 

Assistant Professor of Communication - The  University of Delaware

Follow my Teaching Communication blog

 West Chester University

 Director - C. Jack Orr & Associates

Consultant to more than  fifty clients including DuPont,

Merrill-Lynch, Centocor, QVC and the United States Chamber of Commerce





Merrill-Lynch Training Center

Princeton, NJ

I hold graduate degrees from Temple University (PhD)

and Northwestern University (MA)

I have published in the

Quarterly Journal of Speech,

Communication Monographs, Communication Education

and Communication Studies  and co-edited 

C. Orr & L. Williamson (Eds.). (1977), Interpersonal Communication. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt

Temple University

 My Mission

  To help students and clients develop economically, socially and spiritually by thinking in new terms about problems and possibilities. 

 Philosophical Influences

"In some periods of history, and in some places of his life cycle ...[a person] needs a new ideological orientation as surely and as sorely as he must have food and air."

Erik Erikson

My philosophical orientation is stronly influenced by 

Karl Popper

and

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts for the Day:

"No plan survives contact with the enemy...No sales plan survives contact with the customer. No lesson plan survives contact with teenagers."

Chip & Dan Heath, Made to Stick, p. 27.

            "We live in the universe, not just on Maple  Avenue."

Mary Caroline Richards

"Human relationships are not rocket science-they are far, far more complicated"

James W. Pennebaker, The Secret Life of Pronouns, p. 43.

"One of the things that gives our lives meaning and purpose is taking the time to encourage and inspire others.  The word 'encourage' comes from the French word 'le coeur' which means heart.  To encourage someone means to help that person honor what his or her heart is calling them to do.  The word 'inspire' comes from the Latin word'spiritus' which means spirit or breath.  To inspire someone is to help them open to spirit or God or to experience the breath of life.

You don't have to do things to encourage or inspire others.  We all have way

 too much 'doing' in our lives. 

The most powerful way to touch people is through your presence, through living  authentically with joy and integrity." 

Judith Neal

Director, The Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

 University of Arkansas

"You are the author of your own life. No one else is going to do it for you."

Warren Bennis

Leadership Crucibles