Steve Titus J.D., Ph.D. (Tacoma, Washington) currently serves as vice president for Pacific Lutheran University. From 2002-2007, he served as president and distinguished professor of leadership and change for Midland Lutheran College. Additionally, he is co-creator and co-director of the Lutheran College and University Leadership Program and the Lutheran Leaders Program.
In addition, Steve is a certified professional coach and founder of the Presidential Leadership Group,LLC, an executive coaching and leadership enrichment firm committed to serving college and university leaders.
Steve is passionate about coaching, leadership, personal and purpose mastery, and the human side of enterprise.
Prior to joining Midland in 2002, Steve was executive assistant to the president at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and a tenured professor of leadership studies and organizational behavior at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) in Marshall, Minnesota. There he founded and directed the leadership studies program and the Leadership Development Institute.
Steve served as an attorney and commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1990-1995. He held several positions while on active duty, including legal advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, labor and employment law attorney on the Department of the Army Staff at the Pentagon, and as a trial defense counsel with the 3d Infantry Division in Wuerzburg, Germany during Operation Desert Storm.
Steve served as Minnesota's Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) from 1999-2002, and he was awarded the United States Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal in 2002.
Steve holds the B.S. degree in business administration from Southwest Minnesota State University, the J.D. degree from Marquette University Law School, and the Ph.D. degree in higher education and strategic leadership from the University of Virginia, where he was a Governor's Fellow. Steve also holds a diploma from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School and certificates from the Advanced Leadership Education Program at the Kennedy School of Government and the Institute for Educational Management at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute, a member of the International Coach Federation,and is an inaugural member of the International Leadership Association.
Steve and his wife, Sara, live in Tacoma, Washington with their two daughters.
