Jeremy D. Meuser was born and raised in the Detroit suburbs. After completing a bachelors’ in computer engineering at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering, Ann Arbor, he began a career in information technology (IT), which followed from 3 successful internships at Fortune 500 IT companies. He was the director of IT for the Orchard Lake Schools, taught high school and college level IT industry certification courses, and was a founding partner for an IT limited liability corporation in the State of Michigan. He was exposed to Organizational Behavior (OB) through a class at Wayne State University, and worked on course staff for the 7 subsequent semesters. This experience shifted his focus from machines in the organization to the people who comprise the organization. After completing a certificate in spirituality from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, and a degree in philosophy and 3 years of the program of priestly formation at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI, he discerned to devote his life to the study of the impact of leadership on individuals in organizations.
Jeremy has been a proactive research contributor in the OB/HR PhD program at UIC. Now a PhD candidate in his final year, Jeremy’s research program focuses on leadership and the impact of leadership upon the individuals who experience it. Servant leadership, differential leader treatment (leader-member exchange and idiosyncratic deals), and employee identification are his primary areas of interest. His work on servant leadership has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, The Leadership Quarterly, and The Oxford Handbook of Leadership in Organizations.