LDS Biographies

Richard J. McCaffery
M.A., Organizational Communications

Dick is a native of Brooklyn, NY. He majored in Communication Arts at Fordham University and earned a master's degree in Education from the State University of New York. Dick has designed and authored more than 50 communication and management development programs, taught hundreds of seminars and lectured extensively in this country and overseas. In 1981, he founded McCaffery Associates, a company focusing on communication, management and training issues for industry, government and the university communities. Before starting McCaffery Associates, Dick was a Marketing Manager, General Manager and Corporate Vice President with Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He also served the Federal Government as an Assistant Administrator with the Department of Agriculture (USDA), where he was the first person to serve as USDA's Ombudsman to Congress, under the Rural Development Act, representing rural interests in legislative areas. Since forming his own company, Dick has worked directly with Congress helping members develop effective public outreach processes and with Federal Agencies developing strategies for working with Congress. He also has held adjunct faculty positions with the University of Southern California's School of Public Administration, the University of Missouri's Cooperative Extension Service, the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Administration, the FBI Management Sciences Unit, the USDA Graduate School and the Defense Contract Audit Institute.

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