He was the Principal Evaluation Consultant to Quest International and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (1995-98) and for a Cross-Age Tutoring Program, funded by the Christie McAuliffe Foundation, at Jackson High School (MI, 1997-98). He also served as the Evaluation Consultant for the J.C. Nalle Community School in Washington, DC (1998-1999). He is currently Co-Principle Investigator for a three-year study of the impacts of service-learning on high school students, their schools, and their communities (funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service).

Since 1988, he has been Program Design and Evaluation Consultant for four suburban Columbus school districts, assisting teachers in incorporating service-learning and School-to-Work strategies into the school curriculum, K-12, and evaluating resulting programs. He has been a presenter on service-learning at numerous workshops sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education and the National Youth Leadership Council and is the author of a service-learning training manual (1998) for the Ohio Department of Education. He was the Evaluation Consultant for the Ohio Partners in Character Education (2000-2002) and now directs the service-learning curriculum integration project for the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative through the John Glenn Institute at The Ohio State University.

From 1986 to 1990 he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the Ohio State University, where he taught graduate courses on “The Theory and Practice of Faith Development in College Students,” “College Student Development,” “Issues in Cross-Cultural Student Development,” and “Integrating Community Youth Service in Middle School Programs.” He also designed and taught an undergraduate course in Comparative Studies entitled “Science, Technology and Human Values.”

He is also on the teaching faculty of the Wellstreams Program in Columbus, where he leads workshops on the theory and practice of adult faith development. He has also done numerous workshops for churches and other groups on mission clarification, goal setting, restructuring, and program design and evaluation. He uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator extensively in workshops on teaching and learning, team building, conflict management, and spiritual development.