Dr. Terry L. Price

Dr. Terry L. Price specializes in leadership ethics and moral psychology. Price is a philosopher with a grounding in psychology, and his teaching and research focus on problems in applied ethics. He was a student of Joel Feinberg at the University of Arizona and studied politics on a John M. Olin Fellowship at the University of Oxford. In addition to teaching leadership ethics, he teaches courses on influence and critical thinking.

His latest book, Leadership and the Ethics of Influence, was published by Routledge in 2020. He uses philosophy and leadership studies to show how leaders across different contexts can be justified in getting followers to do things. He is also the author of Leadership Ethics: An Introduction and Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership, both published by Cambridge University Press.

Price is co-editor of the three-volume International Library of Leadership, The Quest for Moral Leadership: Essays on Leadership Ethics, The Values of Presidential Leadership, Executive Power in Theory and Practice, and The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement. His work has appeared in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Leadership and the Humanities, Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, The Leadership and Organization Development Journal, and American Philosophical Quarterly.

In 2005, he launched Jepson at Cambridge, a summer program that offers students the opportunity to study leadership and law at Cambridge University’s Emmanuel College. During the 2006-07 academic year, he was visiting associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a fellow at the Parr Center for Ethics.

For a decade, Price served as associate dean for academic affairs in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies. He is a former member of the board of directors of the International Leadership Association, as well as a founding editor of Jepson Studies in Leadership. He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Ethics and Leadership Quarterly. He is co-director of the Jepson School's Gary L. McDowell Institute. In 2025, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia presented him with an Outstanding Faculty Award, the highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities.