Biography

Sheldon Steinhauser is associate professor of sociology at The Metropolitan State College of Denver, where he teaches current social issues, introduction to aging, contemporary issues in aging and frequently supervises a number of student interns. He began teaching part-time at Metro in 1969, with his regular appointment to the faculty coming in 1971. In 1991, he studied public policy issues on aging in seven countries during a Sabbatical leave.

Recognized as a national expert on prevention of age discrimination in the workplace and effective management of an age diverse workforce, he is president of Sheldon Steinhauser & Associates, Inc., a diversity consulting firm specializing in issues arising from the global age transformation impacting businesses and organizations, and the growing dependence on the quality, skill and work ethic of older workers. Among topics he has presented are: Best Practices for Attracting and Retaining a Quality Age Diverse Workforce; Building Bridges Across Generations: The New Workplace Culture; Global Aging, Healthy Aging and Life Expectancy; Countering Myths and Stereotypes About Older Adults and Generation X; Motivating and Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce; Living to be 100: What the Studies Tell Us.

Steinhauser has been interviewed for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and US News and World Report. National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" featured a workshop he co-presented for US WEST (now QUEST) in Seattle this Spring. His articles on age bias have appeared in such publications as HR Magazine (Society for Human Resource Management), July, 1998; HR Focus (American Management Association International), August, 1998; Business & Aging Networker (Business Forum on Aging, American Society on Aging), October, 1998, Managing Diversity, January, 1999 and "Aging Today," ASA, September-October, 1999. He has conducted training workshops for major corporations and the 1997 and 1998 Colorado EEO/AA conferences, and diversity awareness training at Denver International Airport, including ageism, racial, ethnic, new immigrant and sexual harassment issues.

Steinhauser has devoted his career to teaching and to building consensus while improving community and intergroup relations. He was praised editorially by The Denver Post as "The Gentle Lion" for his long career as a human rights agency executive. He served in various local, regional and national positions with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and as Executive Vice President of the Allied Jewish Federation of Denver. Consultant activities still include development and endowment building in the non-profit sector.

Professional recognition includes: Honorary Doctorate in Public Service, Regis University. Delegate, White House Conference on Aging, 1995. Awards from the NAACP, Latin-American Research and Service Agency (LARASA), Colorado ML King Holiday Commission, Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Anti-Defamation League. Memberships include: Public Policy Committee, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education; Section on Aging, American Sociological Association; American Society on Aging; Colorado Gerontological Society; American Arbitration Association's Rocky Mountain Advisory Council (and listed on AAA's arbitrators' panel); Equal Opportunity Advisory Council, MSCD; Editorial Advisory Board, Sustainable Communities Review, University of North Texas; Advisory Board, Regis University Institute on the Common Good.

He has presented papers on aging issues at national meetings of the American Society on Aging and its constituent unit, the Business Forum on Aging, "The Aging Planet" Conference and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. His presentation on "New Perspectives on Aging, Work and Retirement" was a poster session at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific meeting in November, 1999. Other presentations include the American Society on Aging - The National Council on the Aging, 2001 - 2005 and the Gerontological Society of America, 2002.

Steinhauser is married to Jan, former arts administrator and educator, now an artist-sculptor. They have five children and seven grandchildren.