Mr. Joseph P. Shadle

Joe Shadle, serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Mission and Identity at Xavier University. His team ensures that Xavier’s Jesuit Catholic mission and identity are woven throughout the fabric of the university. Through a comprehensive approach, they help faculty, staff, and students integrate Ignatian principles and spiritual practices into their work, studies, and daily lives. Xavier's mission-aligned sustainability efforts are also part of the Center's focus. Additionally, the Center runs the university’s most popular website, www.jesuitresource.org, which provides digital and print resources related to Jesuit education and spirituality across the globe. 

Joe earned a Master of Divinity and M.A. in Biblical Studies from Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology and an M.B.A. from Xavier University. He is an adjunct faculty member of Xavier’s Williams College of Business teaching the graduate course Spirituality and Leadership. He also served for six years on the faculty of the Athenaeum of Ohio and more than twenty years at Thomas More University.

Joe supports the work of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) as online workshop coordinator for the Ignatian Colleagues Program. In that role, he supports the development of the online curriculum which serves as the foundation for forming senior administrators and faculty throughout the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and Belize.

In 2008, Joe was nominated for the JASPA Ignatian Medal for New Professionals in Jesuit Student Affairs. He was appointed by Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk to the Archdiocesan Lay Ecclesial Ministry Task Force from 2003-2008, to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Worship Commission from 1999-2005, and to the Committee on Recruitment/Retention of Lay Ministers from 2001-2004. In 1997, he was presented with the Award for Educational Excellence from the National Association of Parish Catechetical Directors.

Joe currently chairs the Clinical Pastoral Education Advisory Committee at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. He is a popular speaker and retreat director specializing in scripture, education, spirituality, and leadership.