Steven K. Rogstad – Senior Consultant

Steven K. Rogstad is an author, speaker, instructor and scholar of Abraham Lincoln.  He is the principal of Kenson LLC, Racine Wisconsin and Co-creator of The Lincoln Experience – Leadership Offsite Training. Click here for a 1 minute video preview.

Mr. Rogstad is the author of “Among the Badgers – Sites associated with Abraham & Mary Lincoln in Wisconsin” published by Millhouse Press (Oct 2020).

Click here to contact Steven to learn more about ways to can apply the Leadership Lessons of Lincoln by partnering with iTrainManagersforSuccess to boost your organization. He also serves as the Director of Development for the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. Mr. Rogstad’ s avocation has been the study of Abraham Lincoln. For 30 years he has taught seminars and courses on Lincoln-related topics at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (Kenosha, WI), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Kenosha Civil War Museum, and the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center. He served as an editor for the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin and the Lincoln Herald – a journal of Lincoln studies published by Lincoln Memorial University at Harrogate, Tennessee. He is the author of numerous publications related to Abraham Lincoln and his era. 

In 1997 he established the Lincoln Monument Restoration Project, which coordinated the restoration of Albert Louis Van den Berghen’s statue of Abraham Lincoln in Racine. He has delivered dedicatory addresses for the Abraham Lincoln/Mary Todd Monument in Racine’s East Park (1993), and the Lincoln Monument in Burlington (2014). In 2009, Mr. Rogstad’s “Lincoln Moments” were broadcast daily on Newstalk 1400 WRJN as part of the national Lincoln Bicentennial celebration.

Mr. Rogstad holds a BA in Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and is the author of numerous reviews and articles related to his own Lincoln research. He wrote introductions to The Gettysburg Soldiers’ Cemetery and Lincoln’s Address by Frank L. Klement (1993) and The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War by Frank L. Klement (1998). He was co-editor for The Many Faces of Lincoln (1997) and edited/ introduced Lincoln’s Critics: The Copperheads of the North by Frank L. Klement (1999). He is the author of Companionship in Granite: Celebrating the Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln Monument (1998) and Racine’s Lincoln Legends: Laying Three Myths to Rest (2014).

In April 2008, he was appointed by Governor James Doyle to the Wisconsin Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, serving as Secretary and as a member of the Markers & Memorials Committee. Email Steven at  steve@mgrsuccess.com