Faculty Spotlight

“My focus is innovation, execution and operations strategy; all critical factors for public and private organizations to make the leap from great idea to value creation. Prior to my academic career, I spent nearly 20 years in leadership and executive roles in the automotive and manufacturing sectors with Magna, Autosystems and DuPont, in projects and operations that took me around the world. I bring that combination of industry experience and academic analysis to my teaching.”

“I teach accounting, financial analysis, and auditing across undergraduate and graduate programs at Smith. In addition to my teaching experience, research on accounting quality, and contribution to standards development, I have lived the management side of these topics as a Financial Officer, Auditor, and Internal Auditor.”

“The international business landscape that Canadian firms have known for decades has been upended. Every organization needs to ensure their global strategy is aligned to the new world order. My research and teaching focus on global business strategy and international entrepreneurship. For more than a decade, I have worked in the classroom with business executives and prior to that worked in industry in executive and corporate legal counsel roles for publicly-traded and privately-held enterprises in the telecom and consumer packaged goods industries.”

“My research examines how firms make strategic financial and organizational decisions in competitive markets. I focus on entrepreneurial finance, studying how start-ups raise capital, how investor dynamics influence growth, and how financing choices shape long-term performance. I also analyze incentive design and performance evaluation, exploring how organizations can structure compensation and decision processes to foster innovation and accountability.

In the Global Online MBA class, I translate these economic insights into practical frameworks that help leaders evaluate investments, design effective organizations, and make disciplined strategic decisions in complex and uncertain environments.”

“As a specialist in organizational behaviour, my research and teaching focus on leadership, teams, people analytics, and human capital management. I teach across undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs at Smith and have consulted with leading private companies and professional associations.

The nature of the workplace is changing dramatically. People are increasingly working alongside intelligent machines and algorithms, while employee expectations and organizational structures continue to evolve. These shifts require leaders to think differently about how they engage, support, and empower their people. My goal is to help develop leaders who will shape the future of work, leaders who can inspire others, build meaningful cultures, and create organizations where both people and performance thrive. This includes developing a nuanced understanding of how to motivate individuals, build high-performing teams, and use data responsibly to improve both employee well-being and organizational performance.”

“My passion is optimizing the sweet spot between innovation, strategy, and systems. Through my teaching in graduate programs and executive education, my career in industry, and in my extensive consulting experience, I have identified the critical factors – and gaps – that determine whether an organization’s new initiative or a new venture will succeed.”

“My teaching focuses on the development of professional and effective communications skills for business people. Corporate leaders and recruiters consistently underscore the importance of communications ability for advancement to senior roles. Your best idea is only as good as your ability to share it with others. You must engage and persuade colleagues. You need to foster credibility. And you have to know how to distill meaning and implication from data. I have extensive experience teaching and consulting on communications effectiveness and look forward to working with Smith’s Global Online MBA students.”

“There has rarely been a more demanding time to design effective business strategy. Competitive landscapes are shifting, institutional pressures are intensifying, and AI is reshaping markets. Leaders must think holistically, integrating diagnosis, choice, and execution across the organization.

In my course, you will learn how to build coherent strategies that leverage and develop firm capabilities, respond intelligently to competitive and institutional forces, and generate sustained advantage. My teaching approach is evidence-based and application-driven, strengthening managerial judgment through business simulations, interactive cases, and AI-enabled tools that transform competitive complexity into strategic clarity and disciplined execution.”