Center for Professional Development

Center for Professional Development

Expert Speakers

Our subject matter experts and faculty members are available for Corporate Programs and Seminars, Conference/Keynote Speakers, and Panel Discussions. Please contact the Center if you are interested in any of our expert speakers listed below.

Michael Alleruzzo

Michael Alleruzzo

Visiting Instructor, Management

  • Coaching for Emerging Leaders
  • Cultivating Your Leadership
  • Brand Leadership and Personal Insight
  • Leading Effective Organizations
  • Excellence in Organizations
  • Resolving Conflict in the Workplace
  • Building and Sustaining Highly Effective Teams
  • Leading Change in Organizations
  • Managing for Service Excellence
  • Communication Strategies for Success
  • Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence
  • Motivating Employees to Superior Performance
  • Dealing with Difficult People
  • Handling Difficult Conversations
  • Culture and Excellence
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Walter Baker

Walter Baker

Associate Director for the Maguire Academy of Insurance and Risk Management

  • Commercial Insurance
  • Insurance Underwriting - Management/Professional Liability & Fidelity/Crime
  • Wall Street and Basic Finance
  • Christian Education Ministry for Children, Youth & Adults
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Marcello Balduccini

Marcello Balduccini, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Decision and System Sciences

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning and Related Technologies
  • Decision making and Problem Solving
  • Cybersecurity and Cyber Analytics
  • Workflow Automation
  • Cognitive Manufacturing
  • Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Understanding
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Ernest Baskin

Ernest Baskin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Food Marketing

  • Market Research
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Food Marketing
  • Retailing
  • Nudging Your Consumers
  • Millennial and Gen Z Job Preferences
  • Potential Landmines in Analyzing Big Data
  • Consumer Judgment and Decision Making
  • SPSS, VBA for Excel, Qualtrics (Software)
  • Consumer Trends
  • Negotiations and Sales
  • Sustainability and Healthy Eating
  • A/B testing and Experimental Design
  • Go to Market Strategy
  • Promotion Strategy
  • Marketing Strategy
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Morgan Bryant

Morgan M. Bryant, Ph.D

(she/her)

Assistant Professor, Marketing

  • Consumer Market Research
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Management Consulting
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Kerrin Clapp

Kerrin Clapp, J.D.

Visiting Professor, Management

  • Business Law
  • Business Communication
  • Building Rapport for Better Results
  • Using Stories and Metaphors to Communicate
  • Lessons from Rhetoric--what not to do and how to fight back without fighting
  • The Rule of Three in Communication
  • The Three Pillars of Effective Persuasion
  • Integrative Bargaining--building a bigger pie
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Anthony DelCronte

Anthony DelConte, M.D.

Visiting Professor, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing

  • Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing
  • Global Corporate Strategy
  • Sales
  • Promotions
  • Healthcare Delivery Alternative
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Ronald Dufresne

Ronald Dufresne, Ph.D.

Interim Chair and Associate Professor, Management; Director of Leadership, Ethics and Organizational Sustainability Program

  • Servant Leadership
  • Authentic Leadership
  • Ethical Leadership
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Performance Feedback
  • Decision Making
  • Psychological Safety/Team Skills
  • Organizational Learning
  • Emotional Intelligence
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Lucy Ford

Lucy Ford, Ph.D.

Director, Managing Human Capital

  • Leadership
  • Teams
  • Individual Development Planning
  • Organizational Climate
  • Survey Development
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Kathy Garrett

Kathy Garrett, Ph.D.

Visiting Instructor, Educational Leadership 

  • Adult Leadership
  • Team-Building
  • People and Leadership Development
  • Organization Development
  • Organization Design
  • Change management
  • Culture Building
  • Employee Engagement
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Chris Heasley

Chris Heasley, Ed.D.

(he/him)

Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership

  • Human Research
  • Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Creating a Welcoming Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Workplace
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George Latella

George Latella, MBA

Visiting Instructor, Food Marketing

  • Marketing Strategy
  • Sales Strategy
  • Understanding the Customer & Consumer Retail
  • Creating Value from a Marketing Perspective
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George Lutzow

George Lutzow

Visiting Instructor, Management

  • Strategic Planning
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Executive Leadership Development
  • Human Capital 
  • Management
  • Teams
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Elena Lvina

Elena Lvina, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Management

  • Leading Change
  • Global & Virtual Teams Teams
  • Influence, Negotiation, & Conflict
  • Empowering Individuals & Groups
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Ruben Mendoza

Ruben A. Mendoza, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Decision and System Sciences

  • Foundations of BI
  • IT/IS
  • Entry-level DB Skills 
  • Decision-making Strategies Content
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Virginia Miori

Virginia Miori, Ph.D.

Professor, Decision and System Sciences

  • Business Statistics
  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Business Analytics
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Emily Moscato

Emily M. Moscato, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Food Marketing

  • Food Well being (food socialization, literacy, access, marketing, and policy; savoring)
  • Climate Crisis and Food (e.g. edible insects)
  • Food and Society
  • Design Thinking
  • Consumer Insights and Qualitative Research (best practices and creative methods, e.g. photography)
  • Action Research and Transformative Consumer Research (participatory, behavior change, and measuring impact)
  • Marketing Pedagogy
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Diane Phillips

Diane Phillips, Ph.D.

Professor, Marketing

  • Consumer Behavior and Consumer Psychology
  • The Green Consumer
  • The Science of Climate Change
  • Sustainability and Business
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Steven Porth

Steven J. Porth, Ph.D.

Professor, Management

  • Leadership
  • Servant Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Perspective-taking Strategy; Strategic Analysis and Decision-making
  • Coaching & Providing Feedback
  • Managing Conflict; having difficult conversations
  • Establishing and Communicating Vision
  • Leading Organizational Change
  • Better Decision-Making
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Michael Solomon

Michael Solomon, Ph.D.

Professor, Marketing

  • Consumer Behavior
  • Retailing and Shopping
  • Fashion Psychology
  • Branding
  • Advertising and Social Media
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John Stanton

John L. Stanton, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Food Marketing

  • Marketing
  • Statistics
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Social Psychology
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Timothy Swift

Tim Swift, Ph.D.

Professor, Management

  • Organizational Change
  • Business Ethics
  • Technology and Innovation Management
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Jennifer Tudor

Jennifer C. Tudor, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biology

  • Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Neuroscience
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