Eastern Michigan University - Professional Education Center, EMU College of Business

P. Nick Blanchard
I am currently a full professor and have served as interim Department Head for the Management Department, Associate Dean of the College of Business for four years and as Interim Dean for one year. My current teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in training and development , and organizational behavior. My research has been published in scholarly and professional communities and in textbooks. I just published my fifth book on training, with Pearson-Prentice Hall Publishing, Effective Training: Systems, Strategies and Practices , 3 nd edition. Over the last 19 years my consulting activities have been directed primarily at development and implementation of team based work systems including self directed work teams with a focus on quality improvement and management development in these organizations. Additional areas of consulting include design and implementation of: organizational diagnosis and feedback technologies (e.g., surveys, focus groups, etc.); organizational and job redesign; human resource development systems; selection and assessment systems. Clients have included Ford Motor Co., Domtar Gypsum, Navistar, Invotech Corp., Chrysler Corp., Bethlehem Forge, Steelcase, Departments of Transportation and Social Services in Michigan, Mercy Health Corp., Applied Process Inc., Ann Arbor Utilities Dept., Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority, City of Ypsilanti, and Detroit Recorders Court.

Daniel Brickner
Dr. Brickner's primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of financial accounting and financial statement auditing, with secondary interests in managerial accounting. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the EMU Alumni Association's Teaching Excellence Award in 2005 and the College of Business' Teaching Excellence Award in 2004. In addition, he is a four-time nominee for the Michigan Association of CPA's Accounting Educator of the Year Award (2002-2005). Dr. Brickner's research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Accountancy , the Journal of Education for Business , and the Journal of Business and Economics Research . He has presented his research at a number of academic conferences, including both national and regional meetings of the American Accounting Association. He has served as a paper reviewer, discussant, and moderator for academic conferences and has also served as a textbook reviewer for several financial accounting texts. Dr. Brickner is a Certified Public Accountant, and he previously worked as an auditor in the Cleveland office of Ernst & Young.

Richaurd (Rick) Camp, Ph.D.
Rick holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and taught interviewing at the University of Michigan Executive Program for 20+ years where his program (which he co-taught with Dr. Mary Vielhaber) was consistently rated one of the highest programs in the Business School. He is first author of "Strategic Interviewing: How to Hire Good People", 2001, Jossey Bass, which has been translated into four different languages. Rick has provided interviewer training in 20 different countries and for a wide range of different size and types of companies including the executive search firms Egon Zehnder International and Spencer Stuart. Other clients include American Capital, Ancor, Konica -Minolta, Shands Hospital, Johnson Controls, Scholastic Magazine, Fisher Scientific, Cargill, Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin Inc, Warnaco, Ford Motor, GM, Dominos Pizza and a variety of others. Rick's training was a significant factor in Dominos Pizza receiving an Arbor Award from the Arbor Group for the quality of their corporate wide selection process. Prior to taking an academic position, Rick held several corporate positions on the staff of the Human Resources Department of a Michigan utility. He is currently Professor of Management at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches courses in staffing and training. He has served on the editorial board of The Journal of Business and Psychology, and has published in a variety of professional and practitioner journals.

Ellen Dolsen
Ellen was one of the designers and facilitators in the First Flight of the Women's Economic Club, Center for Women's Leadership six-month leadership program in 2003. She is Principal of Innovative Resources, and has twenty-five years of leadership and training experience in both business and nonprofit organizations including the Big Three Automotive companies, automotive suppliers, financial, banking and marketing, insurance, health care, telecommunications, retail and higher education. Before creating her own company, Ellen held management positions in a Fortune Top 10 insurance company, automotive-related manufacturing, higher education and a state hospital association. Ellen has a diverse track record as consultant, facilitator, instructional designer, and manager. She has broad based experience in leadership development and executive coaching, business process analysis, facilitator on low ropes activities for team building, large re-engineering and change management projects. She has conducted hundreds of training courses in leadership and supervision, communication, problem solving, team building, presentation skills, and conflict resolution. She holds a Masters Degree in Counseling and Business Administration from Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, and a BA Degree in Sociology from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Ellen is a member of the local ASTD and Association of Psychological Type. She holds certifications in ECI, Myers-Briggs, Business Process Improvement, Achieve Global and Huthwaite Research Group for Advanced Negotiation.

Camille Donnelly
Dr. Donnelly is the owner of Donnelly Leadership Counseling, a leadership development/coaching business located in West Michigan since 1984. As a founding member of Inforum West Michigan, she recognizes and supports the need for networking, skill-based learning, and coaching to advance women professionally. Since 1984 Camille has successfully worked with small and medium sized organizations as well as large multi-national corporations throughout North and Central Americas. Knowing that in a rapidly shifting economy, effective leadership cannot be left to chance, she provides an action-oriented, skill based winning edge for change and growth. Camille's client list is broad based and includes leaders in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, retail, non-profits, education, and fast food. She is recognized as playing a vital role in facilitating the transition to a team-based system at General Motors--Lansing Automotive Division as well as being the only female speaker at a UAW Political Leadership Conference. Camille is a founding member of the CEO Roundtable and the West Michigan Family Owned Business Council. Camille received her PhD from Michigan State University in 1987. Her research in Leadership Competencies was endorsed by Steelcase, Inc. She lives in East Grand Rapids and enjoys jumping rope with her grandchildren.

Greg Huszczo
Dr. Greg Huszczo is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist by training. He didn't start out thinking he wanted to be one. He was and is a guy who is fascinated by teams. In fact, he originally went to college at Michigan State University to become a basketball coach and math teacher and somehow screwed up along the way and became a psychologist instead. Greg has long been fascinated with the puzzle of why some teams really pull together in ways that are productive and satisfying and other teams don't seem to find that right chemistry. He has discovered the seven key ingredients needed for team excellence.

Greg switched his interest from sports teams to work teams in large part because of his experiences as a UAW member and assembly worker at a Big Three Truck plant just outside of Detroit where he was fired 3 times within 4 months. He worked on his Masters degree at Southern Illinois University and received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from Michigan State University in 1975 in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a minor in Clinical Psychology. Since then he has consulted on organizational and individual development and team building efforts for over 100 organizations including clients in the manufacturing sector (e.g. Ford Motor Company, Visteon, General Motors, Freightliner, Navistar, J.I. Case, Unisys, Woodbridge, La-Z-Boy, Kellogg, and many part supplier companies); in the service sector (e.g. Australian Postal System, Credit Acceptance Corporation plus several hospitals, city administrations and school systems); for unions (e.g. UAW, SEIU, AFSCME, UA, USW, BAC); and for institutes (e.g. National Coalition for Community and Justice, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Facility Management Institute, and several Labor-Management Associations and Universities).

Greg has taught at institutes such as the UAW Education Center as well as at four Universities: Southern Illinois University, Michigan State University, The University of Southwestern Louisiana and Eastern Michigan University (where he helped launch and direct their Masters degree program in Human Resources and Organizational Development). He has authored over 50 articles and papers on topics associated with teams, personalities, leadership, change and union-management relations. He has also authored a textbook on training and two very down-to-earth books, Tools for Team Excellence and Tools for Team Leadership, where he describes how to develop and maintain effective teams in work settings using the seven components of team excellence which has been developed through his research and consulting experiences over the last twenty five years.

Chris Kerry
Chris Kerry is the principal consultant of C.A. Kerry & Associates, an organizational development and coaching firm dedicated to enhancing individual and collective performance within organizations. She is an emotional intelligence expert with a certification in ECI from the Hay Group. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University and a Masters of Science in Organizational Development from Eastern Michigan University. She continues to hone the mastery of organization development and coaching skills at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Gestalt International Study Center in Cape Cod.

Lois Mahoney
Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant
Dr. Mahoney's training and research is focused in the areas of ethics and accounting information systems. She is cited as one of the Top Prolific Accounting Authors and is actively involved in the Institute of Management Accountants and American Accounting Association. She has organized and facilitated/presented at major accounting conferences and has provided training to both finance and accounting professionals and accounting novices.

Geri Markley
Biography - Geri Markley Geri Markley is an executive coach and a consultant in organizational performance excellence. She serves as Executive Director of the Michigan Quality Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping organizations improve their performance. She is president of GMark, Inc., a training and consulting firm that assists clients in improving performance through systematic methods such as the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, Lean/Six Sigma, and Project Management.

Geri has over 25 years experience as leader and change agent, helping organizations improve processes through people. She has experience in all sectors of the economy, including manufacturing, service, healthcare, and k-12 and higher education. She has delivered training to the University of Michigan, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Ford-UAW, and GM-UAW through several universities. As a coach, Geri helps clients achieve their goals.

Geri is qualified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Emotional Intelligence, Group Development, and a variety of training programs including process improvement, problem solving, quality tools, and team building. She is a Fellow in the American Society for Quality, holds a number of quality certifications, and is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. Geri is an Alumni Examiner with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program and serves as Judge with the Ohio Partnership for Excellence.

Geri earned her BBA from Eastern Michigan University and her MBA from the University of Michigan.

Stevan Mrdalj
Dr. Mrdalj's research program focuses on user driven systems analysis and design. His recent work involved expressing requirements and requirements tracing for web based applications. He has published nine journal articles, twenty-four proceeding articles, nine non-refereed articles, and five technical reports. Dr. Mrdalj has published articles in journals such as Communications of ACM, Database Programming & Design, ACM SIGSOFT - Software Engineering Notes, INFO Science, and Informatics. His research has been quoted in two professional books.

Deborah O'Neil
Dr. O'Neil has over 20 years experience in management, leadership and organization development. She is actively engaged in both the academic and the business worlds as a professor, executive coach and organizational consultant. She is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green Ohio teaching organization development and analysis, and change management. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Department at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio teaching classes in leadership development in the Executive MBA and Executive Education programs.

Suzanne Paetzer
Suzanne has over twenty-five years of corporate leadership roles--recognized for consistent top performance and served as a key member of many strategic task forces. Throughout her career, Suzanne has coached senior executives, directors, managers and newly promoted leaders in small domestic to large, international companies in the areas of results-based leadership strengthening, performance enhancement, career and assimilation coaching, and expatriation/repatriation transition. Suzanne's corporate experience included leading major strategic human capital initiatives as a human resources leader, senior business partner, consultant, and leadership development coach. Domestic and international corporate experience (North America, Canada and Australia) spans large global international financial/business advisory services, public biosciences/manufacturing, and not-for-profit environments. Suzanne has expertise in the areas of leadership and personal development/coaching, human capital consulting, assimilation (new role and international job transition), change management, strategic HR consulting, succession planning, and merger and acquisition strategy advisory and implementation.

Denise Tanguay
Dr. Tanguay is Professor of Management in the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University, where she has served as Associate Dean of the College of Business, interim department head of the Department of Marketing, and Special Assistant to the Provost for Planning. During the 1998-99 academic year, she was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in Higher Education Administration, during which time she worked with the President, Provost, and Vice President for Finance and Administration at Barnard College. She has also served as co-director (with Gregory Huszczo) of the Master's in Human Resources and Organizational Development.

Stewart Tubbs
Dr. Stewart L. Tubbs is the Darrell H. Cooper Professor of Leadership and Former Dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University. He is also a visiting Professor of Leadership in the Executive MBA Program at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his doctorate from the University of Kansas. His Masters and Bachelors degrees are from Bowling Green State University. He has completed postdoctoral study at Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and The Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. He served as Associate Dean of the College of Business at Boise State University. He also served as Chair of the Management Department at Boise State University. Prior to that, he was the Harold P. Rodes professor of organizational behavior at General Motors Institute. He also served as Assistant Director of Community Leadership Development for the University of Kansas. Dr. Tubbs has consulted for numerous corporations and has won five awards for his outstanding teaching. In 1994 he received the Outstanding Leadership Award in London, England from the Academy of Business Administration. He is also a member of the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio.

Mary Vielhaber, Ph.D.
Mary Vielhaber, Professor of Management at Eastern Michigan University, received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from The University of Michigan. Mary teaches courses in managerial communication, human resource development, organizational development, and leadership in the Management Department at Eastern Michigan University. She also served two years as an Acting Associate Graduate Dean, three years on a special assignment in the President's Office at Eastern Michigan University and five years as the Co-Director of the graduate program in Human Resources and Organizational Development. As a communication consultant and an executive coach, Mary has worked in a variety of organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit. For over twenty years, she has been on the faculty of The Executive Education Program at the University of Michigan where she has taught in the Management II Program and the Strategic Interviewing Program. Currently, she is a coach in the Reuters Leadership Program at the University of Michigan.

Diana Wong
Dr. Wong's areas of research interests include strategic alliances, merger and acquisition integration, learning and technological innovations, and international management of global strategies. She chaired the planning committee for developing and implementing the International Cultural Competence Institute for faculty and staff at Eastern Michigan University. In addition to committee work at different levels of the university, she also has consulting experiences with organizations in health care, automotive, and economic development provides practical applications to bring into the classroom. Dr. Wong's professional involvement includes the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society, North American Case Research Association, Eastern Academy of Management, Southern Academy of Management, and the Caribbean Studies Association. She reviews for various conferences and publications such as Human Relations, Groups and Organization Management, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Organization and Change Management.