At Queen's School of Business, you will learn from a team of exceptional professors. This team is consistently recognized for both excellent teaching skills and significant experience with senior-level managers in major organizations across Canada and around the world.

An Integrated Academic Plan

Queen’s School of Business faculty members work together as teachers, researchers, and consultants, and their joint efforts have resulted in a tightly integrated academic plan. Our faculty teach in North America’s most popular executive programs, consult for the world’s leading organizations and have earned the respect of the business media and business leaders.

Respected Management Educators

Both BusinessWeek(USA) and Financial Times(UK) have recognized Queen’s faculty as being among the top executive educators in the world. Queen’s School of Business professors have earned recognition from the Canadian media – including the Financial Post and Maclean’s– for teaching excellence.

In Touch With The Business Community

Queen’s Executive MBA professors have frequent contact with the business community. Most have extensive rosters of private- and public-sector clients located in Canada and around the world. The faculty includes some of Canada’s leading experts in the fields of marketing, accounting, strategy, leadership, corporate turnarounds and alliances. They are also best-selling business authors and groundbreaking researchers. Years of working with senior-level executives have given our faculty the ability to bring modern management practices into the classroom.

Faculty Members

Dr. Julian Barling - Leadership of People at Work

Julian Barling, Associate Dean, is responsible for the PhD, MSc,and research programs. An authority on transformational leadership, he received the National Leaders in Management Education award (National Post, 2001), and Maclean's has recognized him as one of Canada's most popular professors. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada (2002), and named a Queen's Research Chair. He was previously the Chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Workplace Violence, and editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. He is the author of over 160 articles and numerous books, the most recent of which are Handbook of Work Stress, Handbook of Workplace Violence, and the forthcoming Handbook of Organizational Behavior.

Dr. Bill Blake - Organizational Behaviour

Bill Blake is Associate Dean, MBA programs, at Queen's School of Business. His research and teaching interests are leadership and the relationship between cultural adaptability and international effectiveness, and he is actively involved in executive development. Bill has served on the board of directors of Fishery Products International, Homestead Land Holdings and the Network of International Business Schools. From 1992 to 2002 he was Dean of Business at Memorial University of Newfoundland and from 2000 to 2002 served as Chair of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans.

Dr. Kathryn Brohman - Project Management

Kathryn Brohman joined Queen's from Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia where she taught Project Management and Information Resource Management. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACMand MIS Q Executive and presented at leading conferences in her field. She has been very active in her professional career and has participated as a reviewer for several leading journals. She has consulted with numerous leading organizations including Bank of Montreal, UPS, Delta Airlines, NCR Teradata, Canadian Football League, and the New Brunswick Government

Mr. Shai Dubey - Business Law

Shai Dubey is Director of Cornell – Queen's Executive MBA and a corporate commercial lawyer. Shai began his career as a commercial pilot and has been an aviation consultant. A graduate of Queen's Faculty of Law, Shai practised law at several major Toronto Bay Street firms. He left private practice to become the Chief Operating Officer of Quicklaw Inc., a world leader in electronic legal research. He returned to private practice after Quicklaw was sold. He has been retained by many organizations to advise on corporate governance issues. Shai is also a lawyer with the legal branch (JAG) of the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve.

Dr. Clinton Free - Financial Management

Clinton Free is an expert on financial management, particularly in the areas of performance measurement, capital budgeting, strategic management control systems and supply chain management. He is a Rhodes Scholar and prior to joining Queen’s he spent several years teaching undergraduate and executive courses at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and the University of New South Wales. He has consulted with firms including BMW Group Canada, Clarity Systems, Safeway, and Kingfisher.

Dr. Jay Handelman - Marketing

Jay Handelman is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Director of the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility. He has conducted extensive research into the ways in which marketers integrate emotional, cultural, and social responsibility dimensions into their traditional marketing strategies, and the ways in which these strategies benefit the organization. He has also examined tactics used by consumer activists and boycotters as they target the marketing efforts of corporations. His work has been published in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Retailing, and the Journal of Business Research, among others.

Mr. Rick Jackson - Negotiations & Conflict Management

Rick Jackson is an outstanding educator and one of Canada’s leading experts on dispute resolution. He is in high demand as a consultant and third-party neutral. He has served as an arbitrator under the Ontario Labour Relations Act and Canada Labour Code, and as an arbitrator and mediator in business disputes. He is a frequent guest speaker on labour relations, arbitration issues, and dispute resolution.

Dr. Peter Jensen - Executive Coaching

Peter Jensen is an internationally recognized authority on high performance. Since achieving his PhD in sports psychology, he has attended five Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian Olympic team and has helped numerous athletes achieve high performance levels under intense pressure, including Olympic medallists. He is author of The Inside Edge, a book that describes how to improve both your personal and organizational performance under pressure. Dr. Jensen and his work have been featured on ABC, CBS, CBC and CTV. His clients include BP, Nexen, Syncrude, Labatt, Hydro One, CCMD, RCMP, GE Capital, Maclean’s and Royal Bank.

Mr. John Moore - Financial Accounting

John Moore is an experienced executive educator who is highly regarded in the accounting profession. He is the author of five accounting textbooks. He has conducted executive development seminars on financial tools for senior managers at Alcan, DuPont, Canon, Mitel, Shoppers Drug Mart, New Brunswick Power Corporation, Mountain Equipment Co-op, and Canada Post. He also works with members of senior management teams to integrate financial accounting concepts into strategic planning. A four-time winner of the MBA Teaching Excellence Award from Queen's University, he is also the recipient of the Silver Medal from CMA Canada and was made a Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada in 2004

Mr. Salman Mufti - Management Information Systems

Salman Mufti has extensive teaching experience in both degree and non-degree executive education at Queen's School of Business, and with other national and international institutes. He is a former Director of Queen's National Executive MBA and of Queen's MBA for Science & Technology. In addition to his teaching and management roles at Queen's School of Business, he regularly advises senior managers in corporations and the public sector, and is frequently featured in the press on matters relating to information technology strategy and management. He is the recipient of the Queen's MBA 2004, Queen's MBA 2005, and Queen's Executive MBA 2005 Teaching Excellence Awards.

Dr. Elspeth Murray - Strategy & New Ventures

Elspeth Murray leads the new venture related activities at the Business School. The latest of these activities has been the launch of Tricolour Venture Fund, a student-led early stage investment fund. She teaches on many programs at Queen's, and the course she developed on new venture management has been recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the world's top ten Executive MBA courses. In 2002, she co-authored Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, with Dr. Peter Richardson. She is an active consultant to organizations such as the Auditor General of Canada, BMW Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, Mosaid, Bank of Canada, and Acklands-Grainger. She is also a Director for Parteq, the commercialization organization for Queen's University, and an advisor to several start-ups and CEOs.

Dr. Shawna O'Grady - Strategic HR Management & International Business

Shawna O'Grady is an authority on team building, human resource management, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. The former Director of Team Facilitation for Queen's MBA programs, she is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team building. She is also the author of Border Crossings – Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business. Her clients include Microsoft, MDS, Mattel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation and TD Canada Trust.

Dr. Lynnette Purda - Finance

Lynnette Purda is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Queen’s School of Business and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Professor Purda’s industry experience includes a position in investment banking with Nesbitt Burns. During her time with Nesbitt she participated in mergers and acquisitions, equity issues and divestitures. Her research lies in the area of empirical corporate finance, particularly aspects of corporate debt policy, credit ratings, and corporate governance. Her research has been published in the Journal of Financial Research, the Journal of Multinational Financial Management, and the Canadian Tax Journal.

Dr. John Pliniussen - Innovation & Marketing

John Pliniussen is an authority on innovation, sales management and e-marketing and is Director of Queen's Business Consulting, Canada's premier consulting program. He has worked or consulted for Fortune 100 companies, some of Canada's fastest growing SMEs, most federal and provincial ministries, and numerous agencies and NPOs. He has published numerous books and articles, and has won both teaching and research honours. He was Director of Strategy for cgkTechnologies Inc., a Program Director with Shad International, and until recently, Chairman of Bayway Community Investment Corporation. He teaches in both MBA and Commerce programs and is now helping launch Canada’s first Centre for Sales Excellence at Queen's.

Dr. Jana Raver - Organizational Behaviour

Jana Raver is an Assistant Professor and E. Marie Shantz Research Fellow in Organizational Behaviour. She is an award winning researcher whose primary area of expertise focuses upon interpersonal relations and group processes at work. A second stream of her research focuses on the integration of diverse or dissimilar employees into work groups and organizations. Her work has been published broadly, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, and Organizational Dynamics. She has also consulted and conducted applied research in several organizations in both the public and private sectors.

Dr. Douglas Reid - Alliances & Strategic Management

Douglas Reid is an authority on corporate alliances and partnerships. His research focuses on how companies stabilize their alliances by providing network resources to partners. Formerly, he was vice president of an international consulting firm, handling corporate issues management in their Toronto and Ottawa offices. He has also worked for a former premier of Ontario and as chief of staff to a cabinet minister. He has written several op-ed columns for The Globe and Mail and the National Post, and has been quoted extensively in the media regarding corporate alliances and other strategic management issues. Dr. Reid holds a BSc and MBA from the University of Toronto, an MPA from Queen's University, and a PhD from the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Peter Richardson - Strategic Management

Peter Richardson teaches strategy courses on the Executive MBA programs and on a number of the School's one- and three-week executive development programs. During his 20 years at Queen's, Peter has authored over 75 papers and case studies on strategic management. Together with Elspeth Murray, Peter has written Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, along with an accompanying practitioner guide. A previous book, Cost Containment: The Ultimate Strategic Advantage, remains one of the few books to be written on cost improvement. Peter consults widely with both public- and private-sector organizations including BHP Billiton, Alcoa, CIBC Mellon, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Auditor General of Canada, and Natural Resources Canada, working closely with senior executives on strategy development and deployment.

Dr. Paul Roman - Operations Management

Paul Roman is an expert in operations strategy and management. He is also a Professional Engineer with a successful consulting practice, applying his skills in business process re-engineering to projects ranging from the development of a combat development process for the Canadian Army to enhancing the relationship between operations and maintenance at Syncrude Canada Ltd. He is currently assisting the Canadian Forces in developing policies and processes that will maximize the effectiveness of modeling and simulation tools in support of acquisition, training and operations. Paul's research tends to be applied, stemming from consulting projects, and includes publications in The Engineering Economist, The Canadian Institute of Mining and Manufacturing Bulletin, and The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin. His paper “Garbage In, Hollywood Out!” received the best paper award at SimTect 2005 in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Ken Wong - Marketing

Ken Wong is one of Canada's most respected marketing professors, featured throughout the Canadian press. He has worked with the Strategic Planning Institute at Harvard University and the Conference Board of Canada, writes a monthly column for Marketing, frequently contributes to the National Post and is co-author of a top-selling marketing textbook. He is a 2006 inductee into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends and the 1998 Financial Post Leaders in Management Education award winner. He regularly judges both the “Entrepreneur of the Year”and “Canada’s 50 Best Managed” competitions. His extensive client list includes Microsoft, Equifax, Manulife, Hoffman-La Roche, Bell, TD Canada Trust, Tim Hortons, and federal/provincial governments. He is Chair of the Board, Everest Asset Management AG, and sits on a number of other advisory/directorship boards.

Dr. Roger Wright - Decision Models

Roger Wright is a former Director of Queen's National Executive MBA. He has lectured internationally on production and operations management, has been responsible for the design, start-up, and management of several new manufacturing ventures, and has owned and operated a management consulting firm. He is author of several articles on solid fuel combustion efficiency, energy efficiency, and transportation safety, as well as management related articles in Naval Logistics Quarterly and Canadian Journal of Higher Education. He has won teaching excellence awards at the University of Prince Edward Island, the Royal Military College of Canada, and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

Consultants to Leading Organizations

A list of some of the companies with which Queen's faculty have worked in the past.

3M Canada Inc.
Acklands-Grainger Inc.
Air Canada
Alcan International Limited
Alcatel Networks
AT&T Canada
Bank of Montreal
Baxter Corporation
Bayer Inc.
BC Hydro
Bell Canada
Bombardier Inc.
Business Development Bank of Canada
Cameco Corporation
Canadian National
Cara Foods
CBC
Celanese Canada Inc.
CIBC
Cirque du Soleil
Dupont
Empire Financial Group
Falconbridge
General Motors
GlaxoKlineSmith
Good Year Tire & Rubber Company
Hummingbird
IBM
Imasco
Industry Canada
Interac Association
International Monetary Fund
Manulife Financial
MDS Inc
Microsoft
Midas Canada Inc.
Mitel Networks Corporation
National Defence
Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Lottery Corporation
Ontario Management
Board Secretariat
Ontario Ministry of Finance
Oracle Corporation Canada
Parks Canada
Placer Dome Inc.
Public Works and Government Services Canada
Royal Sun & Alliance Insurance Company of Canada
Royal Bank
Sasktek
Sobeys Inc.
Sprint Canada
Starbucks
Suncor Energy LLC.
Syncrude Canada Ltd.
TD Canada Trust
TELUS
Torstar
UPI
Xerox