What is most marvellous
and unusual is that Nahser not only practices what he professes in
his own busi ness life, he has, as provost, led a business school
for tomorrow where others can learn the art of values-based
leadership in sustainable organizations.
James O'Toole PhD, The University of Denver, Dr. of
Philosophy, Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business
Ethics
Dr Ron Nahser
Chicago, USA
Senior Fellow
International Faculty Board Member
Dr Nahser is
a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Leadership
Academy™, a Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University's
Institute for Business and Professional Ethics and also Provost
Emeritus of Presidio School of Management, San Francisco (offering
the first accredited MBA in Sustainable Management).
Ron consults with business and
academic audiences in the US and internationally on business
values, vision, marketing strategy, branding, social responsibility
and integrative sustainable management.
The author of Learning to Read the
Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business and Journeys to Oxford:
Nine Pragmatic Inquiries into the Practice of Values in Business
and Education, he has developed a strategic business
problem-solving model known as PathFinder Pragmatic Inquiry® which
has been used by more than 100 organizations and thousands of
participants including: 3M, Levi-Strauss & CO., The Quaker Oats
Company, Time Inc, Harris Bank, Kellogg School of Management,
Stanford GSB, Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, DePaul
University Kellstadt GSB, and many others.
In his four-year term as Provost and
Co-CEO at Presidio School of Management, he re-positioned and
re-branded the college, guided the faculty, refined and integrated
the educational philosophy and the School's curriculum and
executive education program; and placed paramount emphasis on
helping individual students discover their true callings through
their careers, and organizations to connect their strategies with
their values and vision.
Having successfully completed the
first five iterations of the MBA program and played a major role in
growing the School by ten-fold, from 22 students in 2004 to 220
students in 2008, Ron has been conferred the title "Provost
Emeritus" by the College's Board of directors. As Senior Wicklander
Fellow at DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics,
he is now leading the launch of the Executive Education
Programs and MBA on Integrative Sustainable Management.
Dr. Nahser earned a BA degree from the
University of Notre Dame, an MBA degree from Northwestern
University's Kellogg School of Management, an MA degree in
Religious Studies from Loyola/Mundelein College and the Ph.D. in
American Business Philosophy from De Paul University.