Dr. Gerard Beenen is a Professor of Management at the College of Business & Economics, California State University, Fullerton where he teaches MBA courses on team leadership, organizational change and negotiation, and previously served as Associate Dean and Chair of the Department of Management. He also teaches MBA courses at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. His research focuses on workplace motivation and learning, creativity, and leadership, and has been funded by the Graduate Management Admissions Council and the National Science Foundation. He has published in Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE), Human Resource Management, the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes. Before his academic career, he was CEO of a cancer care center, co-founder of a technology company, and a management consultant with both Bain & Company and Ernst & Young. He recently served as a scientific adviser to a consulting firm focused on organizational change, and on a governance board at Hoag Memorial Hospital, Presbyterian. A recent past Chair of the Management Education & Development Division of the Academy of Management, he currently is Associate Editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and is on the editorial board of AMLE.

Dr. Beenen received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior & Theory from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and an MA from Fuller Seminary.