Faculty and Staff
Our faculty is guided by School of Business and Leadership Dean Gary Williams and GMBA Program Director Lauralee Barbaria. The Green MBA faculty is a dynamic team of professional and academic leaders, providing our students with challenging, transformational and cutting edge insight into how to build and lead sustainable organizations. Faculty expertise includes environmental law and public policy, executive-level corporate sustainability management, environmental consulting, green and social marketing, critical and systemic thinking, economics, and strategic planning. All faculty members are committed to environmental and social responsibility on a professional and personal level.
Thea Bellos, MBA Featured
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Susan Briski, MBA Featured
Susan Briski is Principal and founder of Sustainable Progress Consulting, provides consulting services to leading organizations to help them create a sustainable future and improve their triple-bottom-line performance; where business, the environment, and people prosper. She helps people understand and apply sustainability principles in practical, common sense ways, and provides systematic approaches to produce measurable improvement. Her clients include businesses, colleges, nonprofits, and community groups. Susan has 20 years of experience in high-tech corporations, including Hewlett Pack ...
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Beata Lewis, JD, M.S.C. Featured
Beata joined the GreenMBA as an Adjunct Professor in 2009 and Student Mentor in 2008. She teaches "Communication Skills for Business Transformation" and "Organizational Behavior for Business Transformation."
For over a decade, Beata has owned a private practice as an Executive Coach and Change Consultant (www.BridgingLives.com). She works with highly accomplished leaders, professionals, and business owners to promote healthy, sustainable, collaborative growth, intentional transformation, and personal mastery. Clients benefit from her ground of diverse experience, rich and cle ...
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Jane Lorand, JD, MA Featured
Jane is Co-founder of the GreenMBA and a core faculty member. She works as a consultant to large corporations and state agencies, developing programs for public education in fields such as electric deregulation and telecommunications. A graduate of Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, she spent three years at the Center for Critical Thinking developing curriculum, doing research, writing articles and teaching college and high school faculties how to transform their curriculum so students think more and memorize less. She also holds an M.A. in Education and ...
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Julianne E. Maurseth, Ph.D Featured
Julianne is President of Awake at Work – a consulting firm dedicated to “bringing conscious choice to work” so that executive leaders and management teams develop more ethical, socially responsible and conscious workplaces. She provides system-wide consulting, team development, and executive coaching to leaders across many industries. She also facilitates professional management seminars across the United States and Canada, and has taught M.B.A. students for the past 10 years at Pepperdine University, CSU Northridge, and Claremont Graduate University.
Prior to starting her own busin ...
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Roberto Piccioni, MS Featured
Mr. Piccioni has specialized experience in industry Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Sustainability programs management, consisting of environmental compliance and stewardship, air, water and waste management, employee safety assurance and corporate communications and reporting. Mr. Piccioni has worked for prominent Fortune 500 companies during his industry career. He is a Sustainability & Compliance consultant with ERM based in Walnut Creek, California and is a frequent speaker at ...
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John Stayton, MBA Featured
John Stayton is the Co-founder and Director of the Venture Greenhouse. John spent 15 years in the field of high technology industrial marketing and sales. As a person with many interests, he also concurrently managed projects ranging from international joint venture consulting to directing a performing arts troupe. John earned an M.B.A. in International Business, Pacific Basin in 1995. In 1997, John and his wife Ana purchased an organic fruit farm in Sonoma County as a step towards developing a more ecological lifestyle. He desired to leverage his ...
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Henry Wong, MBA, JD Featured
Henry Wong is CEO and Founder of Adgregate Markets, an online performance ad network. As CEO, Henry oversees the execution of Adgregate Markets's strategic vision and direction. He has experience building and exiting companies as a legal advisor, operations executive, and principal investor. As a Partner with Novus Ventures and Artemis Ventures, Henry helped build and raise over $200 million in corporate and venture financing for companies. He also served on the Board of Directors for AdECN, Inc. (NASDQ: MSFT), the world's first exchange marketplace for online display advertising. Previous ...
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Lisa Chiapetta
Received her B.S in Business and Marketing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her M.B.A. from Dominican University of California. Shortly after graduating from U of I, Lisa moved to San Francisco to pursue her marketing career. She was hired at Fleischman Field Research, a marketing research firm offering a comprehensive range of qualitative and quantitative research services. After many years and several positions, Ms. Chiapetta is now Vice President of the firm. In addition, for several years she was the co-owner of a small natural foods company that manufactured and dis ...
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Manuel Gaspay, PhD
Manuel S. Gaspay teaches economics and management courses and is the Associate Dean for the School of Business at the Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU) at Fremont. He began teaching Ecological Economics at the GreenMBA program in 2009. He also occasionally teaches at the National Hispanic University.
Manuel has considerable international professional experience. He was a member of the faculty of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) from 1993-2000, teaching graduate degree management courses and executive development courses in Manila (Philippines), Jakarta (Indonesia), Ku ...
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Michaela Hayes, M.H.S.A.
Michaela Hayes is Principal of Hayes Marketing & Communications, a market research, marketing strategy and planning, branding, and communications consultancy. She has worked as a management consultant with national consulting firms including KPMG, The MEDSTAT Group and La Piana Associates, and has held manager and director level positions of marketing and market research with Bay Area-based businesses. Michaela has worked in all three sectors--business, nonprofit and government, and brings this experience to her work in cross-sector partnerships and social responsibility, and in her wor ...
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Alexander Laszlo
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John Lemmon, Ph.D.
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Ethan Newby
Ethan Newby received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California San Diego and went on to acquire a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Since completing his education he has lived in Michigan, Massachusetts, and now San Francisco. Over the last ten years Mr. Newby has owned his own company, Newby Research. He specializes in using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to conduct research on user experiences. His work focuses on everything from the advertising that draws people in, to the problems that cause people to call a help desk. The Fall 2009 semester ...
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Jennifer Wells
Jennifer Wells received her B.A. in Mathematics and Elementary Education from Beloit College in Wisconsin. She later received her M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the University of San Francisco. Jennifer has taught Financial and Managerial Accounting at the University of San Francisco and a wide range of mathematics and statistics courses at Convent of the Sacred Heart, the Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, and the Hamlin School. Most recently she began teaching mathematics at the Art Institute of San Francisco. She teaches Managerial and Environmental Accounting for the ...
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