Charles Wankel

Dr. Wankel, Associate Professor of Management at St. John's University, New York, holds a doctorate from New York University where he was admitted to Beta Gamma Sigma, the national honor society for business disciplines in AACSB accredited universities. He was awarded the Outstanding Service in Management Education and Development Award at the Academy of Management's 2004 meeting.

Dr. Wankel's extensive international experience frames his pedagogy. He shall deliver the Distinguished Professor of Management Opening Presentation on June 25, 2008, at the Management of Meaning in Organizations international conference of the International Association of Cross-cultural Competence and Management (sponsored by the Rotterdam School of Management and Poznan University College of Business and Foreign Languages). A Distinguished Visiting Professor invited lecture, sponsored by EGADE, will be on "Innovation in Management Education and Leadership" at the Association of MBA's (AMBA) Latin America Deans and Director's Conference in Mexico City August 20-21, 2008. In November 2007, he was the opening speaker at the 14th Annual Vincentian Business Ethics Conference in Chicago. In February 2005 he was a Distinguished Speaker at the E-ducation without Borders 2005 Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In 2004 he was honored as the keynote speaker by the Nippon Academy of Management Education for its 2004 Tokyo meeting. In the summer of 2003, he was a Visiting Professor at Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam. In 2000 he co-chaired an international meeting of the Academy of Management's Management Education and Development Division/UAE University in Al-Ain, UAE. He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship Grant for the spring 1997 to teach and research at the Kaunas Technical University in Lithuania. In the spring 1994 he taught under United Nations Development Program and Open Society Fund sponsorship at the University of Vilnius, also in Lithuania. He has been an invited lecturer at the University of Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, the Czech Management Center, the University of Warsaw, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Toronto. U.S. universities that have invited him to lecture include Harvard and Columbia. Dr. Wankel presented research on innovations in international management education to the Nippon Academy of Management Education (NAME) in Tokyo and at Chiba University of Commerce in June 2004. He presented his research on new directions in international management education at an October 2004 conference held in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. In December 2004 he presented research on a survey of international business educators syllabi around the world at a meeting in Cozumel, Mexico.

Columbia University’s American Assembly identified him as one of the nation’s top experts on Total Quality Management. He co-authored a top selling textbook Management, published a scholarly book on interorganizational strategy development in Poland, and numerous scholarly articles, monographs, and chapters. The 14,000 member Academy of Management, the world’s premier academic society in this discipline, presented its Best Paper in Management Education Award to him in 1991 and he has been selected to serve as an officer of AOM divisions every year for more than a decade. He is the leading founder and director of scholarly virtual communities for management professors, currently directing seven with thousands of participants in more than seventy nations. (A Google search for “Charles Wankel” will provide you with an awareness of the scope of his online prominence.) He has run online international Internet collaborations in teaching and research for more than a decade.

Dr. Wankel has developed training programs for many thousands of Fortune 500 company managers including for IBM Learning Services (offered in-house in La Hulpe, Belgium, and Briarcliff, New York) and for McDonald’s Corporation’s in-house education unit Hamburger University (Oak Brook, Illinois).Pro bono consulting assignments include re-engineering and total quality management programs for the Lithuanian National Postal Service’s 55 districts’ managers and on the establishment of an entrepreneurship program at the University of Latvia in Riga. He is currently Honorary President of AMITA, the American Management and IT Association, an executive development program offering short seminars by faculty from leading American universities.