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Faculty Lead | Jason Harry
Hugh Pearson '58 Professor of the Practice of Technology and Entrepreneurship
Faculty Lead | Jason Harry
Hugh Pearson '58 Professor of the Practice of Technology and Entrepreneurship
Jason Harry has over 40 years of commercial and academic experience in the medical device field and early-stage venturing. He is currently the Hugh W. Pearson '58 Professor of the Practice of Technology and Entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering, Brown University. His teaching focus, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, is entrepreneurship, innovation management, and intersections between technology and business. He served for 7 years as the Director of Breakthrough Lab, a student venture accelerator in the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown.
Jason has served as a reviewer for funding proposals to the National Science Foundation “Accelerating Innovation Research—Technology Transfer (AIR-TT).” He authors technology content for the Wall Street Journal’s “Critical Thinking Resources” for university faculty. In addition to his academic work, he is active as an early-stage business development consultant.
In prior commercial positions, he was the founder and CEO of Lucidux, LLC, an early-stage company developing advanced visualization technologies for minimally invasive surgery. He was previously founder and CEO of Afferent Corporation, which focused on neurostimulation technologies to treat chronic dysfunction stemming from stroke, aging, and diabetes. He was also VP of Research Engineering at NMT Medical, Inc., Boston, MA, a company in the field of minimally invasive cardiovascular implants.
He received his PhD from Harvard University, MS from MIT, and BS from Georgia Tech, with primary research focus in mechanical and biomedical engineering and biophysics.
*Jason Harry coordinates the faculty team of the JSW program. He also leads the Action Learning Projects, Decision-making for Leaders, and the Morning Debriefs to integrate and cement learning for the participants.
Jason has served as a reviewer for funding proposals to the National Science Foundation “Accelerating Innovation Research—Technology Transfer (AIR-TT).” He authors technology content for the Wall Street Journal’s “Critical Thinking Resources” for university faculty. In addition to his academic work, he is active as an early-stage business development consultant.
In prior commercial positions, he was the founder and CEO of Lucidux, LLC, an early-stage company developing advanced visualization technologies for minimally invasive surgery. He was previously founder and CEO of Afferent Corporation, which focused on neurostimulation technologies to treat chronic dysfunction stemming from stroke, aging, and diabetes. He was also VP of Research Engineering at NMT Medical, Inc., Boston, MA, a company in the field of minimally invasive cardiovascular implants.
He received his PhD from Harvard University, MS from MIT, and BS from Georgia Tech, with primary research focus in mechanical and biomedical engineering and biophysics.
*Jason Harry coordinates the faculty team of the JSW program. He also leads the Action Learning Projects, Decision-making for Leaders, and the Morning Debriefs to integrate and cement learning for the participants.
Program Lead | Sandra Smith
Associate Dean for Executive Education, School of Professional Studies
Program Lead | Sandra Smith
Associate Dean for Executive Education, School of Professional Studies
Smith is responsible for advancing the School of Professional Studies’ engagement with industry leaders in support of the development of new models of academic programs that can meet the needs of a rapidly changing knowledge-based workforce. Smith is a business leader and strategy consultant with over 20 years of experience and a record of bringing new products and services to market for Fortune 500 companies. Her consulting work at Catalyst Strategies, Recon Strategy and The Boston Consulting Group primarily focused on growth strategies for leading technology and services companies. Her former clients include executives at Agilent, Blue Cross Blue Shield, EBay, Hewlett Packard and Intuit. She also served as Director of Advised Services at Charles Schwab where she launched and managed solutions for their largest customer segment while overseeing technology platform development, marketing, sales, operations, and other functional areas.
In 2015, Smith helped to lead the development and launch of Brown’s Executive Master in Science andTechnology Leadership (EMSTL) program and has served as its inaugural Program Director. Smith earned a BS with honors and MS in industrial engineering from University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Sandra’s career and leadership at the intersection of business and academia makes her the ideal candidate to drive the next evolution of Brown’s executive programming. She understands Brown’s unique value to professional education for leadership in today’s rapidly evolving and increasingly digitally-driven industries and will bring talent within the University together to develop programming aligned to Brown’s Building on Distinction strategies.
*Sandra is the JSW executive education program architect. She works with JSW leadership, the Faculty Lead, the faculty team and staff to develop and deliver the program curriculum.
In 2015, Smith helped to lead the development and launch of Brown’s Executive Master in Science andTechnology Leadership (EMSTL) program and has served as its inaugural Program Director. Smith earned a BS with honors and MS in industrial engineering from University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Sandra’s career and leadership at the intersection of business and academia makes her the ideal candidate to drive the next evolution of Brown’s executive programming. She understands Brown’s unique value to professional education for leadership in today’s rapidly evolving and increasingly digitally-driven industries and will bring talent within the University together to develop programming aligned to Brown’s Building on Distinction strategies.
*Sandra is the JSW executive education program architect. She works with JSW leadership, the Faculty Lead, the faculty team and staff to develop and deliver the program curriculum.
Communicating Persuasively | Barbara Tannenbaum
Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Communicating Persuasively | Barbara Tannenbaum
Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Barbara Tannenbaum, Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts andPerformance Studies, is also president of Dynamic Communication, LLC. Dr. Tannenbaumcombines the academic study of persuasive communication with practical experience gleanedfrom decades of work with executives, politicians, and non-profit leaders.
Through Dynamic Communication, Barbara has delivered communications programs on sixcontinents, teaching participants how to maximize the impact of their communications. Clientsinclude Microsoft, Google, Intel, BuzzFeed, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, CVS, Blackstone,Reliance Industries, and Chanel. Non-profit clients include the International Monetary Fund,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the MetropolitanMuseum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Barbara's courses in the School of Engineering and the School of Professional Studies provideboth an academic foundation for powerful, persuasive communication and the experience ofdelivering effective presentations. Her undergraduate courses in persuasive communication havehelped thousands of students achieve their goals with effective communication. Many studentsreport that her courses are life-changing.
Outside of Brown University, Barbara is frequently invited to deliver guest lectures and keynotespeeches. She lectures annually at the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. Dr. Tannenbaumhas been awarded many professional and academic honors, including Business & ProfessionalWomen’s Businesswoman of the Year and numerous outstanding teaching awards at BrownUniversity.
Barbara earned her doctorate in communication studies with a minor in social psychology at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include gender and communicationand how power is achieved via persuasiveness.
Through Dynamic Communication, Barbara has delivered communications programs on sixcontinents, teaching participants how to maximize the impact of their communications. Clientsinclude Microsoft, Google, Intel, BuzzFeed, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, CVS, Blackstone,Reliance Industries, and Chanel. Non-profit clients include the International Monetary Fund,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the MetropolitanMuseum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Barbara's courses in the School of Engineering and the School of Professional Studies provideboth an academic foundation for powerful, persuasive communication and the experience ofdelivering effective presentations. Her undergraduate courses in persuasive communication havehelped thousands of students achieve their goals with effective communication. Many studentsreport that her courses are life-changing.
Outside of Brown University, Barbara is frequently invited to deliver guest lectures and keynotespeeches. She lectures annually at the Albright Institute at Wellesley College. Dr. Tannenbaumhas been awarded many professional and academic honors, including Business & ProfessionalWomen’s Businesswoman of the Year and numerous outstanding teaching awards at BrownUniversity.
Barbara earned her doctorate in communication studies with a minor in social psychology at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include gender and communicationand how power is achieved via persuasiveness.
Digital Innovation | Michael Grandinetti
Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering
Digital Innovation | Michael Grandinetti
Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering
A former Silicon Valley engineer and McKinsey consultant, Mike has been immersed in the practice of innovation & entrepreneurship as an operating executive and educator. He served as a CxO of 8 startups; 2 went public on the NASDAQ and 7 were acquired by corporate strategics including IBM & Oracle.
Mike is currently a faculty member at Harvard & Rutgers and has been affiliated with MIT in a number of capacities, including Sr. Lecturer, $100K Startup Competition Judge, Enterprise Forum Instructor, and CIO Symposium Planning team member for 20+ yrs. His numerous affiliations with Berkeley include Fellow at the Sutardja Center & Faculty in the Engineering Leadership Professional Program. Mike was named Financial Times Professor of the Week and won numerous Professor of the Year & Global Teaching Excellence Awards.
Mike is on the Board of Decode, a joint Stanford-Berkeley entrepreneurship initiative. Additionally, he’s CEO of Global Venture Catalyst, a new educational platform that helps top university STEM students come together with industry collaborators to work on innovation projects. He's led 200+ hackathons & design sprints and was the founding MD of the StartupNext Boston accelerator, acquired by Techstars & of the Boston OpenIDEO Chapter.
Additionally, Mike is a Rutgers College of Engineering Medal of Excellence Award recipient for Career Achievement and is a member of the National Engineering Honor Society. He’s been published in HBR Italy, INSEAD Knowledge, Wharton at Work, and many others. He's regularly quoted in major business publications and is the host of an innovation podcast series.Mike received his MBA from Yale and was named the Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar and awarded a Yale Teaching Fellow.
Mike is currently a faculty member at Harvard & Rutgers and has been affiliated with MIT in a number of capacities, including Sr. Lecturer, $100K Startup Competition Judge, Enterprise Forum Instructor, and CIO Symposium Planning team member for 20+ yrs. His numerous affiliations with Berkeley include Fellow at the Sutardja Center & Faculty in the Engineering Leadership Professional Program. Mike was named Financial Times Professor of the Week and won numerous Professor of the Year & Global Teaching Excellence Awards.
Mike is on the Board of Decode, a joint Stanford-Berkeley entrepreneurship initiative. Additionally, he’s CEO of Global Venture Catalyst, a new educational platform that helps top university STEM students come together with industry collaborators to work on innovation projects. He's led 200+ hackathons & design sprints and was the founding MD of the StartupNext Boston accelerator, acquired by Techstars & of the Boston OpenIDEO Chapter.
Additionally, Mike is a Rutgers College of Engineering Medal of Excellence Award recipient for Career Achievement and is a member of the National Engineering Honor Society. He’s been published in HBR Italy, INSEAD Knowledge, Wharton at Work, and many others. He's regularly quoted in major business publications and is the host of an innovation podcast series.Mike received his MBA from Yale and was named the Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar and awarded a Yale Teaching Fellow.
Supply Chain Simulation | J. Bradley Morrison
Associate Professor of Management in the Brandeis International Business School, MIT Senior Lecturer, Leaders for Global Operations Program
Supply Chain Simulation | J. Bradley Morrison
Associate Professor of Management in the Brandeis International Business School, MIT Senior Lecturer, Leaders for Global Operations Program
Brad Morrison is fascinated with the challenges people face in accomplishing what they set out to do in organizations. His research focuses on implementation, which he has studied in several contexts, such as process improvement settings and firms adopting the practices of lean manufacturing. He examines the paradoxes of building organizational capability and implementing innovations. For example, why do the actions some managers take foster the very problems they are attempting to solve? His methods blend organization theory with tools of system dynamics, feedback theory, mathematical modeling and computer simulation to elucidate the relationships between structure in systems and the patterns of dynamic behavior they exhibit over time.
Brad has previously taught at the Sloan School at M.I.T. and in executive education in a variety of settings. He has been a partner at a leading global management consulting firm and has more than 15 years of consulting experience in the retail and consumer products and healthcare industries. He has assisted dozens of organizations wrestling with change in areas such as product development, sourcing, and supply chain management. He has extensive experience in Asia where he has worked in 11 countries for his clients from North America, Asia, and Europe. He has also worked in cancer research and in banking.
Brad has previously taught at the Sloan School at M.I.T. and in executive education in a variety of settings. He has been a partner at a leading global management consulting firm and has more than 15 years of consulting experience in the retail and consumer products and healthcare industries. He has assisted dozens of organizations wrestling with change in areas such as product development, sourcing, and supply chain management. He has extensive experience in Asia where he has worked in 11 countries for his clients from North America, Asia, and Europe. He has also worked in cancer research and in banking.
Leadership Capabilities | Robin L. Rose
Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership
School of Professional Studies
Leadership Capabilities | Robin L. Rose
Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership
School of Professional Studies
Dr. Rose has worked at Brown University for 39 years in senior level administrative positions, overseeing critical divisions at Brown. Throughout her career she has been a creative force in utilizing experiential education to inspire young people and transform the lives and careers of professionals. Her leadership in these roles has earned her a national reputation for innovation. As the chief student affairs officer, Rose directed the growth of Brown’s state of the art student services including: the residential system and programming, health services, the counseling center, crisis management team, support for students with disabilities, and support for historically underrepresented groups. With a background in Counseling Psychology Rose also developed Brown’s comprehensive mental health outreach program. Rose created and developed the Leadership Institute, a program focused on leadership and social justice for talented high school students from around the world. She also served as the Senior Associate Dean for Pre-College programs which included close to 6,000 high school students from around the world in summer academic experiences. More recently she has provided engaging instruction in the practice of leadership to Executive Masters students at Brown University and with students in leadership and performance coaching programs. As an instructor she wins high praise from students for her powerful insights, energy, humor and compassion. She creates inclusive learning environments that both challenge and support students. She often teaches sessions on coaching, managing difficult conversations, adaptive leadership, diversity and inclusion and human resilience. She is also a certified professional coach with a private practice. In her teaching and coaching she helps leaders to be creative, resourceful and have a positive impact on the world. Education:Bachelor of Arts, The College of WoosterMaster of Arts, University of ConnecticutDoctor of Philosophy, Counseling Psychology, University of Connecticut
Strategic Leadership| Henry Browning
Principle, Idaho and Fitzgerald, LLC
Strategic Leadership| Henry Browning
Principle, Idaho and Fitzgerald, LLC
Henry W. Browning is an organization development consultant with over 30 years of experience designing client-specific programs delivering on a wide variety of OD outcomes. Henry has created individual leadership development, team development, and organization development initiatives for organizations from almost every major industry headquartered all over the world. This client experience has given Henry a unique ability to empathize with a company’s particular strategic intent and their pain points as they strive to achieve success in a complex world. In his past positions with Center for Creative Leadership, Henry has served as the Director of Team Development helping to create our work in High-Performance-Teams. He also served as Lead Faculty in CCL’s Healthcare Leadership Vertical; a group specifically set up to understand the needs of healthcare leaders as the industry rolled out the Affordable Care Act. Henry has honed his design skills in two separate stents with the Center: From 1992 to 2002, and again from 2005 to 2019. In between these two periods, Henry was the Executive Director for a $6 million internationally recognized not-for-profit educational institution. As a process-oriented consultant and educator, Henry is most often found designing, delivering, and facilitating training programs that accent diversity, team learning, and whole-systems thinking. He focuses his practice on understanding group dynamics in teams, team leadership, and leadership excellence.
Maximizing Impact of Corporate Sustainability Strategy | Stephen Porder
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fellow in the Institute at Brown For Environment and Society, Assistant Provost For Sustainability
Maximizing Impact of Corporate Sustainability Strategy | Stephen Porder
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fellow in the Institute at Brown For Environment and Society, Assistant Provost For Sustainability
Stephen Porder is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a Fellow in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and the Assistant Provost for Sustainability at Brown. His research focuses on nutrient and carbon cycling in tropical rainforests, the implications (both biophysical and societal) of industrial agriculture in the tropics, and the potential for large scale tropical forest restoration. He is also the founder and science lead on the radioshow/podcast Possibly, which explores everyday issues related to sustainability and airs on public radio stations around the country. Dr. Porder received his BA in History from Amherst College in 1994, his MS in Geology from The University of Montana in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University in 2005. He joined the Brown faculty in 2007. He is currently on leave as the De Tocqueville Fulbright Chair at the Institut de Physique du Globe du Paris in Paris, where he is doing research, teaching, and writing a trade book about human caused changes to the earth system.
Strategic Agility & Decision Under Uncertainty | Jim Austin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services & Practice
Strategic Agility & Decision Under Uncertainty | Jim Austin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services & Practice
Jim Austin, a former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare, combines business strategy and organizational development theory with extensive industry experience. His expertise is in working with senior management on strategic planning, organizational change, strategy execution, and new business growth. Jim’s book, Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation, was published in July 2016 by Springer. Co-authored with two other Brown faculty members, it targets healthcare leaders trying to drive transformational change in their institutions. As a faculty member for Duke CE, Jim delivered senior-level seminars on strategy, strategic execution, innovation, and decision-making for a range of clients, including Sprint, BBA Aviation, Roche China, and JP Morgan Chase. Jim is also a lecturer/consultant at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Wharton Business School, where he tailored and delivered senior-level seminars on strategy, strategic execution, scenario planning, and critical thinking at a number of leading companies, including Boston Scientific, Coca-Cola, Lincoln Financial, GE, Boston Scientific, and Hitachi. In 2013, Brown University appointed Jim as a senior lecturer of healthcare leadership, heading a graduate Marketing & Management seminar. Additionally, Jim is a business management professor at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, where he received the “Most Distinguished Corporate Education Faculty Member” (2009–10) and the “Learning Excellence” (2012) awards. From 2005–2016, Jim worked at Decision Strategies International, leaving as a senior principal. There, he led numerous projects, including scenarios of the future for a medical devices firm, R&D priorities for a major consumer products company, a strategic plan for the American College of Radiology, scenarios of the future for the League of Southeastern Credit Unions, and a new vision and strategic priorities for the national and IL Boards of Volunteers of America (VOA). He now heads his own firm, JH Austin Associates, Inc.Prior to joining Decision Strategies, Jim spent 12 years at Baxter Healthcare, the last four as vice president of strategy development for the Renal Division. At Baxter, Jim identified new business opportunities, facilitated annual strategy planning processes, and worked with senior management on organizational development for this rapidly growing, nearly $2B Division. Before that, Jim was assistant to the president of ANCHOR HMO, a subsidiary of Rush Medical Center, Chicago. Prior to his move to Chicago, Jim worked as a consultant for Arthur D. Little, Inc., where he led a number of large-scale planning, business development, and strategic positioning studies. Between college and graduate school, he spent four years as an economist/planning officer in the Ministry of Finance, Botswana. Jim holds a BA in economics and politics from Yale University. He was a Special Student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Urban Studies Department and received a joint Master of Public Affairs (MPA) and Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Previously, Jim was chairman of the Strategic Leadership Forum, a board member of the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, a member of the Board of Directors for the University Club of Chicago, treasurer of LaSalle Language Academy, and a member of the Admissions Committee for the Latin School of Chicago.
Building Competencies for Inclusive and Equity-Minded Leadership | Tristan Glenn
Assistant Vice President for Inclusion, Campus Culture, and Engagement
Building Competencies for Inclusive and Equity-Minded Leadership | Tristan Glenn
Assistant Vice President for Inclusion, Campus Culture, and Engagement
Dr. Glenn is the new Assistant Vice President of Inclusion, Campus Culture, and Engagement in the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity at Brown University. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating outreach designed to address climate concerns at Brown. This work, among other things, consists of him working with faculty to enhance their DEI learning and develop networking opportunities for faculty and staff who identify as members of historically underrepresented and other affinity groups. Prior to joining the Brown Community, he was an Associate Professor of n at Kennesaw State University where he also served as the inaugural director of the Call Me MISTER program. Call Me MISTER is an educator mentorship and development program that aims to place more Black males in elementary and middle school classrooms. His primary scholarly interests are situated within the context of culturally responsive and social justice education. His research interests emerge from a deep desire to improve the social and educational outcomes of students from historically marginalized backgrounds. He is an accomplished scholar who has established a quality record of disseminating his work through peer-refereed journals such as TeacherEducation Quarterly, The Teacher Educator, and The National Journal of Urban Education and Practice. Additionally, he regularly makes presentations at the annual convenings of the American Educational Research Association, National Association for Multicultural Education, Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, and American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Dr. Glenn is a proud HBCU alum as he earned his bachelor’s in special education from Bethune-Cookman College. He went on to complete his graduate work at the University of South Florida where he earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in n and a Cognate in Educational Policy, a master’s in special education, and a Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership. Dr. Glenn is a career educator and leader who seeks opportunities to partner with others who similarly share a passion for achieving equity, inclusion, and social justice for all.
Building Competencies for Inclusive and Equity-Minded Leadership | Sylvia Carey-Butler
Vice President for Institutional Equity & Diversity
Building Competencies for Inclusive and Equity-Minded Leadership | Sylvia Carey-Butler
Vice President for Institutional Equity & Diversity
Dr. Sylvia R. Carey-Butler is Brown University’s Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity. She began in July 2021. She previously served as Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for Kennesaw State University where she was charged with developing a long-term diversity and inclusion action plan and led the phase I and phase II of the Presidential Task Force on Race. She co-designed the diversity and inclusion curriculum for the American Council on Education’s Fellows program, was named to the Top 100 Diversity Officers by the National Diversity Council in 2021, and was honored as one of the 35 outstanding women in higher education in the U.S. by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education in 2020. AtBrown University, Carey-Butler is charged with leading phase II of Brown University’s Diversity ActionPlan (DIAP II) coupled with oversight of The Brown Tougaloo Program, The Leadership Alliance, the TheAffirmative Action Plan, along with other key Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. From 2013 to 2019, she served as assistant chancellor for academic support of inclusive excellence at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where she was responsible for building collaborative partnerships across campus to create an equitable campus climate and inclusive learning environment. As the former interim executive director of the United Negro College Fund’s (UNCF) Institute for Capacity Building and the inaugural director of UNCF’s Enrollment Management Program, Carey-Butler has worked extensively with private HBCUs. She has also held numerous positions in higher education in New York state. Previously, she served as assistant provost and dean of honors at Dillard University in New Orleans and as associate dean of studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.In addition to her university leadership positions, Carey-Butler has researched and presented. Carey-Butler earned a Ph.D. in higher education administration and policy from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in social science from Binghamton University. A native of Schenectady, New York,she holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Oneonta.
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