Prof. O’Leary graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management (Ph.D., Organization Studies) and Duke University (B.A., Public Policy), where he also was a member of the Board of Trustees. Before joining the faculty at Georgetown in 2009, he worked in policy analysis and consulting, and taught at Boston College. He has won teaching and service awards at both BC and Georgetown, and has taught undergraduates, masters students, PhDs, and executives. In 2017, he became Faculty Chair of the Undergraduate Program and Chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum and Standards Committee. He also directs the school’s Partners in Leadership Learning and Research (PILLARs) program – strengthening ties between alumni and the leadership, learning, and research mission of the school. In 2019, he launched the school’s McDonough Women in Business 60th Anniversary book project and, in 2020, he was appointed Senior Associate Dean of Custom Executive Education and co-chair of the School’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

He has taught in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America, and in six of Georgetown’s masters programs (MBA, Executive Masters in Leadership, EMBA, GEMBA, M.A. in International Business and Policy, and online Masters of Science in Finance). His classes focus on teams, leadership, change, and global business. He has also taught and directed executive education programs for a wide variety of domestic and international organizations (e.g., AARP, Abengoa, AES, Booz Allen Hamilton, CapitalOne, Community Connections of DC, Force3, Grifols, IFC, InterAmerican Development Bank, Irish Times, Deloitte, Josoor Institute, KPMG, OPIC, Qatari Soccer Federation, Red Cross, SK, Telvent, USAID, World Bank,). With Dean Paul Almeida, he is co-designer, academic advisor, and faculty member for the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, founded by the presidential centers of Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush. He is also a faculty member for the Bush Center’s Stand-To Veterans Leadership Program.

At Georgetown, O’Leary has developed or co-developed many courses including: the team-taught Principled Leadership MBA core course; the Global Business Experience course and “flipped” MBA courses on globalization and the wine industry (“Globalization: From Grape to Glass”); the Principled Financial Leadership course for the MSF program; the new MSB-SFS joint degree’s signature course on Global Culture and Management; Technology Transformation and the News Business; Crisis Leadership and Communications; and a seminar on psychology at work. He has received the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award twice and served on numerous university committees (e.g., the Dean’s Search Committee and B.S. in Business and Global Affairs Joint Degree Design Committee). At BC, he helped design Portico – an innovative program in leadership, management, and ethics for all first-year students, and helped re-design the leadership and management majors.

Prior to his academic career, he was a policy analyst at AIR and a management consultant at Coopers & Lybrand. He worked on large re-organizations, technology implementations, digital strategies, and process redesigns. At C&L, his clients included major higher education, medical, and non-profit institutions (e.g., Columbia, Stanford, Tufts, BU, and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Minnesota), as well as large nonprofit organizations (e.g., ETS and the NCAA). At Pelavin Associates, now part of AIR, his clients included the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, the NCES, Census Bureau, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Bureau of Prisons.

O’Leary’s research deals with high-performing teams (especially virtual ones), multitasking, multi-teaming, and teams dealing with resources constraints. His work has been published by MIT Press and in the Academy of Management Review, IESE Insight, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Studies, and Academy of Management’s Best Paper Proceedings. His MISQ article about perceived proximity between geographically dispersed colleagues won the European Research Paper of the Year Award from CIONET – Europe’s largest association of IT executives. He is also co-author of the book, Lessons for Nonprofit and Start-Up Leaders: Tales from a Reluctant CEO. He served as an expert reviewer for three National Science Foundation review panels and has reviewed for more than 20 academic journals.

He grew up in Stony Brook, NY (Long Island), lives in Bethesda, MD, is an avid athlete (arm-chair and on the field/court – tennis, soccer, and basketball), traveler (50+ countries and counting) and cook, as well as a devoted husband (wife Meg) and father (Grace and Liam).

Jeffrey T. Macher is a professor of strategy, economics, and policy in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He is also the academic director of Georgetown’s Center for Business and Public Policy. He teaches full-time, evening, and executive MBA and executive education courses in microeconomics, competitive strategy, and the management of technology and innovation.

Prior to Georgetown University, Macher worked for Braxton Associate (a strategy consulting firm now part of Deloitte Consulting), IBM, and Motorola. Macher is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM), the American Economics Association (AEA), the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon), the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE), and the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He is on the editorial boards of Production and Operations Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal, and a reviewer for several academic journals. He is also a special government employee (SGE) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Management expert Brooks Holtom -- acclaimed by both Georgetown University McDonough School of Business students and fellow scholars -- has some 15 years of experience researching and teaching how organizations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital.

His research, which has been published in the top academic journals in the field, can be applied by industry practitioners to better understand and engage their employees. Professor Holtom’s most recent work explores how employees’ internal networks can affect turnover and retention. He frequently is sought-after as a source in national media on human resources issues. He has performed research in or served as a consultant to numerous organizations including Booz Allen Hamilton, Capital One, Citibank, International Monetary Fund, Northwestern Mutual, the Korean Ministry of Finance and Economy, Rolls Royce, POSCO, SK Group, United States Air Force, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the World Bank.

Professor Holtom also works with the U.S. Presidential Centers for Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush to lead scholarly lessons on leadership. As part of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, Holtom recently co-taught classes on the topic of strategic partnerships for 60 Presidential Scholars at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Center. The module centered around forming and using alliances. Professor Holtom, who teaches courses in human social capital, management and organizational behavior, and management consulting, has twice received the Professor of the Year award for Georgetown McDonough’s Executive Master’s in Leadership program.

Jeanine Turner helps executives gain a strengthened sense of how best to communicate their presence. Using arguments, data, and audience analysis, Turner works with executives to choose messages and communication channels to create powerful stories. Her research and coursework explores persuasion, conflict resolution, and the impact of new media on organizational and interpersonal communication. When leading executive programs, Turner provides concrete skills and strategies for delivering information and messages as well as specific tools for managing difficult conversations.

In addition to teaching executive education at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Turner has taught in San Francisco, Overland Park (Kansas), Houston, Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Portage (Michigan), Baltimore, Toronto, Germany, Italy, and Montenegro.

Turner has earned recognition and teaching honors from the McDonough School of Business in 2000-2001 and Executive Master’s in Leadership Distinguished Teaching Awards in 2006-2007, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, and 2013-2014.

Turner has worked with many companies and organizations, including AARP, Marriott, Microsoft, the Pentagon, the Smithsonian, Sprint, World Bank, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She has also co-authored several publications in the field of communication, including “Options for the Construction of Social Presence in a Digitally Enhanced Multicommunicative Environment.” (Communication Theory, 2018) as well as “Can Messages Make a Difference? The association between e-mail messages and health outcomes in diabetes patients,” (Human Communication Research, 2013) and “Multicommunicating and episodic presence: Creating new constructs for studying new phenomenon” (Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships, 2011).

Robert J. Bies (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of management and founder of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He also founded the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program for D.C. Public Schools Principals and the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program for D.C. Public School Leaders (a cross-sector program of DCPS principals and public charter school principals).

Bies received the Best Teacher Award at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He has received numerous awards at Georgetown McDonough, including the Joseph Le Moine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence twice; the Outstanding Professor of the International Executive MBA Program; the Outstanding Professor of the Executive Master’s in Leadership Program (2008); the Academic Council Professor of the Year Student Choice Award (2011); MBA Professor of the Module by Georgetown McDonough MBA students (2011); and Outstanding Professor of the Global Executive MBA Program (2012).

Bies’s current research focuses on leadership, the delivery of bad news, organizational justice and revenge, forgiveness, and mercy in the workplace. He has published extensively on these topics and related issues in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, as well as in the prestigious annual series of analytical essays, Research in Organizational Behavior.

Dr. Sudipta Dasmohapatra is the Academic Director of the Masters in Business Analytics (MSBA) and Professor of the Practice at McDonough School of Business. Dr. Dasmohapatra has extensive experience in teaching, research and practice in data science and analytics specifically in data management, unsupervised and supervised modeling, design of experiments (for direct marketing, A/B and multivariable testing), and digital analytics. She has worked with numerous industry partners, government and non-profit organizations on a variety of business analytics projects.

Previously, Dr. Dasmohapatra served as the Director of the Masters in Statistical Science in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. Dr. Dasmohapatra is also an Adjunct Professor at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where she has taught Health Analytics and Digital Marketing. She joined the board of SAMSI (Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute), an NSF funded Math and Statistics Institute, in July 2018 as the Associate Director of Diversity. She has over 10 years experience consulting in analytics and data science and currently serves in the advisory boards of two strategic analytics start-up firms- "Vertaeon, Inc." based in Atlanta and "Kloutics, Inc." based in Pune, India.

She was an Associate Professor in Advanced Analytics at the Institute for Advanced Analytics at NC State University (2008-2017) and was instrumental in the development of the Marketing and Customer Analytics curriculum for this nation's first MS in Analytics program.

Dr. Sudipta Dasmohapatra is the Academic Director of the Masters in Business Analytics (MSBA) and Professor of the Practice at McDonough School of Business. Dr. Dasmohapatra has extensive experience in teaching, research and practice in data science and analytics specifically in data management, unsupervised and supervised modeling, design of experiments (for direct marketing, A/B and multivariable testing), and digital analytics. She has worked with numerous industry partners, government and non-profit organizations on a variety of business analytics projects.

Previously, Dr. Dasmohapatra served as the Director of the Masters in Statistical Science in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. Dr. Dasmohapatra is also an Adjunct Professor at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where she has taught Health Analytics and Digital Marketing. She joined the board of SAMSI (Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute), an NSF funded Math and Statistics Institute, in July 2018 as the Associate Director of Diversity. She has over 10 years experience consulting in analytics and data science and currently serves in the advisory boards of two strategic analytics start-up firms- "Vertaeon, Inc." based in Atlanta and "Kloutics, Inc." based in Pune, India.

She was an Associate Professor in Advanced Analytics at the Institute for Advanced Analytics at NC State University (2008-2017) and was instrumental in the development of the Marketing and Customer Analytics curriculum for this nation's first MS in Analytics program.