In my teaching, I love helping students learn to balance their creative and critical impulses when thinking about organizations. The joy I get from education is supporting students as they navigate the bridge from theory to action. This outcome is just as compelling whether I work with undergraduates, graduate students, or executives. I believe that leaders who enact such ways of thinking are as rare as they are valuable. 

When I teach, I focus on:

• Multi-Disciplinary Engagement, knowing that the categories we use to describe the world can sometimes keep us from understanding it holistically,

• Theory and Practice Dialectic, believing that complex problems in the real world are illuminated through theory and action in dialogue, and

• Teaching in Relationship, understanding that the richness of learning expands in a context of trust, understanding, and mutual vulnerability.