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Dr. Barbara Kreisman

Office of Executive and Professional MBA Programs

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Barbara Kreisman

Assistant Dean, Chair, Institute for Leadership & Organizational Performance; Clinical Professor, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver

Expertise

Organizational behavior, employee attrition/talent development and staffing,  employee motivation and engagement, strategic workforce planning, cross discipline integration, intergenerational differences, workforce diversity/conflict management

Biography-at-a-Glance

In addition to eight years in academia as both a professor and assistant dean, Barbara Kreisman's background includes more than 25 years in the corporate world inclusive  of experience with  two Fortune 50 organizations (Motorola and Monsanto) , as well as a start-up organization (PC's Limited) which became Dell Corporation.

As each of these companies,  Barbara was involved with numerous corporate initiatives (leadership development, competency identification, organizational human resource planning, staffing and retention). During her 11 years as Sr. Human Resource Strategist with Dell, the company grew  from 250 employees to more than 40,000 worldwide, and sales increased from $500 million to more than $34 billion.  Her doctoral dissertation was a case study dealing with issues associated with turnover of 'high potential' technical talent. 

Connect: Barbara Kreisman's linkedin

 

Academic Professional Activities

  • Race and Case Judge (four consecutive years)
  • Faculty Advisor, Executive MBA Alumni Association
  • EMBA Case Competition Judge
  • Director, Executive MBA Program