– Teacher-Scholar
Teaching business and psychology as one conversation.
A teaching and research portfolio — how I teach, what I study, and how I serve — for students who'll lead tomorrow's organizations and need both lenses at once.
– signature course | in development
Introduction to Business & Psychology
Why do people work hard for one boss and coast for another? Why do some teams click and others quietly fall apart? Why do smart companies with great strategies still fail? This course answers those questions using psychology — the science of why people do what they do — applied to the world of work. We'll look at what actually motivates people (spoiler: it's usually not money), what separates a real team from a group of people on a group chat, what makes someone worth following, and why, as management thinker Peter Drucker put it, culture eats strategy for breakfast. We'll finish with psychological safety: whether people on your team feel safe enough to speak up, admit a mistake, or disagree with the boss — and what the research says happens when they don't. Whether you're headed into business, psychology, healthcare, or you just plan on having a job someday, you'll leave understanding the invisible forces shaping every workplace you'll ever walk into — including your own behavior in them.
Intro to Business & Psychology is a one-semester undergraduate course taught through the Dual-Lens Case Method. Students analyze real organizational situations for both what the business needs and what the people inside it need — building fluency in strategy and human behavior at the same time.
– sample assignment & rubric
The Dual-Lens Case Analysis.
What students do
Level: Undergraduate (introductory). Students take one real workplace scenario and analyze it twice — once through the business lens, once through the psychology lens — then reconcile the two into a single recommendation.
Notable design choices: scaffolded across three checkpoints so students get feedback before the final draft; a written or recorded-presentation option to honor different strengths; and a transparent rubric shared on day one, so expectations are never a mystery.