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Why TCU?

Our beautiful campus offers a rich learning environment through state-of-the-art classrooms and collaborative spaces, deepening the learning experience, creating valuable new connections and providing ample opportunities to interact with our exceptional TCU faculty. Discover why many organizations trust us as a versatile partner for developing leaders, enhancing capabilities and shaping the future of business.

Fort Worth-Dallas Area

Our modern and evolving TCU campus is located in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas, the 12th largest city in the U.S. Just 18 miles from DFW International Airport, this bustling city offers a vibrant mix of culture, arts and entertainment and is home to some of the world’s largest companies.

Faculty

TCU's world-renowned practitioners and faculty deliver fresh thinking and practical approaches and tools that can be immediately applied on the job. Engaged in real-world situations and benefit from the insights, approaches and take-away tools provided in each program.

Featured Faculty Leaders

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Michael Sherrod

Instructor III
Director, Innovative Teachers Guild
William M. Dickey Entrepreneur in Residence
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department

Michael Sherrod joined TCU Neeley in 2011 after a successful career of entrepreneurial thinking, innovation and creativity. He began his career in 1976 by starting a magazine publishing company right out of grad school. He transitioned from the print world into the online world in 1985 when he helped manage a video-text news service for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In his career Michael has founded or co-founded 15 companies, including Black Dove Media, DigitalCity.com, AOL Local and Examiner.com. Additionally, he has served in senior management roles and started new companies inside CapCities/ABC, AMR Information Services, AOL, Ancestry.com, and The Anschutz Companies. In 2010, he served as the first Publisher of The Texas Tribune (www.texastribune.org), a non-profit, non-partisan media site covering Texas government, politics, and public policy and is founding board member.

Michael is Chairman of the Board of the Urban Library Council, Past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Kinsey Institute, the world’s leading research institute for sex, gender and reproduction, and a former board member of the Craigslist Foundation. He also serves as board member and advisor to a number of online organizations around the world and is an active Angel investor. Michael is an author and frequent speaker on online, cultural and media issues. Michael holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied in the interdisciplinary Great Books Program, an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and an MBA from The Neeley School of Business at TCU.

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Abbie Shipp

Professor
M.J. Neeley Professor of Management
Management and Leadership Department

Dr. Abbie Shipp is the M. J. Neeley Professor and Department Chair of the Management & Leadership Department at TCU. She is an award-winning professor, working with undergraduate, graduate, and executive audiences on topics such as adaptive leadership, employee engagement, and leading change. Her research focuses on the psychological and subjective experience of time at work including: the perception of trajectories at work, how individuals react to change, how time is spent on work tasks, and how individuals think about the past/present/future. She has published a two-volume book (“Time and Work”) and is an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Review, the top conceptual journal in management. Prior to joining TCU, Dr. Shipp taught at Texas A&M University, the University of North Carolina, and Oklahoma State University and she was employed by The Boeing Company and TV Guide. Prior consulting engagements include Ernst & Young, Marriott International, AT&T, Halliburton, Texas Transportation Institute, Inspirus, and Working Solutions. She is also a member of the board of directors of United Way of Tarrant County and serves as chair of the strategic planning committee. Dr. Shipp holds an MBA from Oklahoma State University and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Mary Uhl-Bien

Professor
Chair, Management and Leadership Department
BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership
Management and Leadership Department

Mary Uhl-Bien is the BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (TCU). Prior to joining Neeley she was the Howard Hawks Chair in Business Ethics and Leadership at the University of Nebraska. She has also been a Visiting Scholar in Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal and Spain.

Mary’s research focuses on complexity leadership, relational leadership, and followership. She has published multiple books and numerous articles in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly. Her work has been funded with a grant from Booz Allen Hamilton, and her research contributions have been recognized with two Decennial Awards and multiple Best Paper Awards. She was noted as the #6 Most Influential Leadership Scholar from 1990-2017 in an analysis by Zhou & Li in The Leadership Quarterly in 2019, and was identified in Poets & Quants as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor in 2018.

Mary is a co-founder of the Network of Leadership Scholars (NLS) in the Academy of Management and was elected as both Division Chair and Representative-at-Large for Organizational Behavior, the largest division in the Academy with over 6000 members. She is active in executive education nationally and internationally, delivering workshops and classes for the Brookings Institute, the Gallup Organization, and universities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe. She has given keynote presentations around the world and was a regular commentator for CNBC Squawk Box. She participated in a Fulbright-Hays grant to Mexico during the summer of 2003 and trained Russian businesspeople for the American Russian Center and in Magadan, Russia as part of a USAID grant at the University of Alaska Anchorage from 1993-1996. She served as an executive consultant for State Farm Insurance Co. from 1998-2004.

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Eric Harris

Founder, GatherRound

Eric started GatherRound after his experience in brand- and agency-side leadership roles exposed him to a frightening phenomenon: The pervasive reliance on presentation software for attempting to sell in ideas. Eric believes presentations deserve more respect, because the better we are at creating buy in, the more cool stuff we’ll get to do. So Eric and his team invented and now teach The Campfire Method. Since 2015, Eric has had the privilege of coaching enlightened teams – at organizations such as Activision, Texas Health Resources, and YUM! Brands – who know storytelling and leadership are synonyms.
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Rita Kosnik

Professor of Management and Negotiations

Rita Kosnik is a Professor of Management and Negotiations at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a Visiting Professor of Negotiations in the TCU Neeley Executive Education program as well as the the EMBA program of the Neeley School of Business at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. In addition to the Neeley School, she has taught negotiations courses in the MBA Program of Northwestern University, in the Executive MBA Program of Notre Dame University, and the Masters of Health Care Administration and the Masters of Accounting programs at Trinity University. She has won several awards for excellence in executive teaching. Dr. Kosnik is a trained mediator in the state of Texas and she is an active corporate trainer and consultant in the area of dispute resolution and negotiations. Recent clients include McDonald’s USA, Williamson-Dickie, Owens & Minor, Apex Capital Corp., Siemens North America, ATC Logistics and Distribution, Fort Worth Independent School District, and the American Association of Blood Banks.
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Cameron Potter

Manager of Employee Success, TCU

Dr. Cameron Potter is the Human Resources Manager of Employee Success at Texas Christian University (TCU). Cameron has also served as a Professor in the TCU Honors College, College of Education and Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences. At TCU, Cameron’s work is focused on the growth of Executives, Managers, and Supervisors – dynamically developing leaders to succeed through experiential coaching, creative problem-solving, influential decision-making, and implementation of meaningful feedback systems.

Cameron’s expertise lies in the intersection of values and action – an area of personal and leadership congruence he calls “Praxis”. He draws on his experience as a school principal, experiential educator, certified coach and trained facilitator to design leadership inflection points.

Prior to joining TCU Cameron served as a Senior Learning Partner for Carskadon & Associates (C&A). During his time with C&A Cameron partnered with local nonprofits, businesses, and private/public schools – including Los Angeles Unified School District – to train, develop and assess senior executives and administrators. In addition to facilitating training sessions, Cameron accomplished this through collaborative coaching, change navigation, transformational learning and formal accreditation reviews (e.g. Western Associated of Schools and Colleges/WASC).

He is credited with multiple publications and presentations including; Ethical and Moral-Meaning Making Through Intercultural Initiatives, Development of Situational Judgment, and The Promise of Systematic External Review for Professional Leadership Education Programs.

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Amy Rojas

HR & Leadership Consultant

As a Transformational Change, Executive Coach and Leadership Development Specialist Amy Rojas’ mission is to support leaders and their teams to unleash their greatest potential. After more than a decade building deep understanding of business from the commercial side, she transitioned into HR where she spent as much time capitalizing on the most effective talent strategies. Since then, she has channeled her passion into her own company and uses that experience for the specific goal to enrich business’s greatest advantage, their human assets, to achieve business goals. Most recently Global Head of HR for Dickies, a VF Company, Amy focused on helping make the company more successful through its people. Prior to her role with Dickies, Amy was Vice President of HR for Novartis operating as Business Partner to Senior Vice Presidents and their leadership teams and has also held HR leadership roles in other Novartis divisions including at the headquarters in Switzerland.

In most of her corporate roles, Amy held responsibility for the Diversity and Inclusion efforts in addition to founding and acting and President of the first European Affiliate of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), a 30+ year professional association for women in the healthcare industry.

Certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Amy coaches a variety of executives across many industries including coaching senior leaders in multi-national organizations. She was also a full-time faculty and professional coach for a Fortune 500 Women’s leadership program which spans a year-long process to maximize leader effectiveness.

Amy has been trained in the Hogan Assessment, Hay 360 Assessment and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). She excels in facilitating leadership development programs and has conducted a multitude of sessions on leadership, career development & transition and personal branding.

Amy has a Bachelor of Science in Social Psychology from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and a Masters of Arts in Counseling from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. She is also the mother of an amazing young daughter who is the light of her life and the #1 human asset she strives to help unleash her potential.