Chris McCusker

Dr. Chris McCusker is a highly respected educator, management and leadership consultant, executive coach, seminar facilitator, and speaker. He is dedicated to helping clients achieve the highest level of leadership character and best in class results. Chris has an exceptional ability to challenge and inspire students, business executives, and leaders at all levels and across all sectors to learn and to grow as individuals and as team members. In today’s global business environment, Dr. McCusker brings a wealth of international and multicultural understanding and experience to his clients. He is an expert in helping his clients navigate in times of crisis, disruption, and chaos.

Areas of Specialization

• Executive coaching for mid to senior leaders including derailment intervention
• Leadership Development
• Leadership in Crisis
• Negotiation
• Ethics
• Teambuilding
• Interventions for the constructive use of conflict
• Managing cultural differences, diversity, and inclusion
• Talent management and high potential development

Unique Attributes

• B.S., A.M., and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Past clients include the FBI National Academy Association, Underwriters Laboratories, United Way, Kroger, Entergy, Federal Home Loan Bank, AGL Resources, and more
• He has held full-time faculty positions at Columbia Business School, Yale School of Management (10 years), and most recently, A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University (16 years) where he served as Colleen and George McCullock Professor of Leadership and Ethics
• Extensive international experiences, consulting and teaching in Mexico, Columbia, Chile, Venezuela, Panama, Switzerland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, China and Singapore
• Consulted with and co-taught multiple courses with CEOs and senior executives from Proctor and Gamble, PepsiCo, and Motorola
• Nine awards for excellence in teaching

Education

• B.S., A.M., Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983 — 1994)

Companies

• Founder Humble Professor (2020)
• Consultant Turknett Leadership Group (2003)
• Colleen and George McCullough Professor; Professor of Practice of Organizational Behavior Tulane University (2004 — 2019)
• Lecturer, Executive Programs Yale School of Management (1998 — 2019)
• Associate Professor Yale School of Management (1998 — 2003)
• Assistant Professor Yale School of Management (1993 — 1998)
• Visiting Professor Columbia Business School (1993 — 1994)