David Steinberg

David is the Associate Professor of Contemporary Management Practices at the Edinburgh Business School. In addition to programme leadership role, he is the global course leader for ‘Business Skills for the Second Machine Age’ delivered to second-year undergraduate business management students and graduate apprenticeship (GA) students. He is also the GA Capstone Project course leader and delivers workshops for the Future Made for Success programme.

During his 37-year career, mainly in the US private sector, he built high-performance teams and directed sales operations and strategic account management processes in extremely fast-paced work environments and competitive markets involving multi-million-dollar contracts.

He was a keynote speaker at the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport’s International Centenary Convention in 2019 and the MBA Career Services & Employer Alliance (CSEA) annual European conference in 2018.

In his private consulting work, he designs and delivers workshops on the art and science of asking questions for fieldwork and life skills, research question design, design thinking, and researcher resilience. David is a guest lecturer at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), Edinburgh University School of Social and Political Science, and the Edinburgh University Institute for Academic Development. He has delivered workshops for the Institute of Directors Scotland (IoD), NHS Education for Scotland, The Scottish Government’s Economic Development Directorate, and the 51st Highland Battalion (7 SCOTS).

Education

• University of Florida (1986 — 1987)
• Bachelor's degree University of Wisconsin-Madison (1979 — 1984)
• Georgetown University

Companies

• Senior Director of Studies for EBS Graduate Apprenticeship Programmes Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (2019)
• Associate Professor Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (2018)
• Visiting Lecturer The University of Edinburgh (2017)
• Visiting Lecturer Bayes Business School (2016)
• Head of Operations Management and Logistics Group Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (2019 — 2021)
• Visiting Lecturer Strathclyde Business School (2017 — 2020)
• Visiting Lecturer University of Stirling (2017 — 2019)
• Tutor - Professional Director Series Workshops The Institute of Directors (2017 — 2019)
• Visiting Lecturer Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (2017 — 2018)