Michelle Wieser

Michelle Wieser is the Dean of the School of Business and Technology at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. In this role, she guides all undergraduate and graduate programs and certificates within the school, providing strategic leadership to ensure academic excellence and sustained success and growth. Earlier in her academic career, Dr. Wieser was Director of the Graduate Business Career Center with the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and she served in a variety of career development roles with the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. She is passionate about mentoring students at all levels to achieve their career goals. Prior to her time in academia, Dr. Wieser held several roles in marketing, recruiting, and consulting, including Vice President for Brand Management Executive Recruiting at the O’Connell Group Executive Search and Manager and Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young (EY).

Dr. Wieser received a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development from the University of Minnesota, an MBA in Marketing from Washington University in St Louis, and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri. Her research examines the experience and outcomes of MBA graduates across the U.S. and Europe, and particularly focuses on gender and racial disparities in this space. Dr. Wieser has been a leader within many professional and community organizations. She was recently a part of a large mentoring pilot program with Menttium called “Women Mentoring Men: Standing Together for Change.” She mentored the president of a large financial services firm. Dr. Wieser has served on the Board of the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance, the Forté Foundation, and Minnesota Women in Marketing and Communications. She was recently selected by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal to join a region-wide leadership group called “Women to Know.”

In her role as Dean, one of Dr. Wieser’s primary focus areas is growth – primarily of our bachelor’s completion and master’s programs. This growth can come in two ways: Organically through better means of telling our story, and through innovation through the launch of new types of programs and credentials. Key to this has been the launch of the new Saint Mary’s Accelerators (stackable 12-15 credit graduate certificates).