Master of Professional Studies in Human Resources Management
Faculty
Learn from HR Leaders
Faculty members of the Human Resources Management program are accomplished professionals and academics, representing the best in research, thought leadership and business practice.
"The best thing about the Human Resources Management program is the diversity of experience that both students and instructors bring to it," said Chris Ortiz, from the Class of '11. "Courses are challenging and engaging. I learned valuable information in every class."
The diverse staff consists of Fortune 500 experts in the field, international legal experts on workplace laws and regulations, and those with specialized knowledge on a range of human resources topics: human capital management, global HR, diversity and inclusion management, performance programs, change management, compensation and benefits, organizational development, crisis management – to name a few.
"Our faculty drives students to understand human resources management as a catalyst for adding value to businesses and organizations," said Dr. Christopher Metzler, Senior Associate Dean of Applied Management Degrees at The School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University.
Faculty fieldwork and accomplishments include authorships of academic books, white papers and articles, and award-winning thought leadership to help define best-in-class HR practices. Many are also called on as leading consultants of business, executive coaches and presenters at major HR conferences and business seminars throughout the world.
Grounded in Ethics and Passion
As part of a Jesuit, student-centered research university, our faculty is dedicated to providing students with a professional education grounded in business ethics and, through human resources management, finding solutions that benefit humankind as well as companies.
"Regardless of their academic and professional backgrounds, all of our faculty members share a common trait – a passion for developing skilled practitioners in the field," Dr. Metzler said.
What Students Are Saying About Our World-Class Faculty
"The professors support students beyond the classroom. The faculty is available for advice on situations in the workplace as well as assistance with career decisions. They are truly invested in student success."
- Chandni Patel ('12)
"The high caliber of the professors has contributed significantly to my growth and development as an HR professional. By grounding academics with the real world experiences of the faculty, I've received the best of both worlds. The ability to navigate between the two enhances my skill set and improves my value in my profession."
- Mark Venner ('12)
"You will be trained by world-class faculty on cutting-edge topics in a rapidly evolving field."
- Harkamal Singh (’10)
"The faculty is made up of working professionals in the HR field. Their instruction is always accurate and up-to-date."
- Masharn Austin ('13)
"The ability to have a meaningful dialogue with other knowledgeable HR professionals, including faculty and students – is priceless."
- Miriam Medhanie (’12)
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a Associate Professor at SFS-Qatar and author of Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement (U.ofChicagoPress2009); Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (Ed.). (University of Pennsylvania Press 2006) and Wanderings (Cornell UniversityPress2002). She is the editor of 2010 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press).
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Natasha Bowman, J.D., SPHR has 10 years of progressive Human Resources experience with a versatile track record across varying industries. She currently serves as a Market Human Resource Manager for Walmart, Stores, Inc. In this capacity, she guides and leads the Human Resources services, policies and programs for a workforce of 3,000 employees across eight retail units in the Metro New York area. Prior to this role, she provided for the oversight and strategy of employment compliance matters for the US business and Puerto Rico for Walmart Corporate with a primary focus in the areas of: Wage and Hour (FLSA), EEO, ADA, Employment Verifications, Federal/State Regulatory Compliance, and Consent Decree Management. In addition to her roles with Walmart, she has lead the Human Resources function on a regional level for a national manufacturing company as well as managed the Human Resources function for a mid-sized law firm.
Natasha holds a J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law where participated in Walmart’s Stores, Inc. Legal Internship Program and was a law clerk for the Fayetteville, Arkansas office of Littler Mendelson. During law school, Natasha was inducted as a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal honor society and placed regionally in the American Bar Association’s Client Counseling Competition. Natasha has also been an author and researcher for several labor and employment law related publications.
Natasha has held the Senior Professional in Human Resources designation since 2009.
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Nancy Burnett, JD is a Senior Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of EEO and a Senior Strategist with Tucker Spearman & Associates, Inc., an EEO and Inclusion management company. In these roles she designs and delivers training for Directors of Diversity, HR, and EEO and their staff including investigators and counselors. In addition, she coaches executives on EEO and inclusion topics and provides program design on these topics including leveraging strategies for business development.
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Dr. Nadine Burnside is an organizational effectiveness and human resources practitioner. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of Human Resources and Organizational Development. She has held progressively responsible positions including managing organizational performance, talent management, position classification and compensation, and strategic management operations. Moreover, she has served as project manager for several high profiled organizational effectiveness initiatives and has provided consultation and professional development on strategic management, organizational change management, diversity and inclusion, leadership and team development, compensation, and employment law and practices.
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Laura Castillo-Page, Ph.D., is senior director of Diversity Policy and Programs and Organizational Capacity Building at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Dr. Castillo-Page is responsible for strategic planning, setting priorities, staff professional development, and for managing the day-to-day operations of the Diversity Policy and Programs unit. Dr. Castillo-Page also leads the organizational capacity building portfolio of work to promote the infusion of diversity and inclusion throughout academic medicine to support member institutions through services, tools, and resources that strengthen their policies and processes and address diversity issues at the institutional level.
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Strategic Diagnosis and Planning in Diversity and Inclusion
Creating and Sustaining a Climate of Inclusion
Charles T. Cisney is an International Human Resources professional with demonstrated expertise and who specializes in international compensation & benefits, crisis management, management and leadership training as well as strategic human resources management.
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Cynde is a Human Resource professional with over ten years of full life-cycle recruiting experience in the professional services industry. She has seven years of direct experience sourcing, recruiting, hiring and onboarding experienced accounting and legal professionals for Deloitte's audit and tax practices. Prior to joining Deloitte, Cynde spent over three years as a senior search consultant with a boutique executive search firm doing recruiting and relationship management for corporate clients, including Deloitte.
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Wayne Connell is Vice President of Human Resources for The Washington Post where he leads the HR function in workforce planning, talent acquisition, total rewards, organizational development, retention, and HR policy. He has 15 years of HR experience, spanning the hospitality, aviation, and media industries.
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Wanda A. Cumberlander is an organizational effectiveness and management consultant. She specializes in change management, transition management, diversity consulting and training, organizational development, strategic planning, leadership development, group facilitation, executive coaching, and career development.
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Alison Davis represents management in employment and labor law. She has extensive litigation experience in the employment arena including: sexual harassment, race, national origin, age, gender and disability discrimination, overtime, FMLA, USERRA, the Railway Labor Act, and wrongful termination claims. Alison also counsels employers on employment laws, policies and procedures, disciplinary actions, diversity and wage and hour issues. Earlier in her career, she served as Associate General Counsel for Labor and Employment at the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), Vice-President & Assistant General Counsel with Zurich North America, and later as a Partner at a Washington, DC law firm. She earned a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA with honors from McGill University.
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John W. Gill brings 30-plus years of Human Resource experience, over 20 of which have been at the executive management level with U.S. domestic and international-based parent companies.
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Michael Grove is a principal of Grove USA, a management consulting firm that works with early-stage companies seeking rapid launches or expansion. Michael’s expertise includes advising clients on how to build high performance launch teams, go-to-market and align human capital to corporate strategy. His expertise in human capital began as president of Talentsmart, Inc. where he advised senior HR executives at major companies to design and implement competency-based programs for selection, development and succession planning. With a specialty in healthcare, his work earned him recognition by the Joint Commission (JCAHO) for designing HR systems that improved patient safety in hospitals and health systems. A teacher and consultant throughout his career, Michael has taught at a top 10 business school and worked with more than 350 companies, including nearly a dozen Fortune 500. Michael earned his B.S. (honors) and MBA from Boston University.
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Monica P. Hawkins is Founder, CEO and Connector of Professional Pipeline Development Group (PPDG), is a consulting firm focused on Strategic Planning for Diversity with a focus on workforce initiatives and multicultural/emerging markets.
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Jian Hua is an associate professor in the Department of Marketing, Legal Studies, and Information Systems at the School of Business and Public Administration, the University of the District of Columbia. His research interests include information security and cyber internal control. He teaches Management Information Systems, E-Commerce, Business Data Communications, and System Analysis. His research is sponsored by U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is a certified online teaching instructor. He also serves the Institute Research Board of UDC as a committee member.
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Data Analysis and Decision Making
Creating and Maintaining High-Performance Organizations
Dr. Johnson is the Associate Chief Human Capital Officer for Human Capital Strategic Management at the Department of the Treasury.
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Kevin Kraham began his career in employment and labor law with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as an investigator, law clerk, and administrative judge. Mr. Kraham has since dedicated his legal practice to representing clients in employment litigation before administrative agencies and state and federal courts, labor arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations, and equal employment counseling and training. He represents a variety of employers, including those in the transportation, education, hospitality, distribution, healthcare, government contracting, and nonprofit industries.
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Paulette Lundy, Esq., SPHR, joined IWIF in 2007 as Director of Claims. She was appointed Director, Human Resources in May 2008. In June 2010 she was promoted to Vice President, Human Resources. Her current responsibilities include performance management, employee relations, succession planning, and training and development. Prior to joining IWIF, Ms. Lundy was Statewide EEO Coordinator for Maryland Department of Budget and Management, Assistant Commissioner for Equal Employment Opportunity at the NYC Fire Department and a labor and employment litigation attorney for the NYC Transit Authority.
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Kaara Martinez is a human rights attorney with a background in US refugee law. She also has experience with complex commercial litigation matters, including defamation, construction defect, and breach of contract disputes. Earlier in her career, she worked with the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation at the Consulate General of Barbados at Miami, attracting and sustaining international investment for Barbados, and promoting the exportation of Barbadian products and services to North America.
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Kathryn Medina joined the Georgetown faculty in 2012, and currently teaches Foundations in Human Resources. Ms. Medina is the Executive Director of the Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In this role, she oversees the broad portfolio of Council activities, working closely with its members and stakeholders to execute its strategic goals. The CHCO Council is responsible for leading the strategic management of human capital for the federal workforce of over 2 million employees. Under her leadership, the Council has earned numerous awards and recognition for its contributions to federal Human Resources. Ms. Medina is also the first Provost for HR University, the federal government's central source of HR training and development.
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Christopher J. Metzler, PhD is Senior Associate Dean for Applied Management Degrees at the School of Continuing Studies and Associate Dean for Human Resources and Diversity Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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Shawn Mood is VP, Human Resources for Abt Associates, a $300M research and consulting firm with a mission of improving the standard of living of
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Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D., is the Chief Diversity Officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Nivet is known for seeking out and connecting people and ideas, creating innovative collaborations that have been recognized nationally as models of success. Through his writing and lectures, he has worked to reframe the conversation around diversity, elevating diversity out of its silo and into the company of talent management and strategic planning as drivers of organizational transformation and performance improvement. In the context of academic medicine, this means linking diversity to the overall mission of better health outcomes for all.
He most recently served as Treasurer and COO for the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, which strives to foster innovation in health professional education and to align the education of health professionals with contemporary health needs and a changing health care system. Prior to the Macy Foundation, Dr. Nivet held a directorship at the Sallie Mae Fund, the philanthropic arm of the SLM Corporation. Before that, he worked for seven years as the Associate Executive Director of the Associated Medical Schools of New York, where he oversaw several programs designed to increase enrollment and retention of minority students in the health professions. He gathered valuable on the ground experience as director of the Office of Minority Affairs at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine from 1995 to 1998.
Dr. Nivet earned his Doctorate in Education from the University Of Pennsylvania.
A fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. Nivet is a past president of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators, which presented him with its Outstanding Service Award in 2006. He received the Riland Medal for Community Advocacy from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2009. He currently serves in an advisory capacity for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program and the American Dental Education Association’s Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education.
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Eric Olesen is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and leads their Workforce Analytics function. Mr. Olesen has over 15 years in the fields of Applied Statistics and Predictive Analytics in the areas of Human Capital, Quantitative Market Research, and Survey Methodology. He spent the first part of his career in client facing roles at the Gallup Organization helping Fortune 100 organizations link their key performance metrics to employee and customer engagement. Mr. Olesen also specialized in creating predictive models to help organization be more proactive in areas such as reducing attrition, identifying drivers of quality hires, and succession management.
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David is a senior human resources executive with over 18 years of hands-on experience in increasingly responsible leadership roles with major global companies such as Tyco International Ltd, General Electric and Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. He has an extensive international perspective and experience in driving and implementing best-practice solutions to a wide range of human resources challenges that impact business effectiveness.
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Sukari Pinnock is an Organization Development practitioner, specializing in Team Building, Leadership Development, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Work, and Leadership Coaching. She is also a member of the teaching team for the Masters of Organization Development program at the American University (AU/NTL) where she serves as both a Learning Community Facilitator and a Practicum Advisor. She is an experienced trainer of Diversity and Inclusion workshops and training programs, specializing in cultural competence, mental models and dynamics of inclusion. Pinnock serves as the Steward of the NTL Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Community of Practice.
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Dori Ramsey is the Director of Organization and Employee Development at Washington Gas. In this role she is responsible for directing the talent management strategies, including leadership development, knowledge management, succession planning, career planning, performance management, workforce planning and development, and change management initiatives.
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IRA W. KITMACHER, JD, MS
