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James Angel
Associate Professor of Finance, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.  James J. Angel is Associate Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the graduate and executive programs. For the year 1999-2000 Professor Angel was the Visiting Academic Fellow at the NASD, where he participated in several studies of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. His research focuses on the operation of financial markets in the United States and other countries. He currently serves on the OTCBB Advisory Board, and he has served as Chair of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board.
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This instructor has taught:
Business Financial Management
Vlad Babin
Vlad Babin has over fifteen years of experience in the financial world (investment banking and corporate finance, brokerage, retail banking, and insurance). Over six years he worked for an international investment bank on Wall Street in New York. As a member of the Finance & Accounting Control Group within the Global Capital Markets, he controlled Global Rates and Global Commercial Real Estate businesses. He also spent five years in brokerage (equity trading, risk management and asset management – fully licensed by NASD) in Chicago. Currently Vlad Babin is a bank examiner with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).   Mr. Babin has over seven years of teaching experience in graduate, undergraduate and professional programs. In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, he has taught financial courses at Adelphi University and Baruch College in New York; at Northeastern Illinois University and Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has taught Corporate Finance, Fixed Income Markets, Derivatives Markets, and Investment Analysis. He holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Loyola University Chicago. Mr. Babin served in the United States Marine Corps.
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This instructor has taught:
Business Financial Management
James Baisey
Professor Jim Baisey is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Maryland and holds an MBA from Central Michigan University.  He has been an adjunct lecturer with the McDonough School of Business and CCPE for 25 years where he has taught graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education students.  He has taught both accounting and business majors as well as students concentrating in non-business related disciplines.  In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, Professor Baisey has taught graduate accounting courses for Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate courses at Montgomery College.
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This instructor has taught:
Business Accounting
Janelle Brevard
Janelle Brevard currently works as a strategic communications consultant for the firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where she assists clients each day in media consulting, change and crisis communications as well as thought leadership.
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This instructor has taught:
Fundamentals of Speech Writing
John Corso
John Corso, academic director of the Certificate in Strategy and Performance Management, manages an internal consulting team for the policy and planning office of a major public sector agency. Cited for his work in management consulting and education by Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Education, and Who's Who in Finance and Business, Dr. Corso has achieved real, measurable results for individuals and organizations from various sectors of industry. He has practiced as an internal public sector consultant since 2002 and he has served as a manager, consultant, and coach to professionals, managers, and senior leaders for more than 25 years.
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Kevin Downs
Kevin Downs holds an MFA in film from NYU.   He optioned four screenplays for theatrical feature film and worked as a key creative partner with several Academy Award-winning/nominated producers and directors.   He is the recipient of grants and awards from the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, the Cafritz Foundation, WorldFest-Houston and the International Telly Awards.  He has taught classes in screenwriting for more than 15 years and many of his former students are now writers, producers, directors and executives at well-established companies such as PBS, Showtime, and DreamWorks.
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This instructor has taught:
Introduction to Screenwriting
Katherine Ebner
Kate Ebner is the founder and principal of The Nebo Company, an innovative leadership development firm based in Washington, D.C.   Kate works with individuals and teams to help them achieve their goals and developing their potential as human beings.  She specializes in working with leaders who want to make a positive difference and includes Fortune 100 corporations, mid-sized companies and non-profit organizations in her client base.  Clients frequently engage her to help them to crystallize and enact their visions.
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Robert Fiddler
Bob Fiddler is a professional with more than 25 years experience in marketing and advertising, working inside both Fortune 500 companies and full-service agencies. He is currently president of The Fiddler Group, a marketing communications company that specializes in building brands for a wide range of clients. He holds an advanced degree in Advertising from the Medill School of Northwestern University and writes on branding issues.
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Bonnie Holloway
Bonnie Holloway is an independent consultant and executive coach specializing in leadership development, employee performance and retention, team building, and managers in transition. She has 30+ years in training and development and worked for many years as the Director of Professional Development for a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. Since becoming a consultant she has worked for numerous federal and local government agencies, as well as private sector corporations in information technology, insurance, and the financial services.
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Larry Joseph, PhD, PMP
Dr. Joseph has had diverse experience in both public and private sectors including program/project management, new venture development, technology assessment, and strategy planning. His experience in managing complex projects and programs is extensive. While with the Department of Energy he was Program Director for a unique public/private sector initiative to demonstrate technologies that permit the continued, environmentally acceptable use of domestic energy sources. This innovative program established many new approaches to cost shared partnerships that have become a standard for similar initiatives throughout the government. Upon leaving the Government, he developed a global consulting practice that is based on his experience in managing innovative first-of-a-kind projects and the strategic aspects of program management and project development. His clients are drawn from the energy, environmental, information technology and financial services industries. He is also a founding partner in 3 PM Systems, a firm that delivers Project Portfolio Management solutions to organizations in both public and private sectors. He has taught extensively on a world-wide basis in the areas of energy policy as well as project, program, and project portfolio management.
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David Lipscomb
David Lipscomb has 20 years of experience teaching communications and writing skills. He has taught hundreds of employees from FedEx, Ketchum and other firms, and he has written and edited material for Kodak, Visa, Starbucks, and dozens of other corporations and government agencies. With a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, he has taught writing at Columbia, Wake Forest University and Georgetown University, where he is currently Adjunct Professor of English.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategic Communications Planning
Michael E. Long
Photo of Michael E. Long Actor and author Ben Stein put it this way: "... a poet. I don't see anyone out there under the age of 50 writing better short pieces than he is right now." Michael Long is a writer of growing acclaim. He is an accomplished author, essayist, editorialist and speechwriter with experience in government, business, and the non-profit world. In 2008 he began teaching writing in the graduate school at Georgetown University. He has led reading programs for children of migrant farm workers, and has delivered guest lectures on humor and speechwriting at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management.
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This instructor has taught:
Fundamentals of Speech Writing
Lorri Manasse
Lorri Manasse founded her consulting practice, Cortland Group, in 1984, with a focus on helping organizations and the people in them deal with change.  For the last 25 years she has provided leadership development, executive coaching, strategic planning, team building, facilitation, change management, and organizational design consulting to corporate and government organizations. 
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Douglas McCabe
Photo of Douglas McCabe Dr. Douglas M. McCabe is Professor of Labor Relations, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.  He is the author of more than 200 articles, papers, monographs, and speeches presented at professional and scholarly meetings in the field of employee relations. He is also an active domestic and international consultant.
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This instructor has taught:
Business Policy
Principles of Management
Charles McClelland, MPA, PMP
Charles A. McClelland has more than 30 years of professional experience managing a broad variety of technical and non-technical projects. High profile projects he has been responsible have included the re-design of the U.S. Government check, and conducting a business process re-engineering study of the Government National Mortgage Association.  As an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, an international management consulting firm, Mr. McClelland’s primary responsibility in recent years has been the development and implementation of project management training courses for Federal agencies.  The courses he has developed and presented for more than ten Federal agencies have ranged in length from five week comprehensive, in-depth training programs to half day workshops.  Several of his training courses have been certified by the Foreign Service Institute. He has helped over 500 individuals to successfully prepare to take the Project Management Professional Certification Examination. 
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This instructor has taught:
Project Management Fundamentals
Mike McGinley
Mike McGinley is an executive coach and leadership development consultant whose passion is helping leaders and their organizations become the largest possible versions of themselves. In working with clients, Mike utilizes the principles of pattern recognition to illuminate new perspectives and to help clients more fully leverage the personal attributes that factor strongest in their success.
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Christopher McGrath
Photo of Christopher McGrath Chris McGrath is a Certified Public Accountant who has practiced in the Baltimore/Washington area as well as three years working out of Istanbul, Turkey.  His background includes audit and tax services as well as litigation support.  McGrath has been involved in discovering, documenting, and adjudicating damages due to defalcations and has supported attorneys, government agencies and private clients in this process.
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Ronald Mitchell
A veteran of the U.S. Army, advocate and organizer, Ronald Mitchell recognized to improve conditions for people in the community he would have to get involved politically by working with leaders to change laws and policies. Ronald acquired a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh where he graduated with honors. After law school he returned to Chicago to teach in the public school, transform communities and volunteer at a small law firm. Afterwards he moved to Atlanta to attain his MBA while he taught business law and management. As a graduate student to improve poor conditions within the community and student retention, he became the first student to simultaneously serve as a professor, Graduate Student Government association president and member on the board of trustee at Clark Atlanta University. 
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Richard Newman
Dick Newman is a professor in the MBA and undergraduate programs at the McDonough School of Business of Georgetown University. Dick has over thirty years experience with Unilever, the international consumer products giant, including a number of senior marketing positions in the UK, the Netherlands, Italy and Australia as well as the USA. Past experience also features a period as client service director at Interpublic's McCann Erickson ad agency in Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Director of the Added-Value Company, the brand marketing arm of WPP's consultancy division.
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Susan Nickbarg
Susan Nickbarg is a tenured marketing executive who has held management positions at Discovery Communications, IBM, Novartis, Sara Lee, and BBDO Advertising. She is presently Principal of SVN Marketing, a marketing and corporate social responsibility consultancy. Susan is a published author, university lecturer, and featured columnist for PRNEWS. She holds an MBA from the University of North Texas, a BA in Economics from the State University of New York, and an International Relations certificate from New York University.
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This instructor has taught:
Integrated Marketing Communications
Scott Patton, MA, MBA, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-OPM3
Scott Patton has over 20 years of extensive experience helping clients develop project management capabilities.  He is a functional expert in organizational project management – assisting clients in identifying and implementing management strategies and solutions so that organizational strategic objectives can be achieved through projects, programs, and portfolios.  Using proven tools and processes for benchmarking and competency assessments, he can help clients determine management effectiveness and efficiencies.   He also helps clients build internal capabilities through training and knowledge sharing.  
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Charles Skuba
Professor of the Practice, International Business and International Marketing, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; former Adjunct Professor, International Marketing, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland; former Chief of Staff for Market Access and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; former Senior Vice President, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising.
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This instructor has taught:
Principles of Marketing
Gary A. Steinberg
Gary Steinberg, MBA, is a distinguished federal sector human resources senior executive. He served as the strategic planner for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the 1990s. Mr. Steinberg received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.
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This instructor has taught:
Elements of Organizational Performance
Jeffery Stempien, PMP
Jeff Stempien is the President of the Colonial Group, Ltd, a full service management consultancy specializing in providing solutions to the challenges of project management, organization development and continuous improvement.
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This instructor has taught:
Project Management Fundamentals
Bartholomew Timm
Photo of Bartholomew Timm Bartholomew Timm teaches in the professional business programs at Georgetown University and is a visiting professor in the School of Business at The George Washington University.He specializes in change management, team and group dynamics, effective leadership, strategic planning, for profit and non-profit business development, and hiring, turnover and staffing solutions, and has published and spoken on these and related topics.
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David Aaron Urbanski
This instructor has taught:
Strategic Communications Planning
Lynn Wyvill
Lynn Wyvill is the owner of Grant Street Communications, LLC, a training and communications consulting business. She brings over 20 years of professional communication experience to her work coaching business professionals to become more confident and effective speakers. Ms. Wyvill provides presentation, public speaking, and media interview skills training and consulting. Her clients include executives, managers, and other business professionals in government, corporations, and associations.
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