The Global Leadership Advancement Center (GLAC) is a research and training institute located in the College of Business at San José State University. GLAC was established in 2009, GLAC is funded by the generosity of the Donald and Sally Lucas Foundation.

GLAC Staff

• Dr. Joyce Osland, Executive Director, Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership, Organization & Management

• Jeffery Gaines, Associate Director, Lecturer, Management Information Systems

• Stacy Wheeler, Project Manager/Coordinator

• Jessica Navarro, Graduate Assistant

• Jacquelyn Peterson, Student Assistant

GLLab, Team

• Professor Mary Calegari, Accounting & Finance

• Professor Marlene Turner, Organization & Management

• Professor Malu Roldan, Management Information Systems

• Professor Meghna Virick, Organization & Management

• Anu Sairaj, GLLab Associate

GLAC Advisory Board Formation

The Global Leadership Advancement Center (GLAC) is a research and training institute located in the College of Business at San José State University. GLAC was established in 2009, GLAC is funded by the generosity of the Donald and Sally Lucas Foundation.

GLAC Staff

• Dr. Joyce Osland, Executive Director, Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership, Organization & Management

• Jeffery Gaines, Associate Director, Lecturer, Management Information Systems

• Stacy Wheeler, Project Manager/Coordinator

• Jessica Navarro, Graduate Assistant

• Jacquelyn Peterson, Student Assistant

GLLab, Team

• Professor Mary Calegari, Accounting & Finance

• Professor Marlene Turner, Organization & Management

• Professor Malu Roldan, Management Information Systems

• Professor Meghna Virick, Organization & Management

• Anu Sairaj, GLLab Associate

GLAC Advisory Board Formation

Please view the Boardmember Bios here.

• John Baird, Principal Partner, ExecutivEdge

• Janet Bennett, Executive Director, Intercultural Communication Institute

• Annette Finsterbusch, CEO, Firefly Green Technology

• Jeremy King, EVP, WalMart.com

• Roop Lakkaraju, Executive VP & Chief Financial Officer, 2Wire, Inc.

• Bradley Maihack, Worldwide Director of Business Operations and New Product Program Management, Hewlett-Packard

• Richard Okumoto, Principal, Miller-Okumoto, Inc.

• John Picone, Attorney at Law and Shareholder, Hopkins & Carley

• David Steele, Dean, College of Business, SJSU

• Colby Stuart, Chief Creative Officer, Quantum brands BV and Kids2020 Foundation

GLAC Research Fellow

• Dr. Jürgen Deller, Faculty, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany

GLAC Scholar-in-Residence

• Pierre-Yves Sanséau, Professor, Human Resource Management, Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France+

Social Innovation Institute (SI2) and Global Leaders-In-Residence

• Brad Maihack, Global Leader-In-Residence, SI2

• Richard Okumoto, Global Leader-in-Residence, SI2

• Richard Sessions, Global Leader-In-Residence, SI2

• Dave Wilde, Global Leader-In-Residence

• John Swan, Global Leader-In-Residence

  Executive Director

  Dr. Joyce Osland Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership, Organization & Management Joyce Osland is a specialist in international management with a focus on global leadership and Latin American management. She has lived and worked overseas, primarily doing international development work, for fourteen years in seven different countries, mainly in Latin America and West Africa. She taught in the MBA program and executive education programs at INCAE (The Central American Institute of Business Administration) in Costa Rica from 1989-1992. Dr. Osland has received both teaching and research awards, most recently the Dean's Academic Research Award and the Graduate Teaching Award at San José State University. A former president of the Western Academy of Management, she was honored with that organization's Ascendant Scholar Award and the Joan Dahl President's Leadership Award. Dr. Osland is a recipient of the Journal of Management Inquiry's Outstanding Scholar Award for career achievement. She is a visiting professor in Master's and Executive MBA programs at various universities in the United States and abroad. In addition, she does global leadership executive education programs and corporate consulting. Her current research interests include the identification and development of expert cognition in global leaders, trigger events in cultural sensemaking, expert cognition in intercultural experts and repatriate knowledge transfer. Email: joyce.osland@sjsu.edu Phone: (408) 924-3583

  Associate Director

  Jeffery Gaines Lecturer, Management Information Systems Jeff Gaines is a long-term member of the College of Business faculty. Previously, he spent twelve years with the international consulting firm Accenture where he led many global program implementation efforts primarily focused in Asia, Europe, and North America. Beyond his primary teaching responsibilities, Jeff dedicates much of his time to creating student programs/experiences in both personal and professional leadership. Jeff holds a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from California State University, Fresno and an MBA from San Diego State University. Email: jeffrey.gaines@sjsu.edu Phone: (408) 924-3531

  Faculty

  Professor Mary Calegari, Accounting and Finance Mary Calegari is the Director of Accreditation for the College of Business and an Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at San Jose State University. She has been at SJSU since 2003 and teaches Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting I and II, and Advanced Accounting at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Over the past few years, Dr. Calegari has established an impressive record of teaching and research. She received the College of Business Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award in 2007 and Master Teacher Award in 2008, 2010, and 2011 for teaching excellence. Dr. Calegari received Best Paper Awards in 2004 and 2008 for her quality research. Her research interests are IPOs, corporate governance, SOX, diversity, globalization, corporate social responsibility, ethics, and financial reporting. Dr. Calegari is involved in various student organizations as advisor and mentor and was formerly the President of Beta Gamma Sigma, the “international honor society that encourages ethical business leadership and honors the academic achievement of business students.” She received her Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Georgia. Prior to her doctorate, Dr. Calegari was a Manager in the Honolulu office of Ernst & Young where she performed audits, prepared tax returns and consulted in healthcare issues. E-mail: mary.calegari@sjsu.edu Phone: (408) 924-3497

  Professor Marlene Turner,Associate Dean, UCEP/Strategic Initiatives Marlene E. Turner, Associate Dean in the SJSU College of Business, is responsible for leading the undergraduate curriculum review initiative. She is also a Professor of Organization and Management. Her research interests include group processes and performance, organizational and individual impacts of selection processes, and organizational and group responses to threat and crisis. An award-winning teacher, researcher and administrator, she earned a Master's degree in dance from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Theory from Carnegie Mellon University. Editor of the book "Groups at Work," and a regular contributor to journals, Turner is frequently called upon to share her expertise by serving as department editor, special issue editor, and board member of premiere academic journals. Her research findings have been presented in briefings to the United States Congress, Department of National Intelligence, the California State Legislature, and various civil rights groups; featured in the popular business press; presented as the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture; and awarded a custom official Cooperstown Hall of Fame baseball bat from the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball History in honor of her work on Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball. E-mail: marlene.turner@sjsu.edu Phone: (408) 924-3585

  Professor Malu Roldan, Management Information Systems Malu Roldan is a Professor at SJSU's Management Information Systems (MIS) department who has a proven track record in building high quality, multidisciplinary, community engaged partnerships for innovation. Since 2003, she has been director of several projects on social innovation with primary support from Hewlett-Packard and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). She has leveraged a $27,500 investment of NCIIA to generate over $150,000 of support in grants and donations to build a social innovation initiative at SJSU, along with her industry partners. Roldan has brokered and/or led several successful social innovation activities at SJSU, including hosting the 2006 Idea-to-Product Competition for EPICS and Social Entrepreneurship at SJSU, building a team that won top prize at the 2007 Idea-to-Product Competition for EPICS and Social Entrepreneurship held at Princeton University, Coordinating the SJSU Social Innovation Award category of SJSU's Neat Ideas Fair (hosted by the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship), and encouraging faculty at the journalism department to have their students develop and publish stories on social innovation. Roldan will serve as director for this project and will undertake the development of modules and research on social innovation. Email: malu.roldan@sjsu.edu Phone: (408) 924-7793

  Professor Meghna Virick , Organization & Management  Meghna Virick is an associate professor of management at San Jose State University, specializing in Human Resource Management. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington, a Masters in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from XLRI, India, and an MBA from Texas Christian University. Dr. Virick has worked in Human Resources in multiple organizations for six years before joining academia. Currently, Dr. Virick is the Principal Investigator and Research Director of the SJSU Solar Workforce Project. This project is part of the SolarTech Workforce Innovations Collaborative and is aimed at helping develop the solar industry labor force. In the past, Dr. Virick served as Research Director of the North Texas Technology Council (NTTC), a non-profit organization and conducted surveys of former high-tech employees that have been topic of numerous stories in print and broadcast media. Additionally, she continues to conduct research on unemployed workers in California. Dr. Virick's primary area of research is in the area of unemployment and underemployment. She also conducts research on HR practices and employment related issues such as staffing, succession planning, and diversity - with a focus on women and older workers. She also has an interest in understanding how technology has led to the emergence of distributed work arrangements such as telework. Her work has been published in journals as the Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Social Justice Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review. E-mail:  m.virick@sjsu.edu Phone: (408) 924-3575

  GLAC Research Fellow

  Dr. Jürgen Deller, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany Jürgen Deller is a professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. He chaired the department of business psychology from 2000 to 2002. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Strategic HR Management Research and Development (SMARD). In the academic year 2007/2008 he was the Lucas Global Visiting Scholar at San José State University's Lucas Graduate School of Business in San José, CA. In his professional life Dr. Deller attempts to bridge the gap between academia and practice. He began his career with Commerzbank AG, a leading German bank. After studying economics and psychology at Judson University, Elgin, Ill., USA, and Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany, he joined the corporate headquarters of the Daimler-Benz group in Stuttgart as HR manager. He worked with DaimlerChrysler Services (debis) AG, Berlin, and, as senior HR manager, supervised the HR board member's office and headed Corporate Leadership Development IT Services. Dr. Deller received his doctor's degree from the University of the Armed Forces Hamburg in 1998. His research focus is international human resources management, which includes expatriate success factors, repatriate knowledge transfer, human capital management, and demographic change and the workforce, specifically “grey-collar” workers in retirement. Dr. Deller co-lead the largest empirical research project on expatriates, International Generalizability Of Expatriate Success factors (iGOES), with more than 2,000 personal interviewees Worldwide. He has published more than 80 articles and book chapters in both German and English and presented over 150 conference papers.

  GLAC Scholar-in-Residence

  Pierre-Yves Sanséau, Human Resource Management, Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France Pierre-Yves Sanséau is Professor for Human Resource Management, organizational behavior and management at Grenoble Graduate School of Business (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS accredited), France. For the academic year 2011-2012, he is Visiting Scholar at San José State University's Lucas Graduate School of Business in San José, California. He's previously been a faculty member of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. Pierre-Yves Sanséau holds a Ph.D. and a HDR in business administration from the University of Lyon (France), a MBA (Montreal, Canada) and a M.Sc. in political sciences. His teaching interests are in the areas of HRM, Management of Competences, Cross cultural Management, Organizational Behaviour, Diversity Management, Career Development, Leadership, Work-life integration. His research interests include management of technology, management of competences, working time, work-life integration, work-family balance, life-long learning. He has published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Personnel Review, Carrierologie Canada, Qualitative Research, Revue Française de Gestion, Gestion 2000 among others and presented 40 research papers in international scientific conferences (Academy of Management Meetings, ASAC Canada, World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics USA, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, AGRH, EDINEB, etc.). He has also published several books as author or co-author. Dr Sanséau is a member of the Chair in management of competencies at the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada).

  Social Innovation Institute (SI2) and Global Leaders-in-Residence Brad Maihack

  Director of Worldwide Business Operations, Hewlett-Packard Software and Solutions, Global Leader-in-Residence, SI2. Brad is a 35 year veteran of Hewlett-Packard's financial Business Operations leadership community. Over Brad's career at HP he has held a wide range of senior financial management and controllership roles across a broad range of high technology and innovation-centered businesses. Brad currently is the Worldwide Director of Business Operations for HP's Software and Solutions Information Management Business Unit where he is helping drive a range of new growth business initiatives for the Hewlett-Packard company in the area Enterprise Information Management & Governance. Brad is a recognized financial & business leader within HP and is often sought after in regards to leading significant business turnarounds and growing high profile new business ventures in the company. He and his global team of New Product Business Program managers and Business Operations professionals lead the development and implementation of business management strategies & processes necessary to optimize global business performance and to transform its product and solution innovation cultures to achieve new levels of business and operational success. Recognized for his unique background and experience in successfully managing high technology businesses throughout every stage of the business and innovation life cycle, Brad's leadership has been seen as a key success factor in turning HP's innovations into leading edge products, services, and solutions that have helped make it the World's number one information technology company in the World. Brad holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration; Accounting concentration, from San Jose State University. In addition to playing a leadership role in a number of Silicon Valley professional organizations, he was the co-creator of the San Jose Social Innovation Institute, San Jose Financial Management Institute, he is an active member of Silicon Valley Financial Executive International, co-founder of the Social Innovation Institute, Center for Employment Training/CET Board member, and serves on the Knight Foundation's San Jose Community Advisory Board. Brad is also Hewlett-Packard's SJSU campus recruiting manager and President of the SJSU College of Business Alumni Network. He remains an active SJSU advocate and has served on a wide variety of University advisory board's including those for: EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service), the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship, Global Leadership Advancement Center-Social Innovation Initiative and the Dean's Global Advisory Board for the College of Business.

  Dave Wilde

  Global Leader-In-Residence Dave Wilde recently left Hewlett-Packard, where he enjoyed a 25 year career. During his time at H-P, Dave held a wide variety of roles including R&D leadership, business management, marketing, and operations, mostly in HP's enterprise systems business. He most recently worked in H-P's vertical industry group, where among other responsibilities, he was the Operations Manager for the Health and Life Sciences organization. Dave is now pursuing opportunities at the intersection of renewable energy and social enterprises, with specific interests in bringing useful technology solutions to underserved parts of the World, in ways that are environmentally and socially responsible. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  Richard Okumoto

  Global Leader-In-Residence, SI2 Rich has more than thirty years of experience in multi-national Silicon Valley technology companies. He has held the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, and Division General Manager. Currently he is a principal with Miller/Okumoto, Inc., a management consulting company. His most recent assignment was a two year engagement in Shanghai, China as the contract CFO for a joint China and USA venture-funded technology company. Rich is an instructor at the off-campus Lucas Graduate School of Business MBA program and an instructor in the undergraduate College of Business at San Jose State University. Rich recently accepted the position of Global Leader-in-Residence for the Global Leadership Advancement Center at SJSU. He serves on the Board of Directors for the San Jose State University Research Foundation and the Center for Education Training. Rich is a graduate of SJSU.

  Richard Sessions

  Global Leader-In-Residence, SI2 Richard is the founder and managing partner for Altis Solutions. He has thirty-five years of industrial and high-tech experience as a cube dweller, apps engineer, salesperson, marketer, mentor, $150M business unit general manager, leader of a $400M marketing organization, and international business consultant as well as has worked for several start-ups. Richard is a graduate of Cornell University with a BS in Engineering and is an international lecturer and executive education/graduate school instructor on global new product development, high-tech product portfolio management, and high-intensity strategic planning/execution. His teams have won several best-in-class international benchmarking awards for strategic planning/execution and new product development. He has been a subject matter expert for the American Productivity and Quality Center in Houston for new product development and balanced corporate performance management. Richard has been quoted in numerous articles and books on strategic processes and building the unstoppable financial powerhouse. He has collaborated on several management books including Beyond the Financials and an internal management publication for A.T. Kearney, Inc. targeted at C-level company leadership.

  John Swan

  Global Leader-In-Residence John has worked for GE and Mitsui and Co. for over 20 years in various management positions focused on Business Development and forming Strategic Alliances developing multi-billion dollar markets. In the past 10 years, John has consulted many start-ups, for profits and nonprofits. Key theme is developing strategic alliances and public-private partnerships promoting an "Open-Source" approach for the commercialization of new ideas and growing markets. This business development approach is fusing social media, enterprise social network platforms, open-source commercialization and crowd-sourcing, to drive new commercialization opportunities for both the public and private sectors. John co-founded a public-private consortium with the U.S. Department of Commerce to expand international high technology businesses. This consortium was the international initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley. John has held board seats on the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), San Jose State University Foundation, NASA Ames Technology Commercialization Center, and the Cupertino National Bank and Trust Advisory Board. John has a BS in Physics and a MS in Engineering from SJSU and a MBA from Santa Clara University.