AI Maturity Accelerator
A structured path for leadership teams to assess where their organization stands on AI and build a roadmap to the next level of maturity.
Teaching
Teaching
Thousands of undergraduate, graduate, executive, and doctoral students at Emory University, Carnegie Mellon University, and The University of Texas at Austin, in courses spanning AI strategy, big data, analytics, and digital transformation.
Recognition
Teaching awards.
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2025
IEEE Atlanta Outstanding Educator Award
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2025
MSBA Distinguished Core Educator Award, Goizueta Business School
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2024
MSBA Distinguished Core Educator Award, Goizueta Business School
- 2023
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2023
MSBA Distinguished Core Educator Award, Goizueta Business School
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2021
MSBA Distinguished Core Educator Award, Goizueta Business School
Courses
Executive education
Programs that help senior leaders and their teams turn AI and data into strategy and results.
Leveraging AI for Business
What generative and predictive AI can do today, where it creates value across functions, and how to pick the first use cases.
Leveraging AI for the Energy Industry
AI applications across energy operations, from forecasting and asset maintenance to grid and trading decisions.
Leveraging AI for the Software Industry
How AI is changing how software is built, sold, and supported, and what that means for product and engineering leaders.
Leveraging AI for the Finance Industry
AI in financial services, from risk, fraud, and compliance to customer experience, and the controls regulators expect.
Driving ROI with Analytics: Data Analytics for Leaders
How leaders frame the right questions, read analyses critically, and turn data into decisions with measurable returns.
AI and the Future of Work
How AI reshapes jobs, skills, and teams, and how to redesign work and reskill people for human–AI collaboration.
Data as a Driver of Business Value
Treating data as a strategic asset: where its value comes from, how to govern it, and how to build data-driven products and decisions.
AI and the Art of What’s Possible
A tour of what today’s AI can and cannot do, with live demonstrations that help leaders imagine new possibilities for their business.
Developing AI Strategy for Competitive Advantage
Building an AI strategy tied to competitive advantage: choosing where to play, prioritizing investments, and governing AI responsibly.
Programs delivered for leaders at UPS, Southern Nuclear, INPO, Aptean, and Oversight AI.
Courses
Graduate professional teaching
MBA and MSBA at Emory; MSIT and MSIS at Carnegie Mellon.
Managing Big Data
Core course on managing data at scale, from relational design to warehousing and pipelines, with an emphasis on querying and data modeling.
Data Management, Analytics, and AI
Data fluency for future leaders and founders: SQL for structuring and retrieving data, then AI-assisted analytics in Python. Teams finish with a working prototype of an AI-powered startup.
Cybersecurity for Business Leaders
How leaders assess and govern cyber risk: the threats that hit businesses, how attacks unfold, and how to prepare, respond, and recover.
Vibe Coding for Business Insights
Building analyses and data tools by directing AI coding assistants in plain English, then checking and refining what they produce to turn raw business data into insight.
IT Project Management
Planning, running, and recovering technology projects, with hands-on use of project management tools.
Object-Oriented Analysis & Design
Modeling software systems before building them, from requirements to object-oriented designs.
Courses
Undergraduate teaching
BBA at Emory and at The University of Texas at Austin.
Applied Data Analytics with Coding
Managing and analyzing data for business decisions: SQL for data management, then Python for wrangling, visualization, text mining, and machine learning, ending with a team project on a real dataset.
Agent-Based Systems (Agentic AI)
Designing AI agents that plan, use tools, and act on their own to automate business workflows, and the governance needed to deploy them safely.
AWS & Cloud Computing with AI
Building and deploying data and AI applications in the cloud, from storage and compute to managed AI services.
Strategic Information Technology Management
Case-based capstone on aligning technology with strategy, anchored by a data-driven strategy project.
Courses
Teaching assistant & co-instructor
Supporting courses at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California.
Managing in Virtual Environments
How teams and organizations work, lead, and collaborate in virtual and immersive environments.
Digital Transformations
Case-based core course on how information-enabled systems are transforming society and business.
Interactive Marketing
How digital technologies drive customer reach, acquisition, and engagement.
Telecommunications Management
Technical concepts and cases on using telecommunications technologies to run businesses efficiently.
Object-Oriented Programming with C++
Foundations of object-oriented programming for building robust, reusable software.
3D Graphics and Rendering
Principles of 3D modeling and rendering for interactive and immersive applications.