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	DENNIS BRISTOW, Ph.D. Professor, St. Cloud State University Dennis N. Bristow is a Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean in the G.R. Herberger College of Business, at St. Cloud State University. Dr. Bristow works in the areas of consumer behavior, cross-cultural marketing, and personal selling have appeared in over 50 academic and professional journals and have been presented at numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Bristow is also the Director of the Office of Business Research for the Herberger College of Business and serves on the editorial review board of several academic/practitioner journals. Dr. Bristow co-instructs the marketing module of the Managers’ Forum. Dr. Bristow received his B.S. degree in Psychology in 1989, and M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 1991. Dr. Bristow received his Ph.D. in Business Administration and Marketing from Oklahoma State University in 1995. JOANNE KUDRNA, MBA Consultant, Venture Allies, LLC Joanne Kudrna serves as a strategy instructor for the Managers’ Forum. Joanne is also a consultant with Venture Allies; a St. Cloud based consulting firm. She works with clients in strategy development and implementation, organizational design, industry and competitive analysis, and effective leadership. Prior to her consulting work, Joanne spent eight years working in the manufacturing industry, six of them with a global technology and manufacturing leader. She has experience as a project manager, business analyst, and market development manager. She has also worked extensively as a leader and fundraiser in non-profit organizations, and currently serves on the board of the Great River Regional Library. Ms. Kudrna graduated from Carthage College with a major in Business, and earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. JOHN C. LERE, Ph.D. Professor, St. Cloud State University Dr. Lere is a Professor of Accounting at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. From 1993 - 1997, he served as chairperson of St. Cloud State University’s accounting department. Dr. Lere is the author of two books and numerous articles. His current research efforts are in the area of codes of ethics and differences in managerial accounting practices across countries. Dr. Lere teaches the accounting module for the Managers’ Forum. Dr. Lere received his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the degree of Master in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, and his bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. Before joining the St. Cloud State University faculty, he was a faculty member at Illinois State University and the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. MICHAEL J. PESCH, Ph.D. Professor, St. Cloud State University Dr. Pesch is the MBA Director and Professor of Operations Management at the G.R. Herberger College of Business, St. Cloud State University. He teaches service operations management, introduction to operations management, and the MBA core operations course. Dr. Pesch’s research interests are in customer satisfaction, service design, and focused manufacturing. He is a regular columnist for ROI Central Minnesota, a St. Cloud Times quarterly business publication. Dr. Pesch has a Ph.D. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Minnesota. He also has an M.S. in Agricultural Economics and an MBA from Ohio State University. Dr. Pesch has been on the St. Cloud State University faculty for nineteen years and serves on the Board of the Anderson Entrepreneurial Center.
	RICHARD SEBASTIAN, Ph.D. Professor, St. Cloud State University Dr. Sebastian is Chair and Professor of Management at St. Cloud State University. His primary teaching responsibilities and interests are Organizational Behavior and Organization Theory. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame and in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Sebastian's research interests include interpersonal aggression, conflict, and civility at work; managing difficult employees; negative work motivation; determinants of status; brand and organizational loyalty; and workplace spirituality. He has published review and research papers on most of these issues. In his organizational consulting he has guided the implementation of TQM; served as a quality advisor for project teams; surveyed internal customer-supplier relations and employee needs; written job descriptions; and evaluated organizational structure, committee structure and dynamics, management practices and effectiveness, and management/labor relations. He has also facilitated constructive resolution of interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup conflict within organizational settings. He is a trained university mediator. Dr. Sebastian teaches the management module for the Managers’ Forum. Dr. Sebastian earned his B.A. in Psychology from Lewis College and M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His professional memberships include the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Midwestern Psychological Association, and the International Society for Research on Aggression. KENNETH SCHNEIDER, Ph.D. Professor, St. Cloud State University Kenneth C. Schneider is a Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Marketing Research in the G.R. Herberger College of Business at St. Cloud State University. Ken has authored nearly 100 articles that have appeared in numerous professional magazines including Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He has also co-authored a text, QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT. Dr. Schneider co-instructs the marketing module of the Managers’ Forum. Dr. Schneider received a B.A. degree in Economics in 1970 and a M.S. degree in Quantitative Analysis in 1972 and received a Ph.D. in Quantitative Analysis and Marketing from the University of Minnesota in 1975.