Educator Network

Thunderbird Educator Network

The core of the Thunderbird Educator Network is its global array of distinguished full-time faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management and affiliated faculty members, industry experts, coaches, and trainers from around the globe. These top-quality educators have consistently been ranked among the best Executive Education faculty by Financial Times.

Thunderbird faculty members are recognized for their experience, diversity, pragmatic research, global business knowledge and applied program design. In addition to our full-time faculty, we also employ more than 20 trainers at Thunderbird’s Center for Business Skills Development in Moscow, Russia. Thunderbird is able to draw from the content and experience of this group in order to deliver exemplary education around the globe.

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The Thunderbird Educator Network also is composed of affiliated faculty members, thought leaders, industry experts, executives, coaches, facilitators and trainers to meet our clients’ needs around the world. With the breadth of the Thunderbird Educator Network, clients have many choices related to:

Thunderbird Executive Education can deploy a network of approximately 200 educators on five continents who have the capability and capacity to deliver dynamic global learning solutions.

Featured bios

Andreas Schotter, Ph.D.
A dual Canadian and German citizen, Andreas Schotter, Ph.D., is professor of strategic management at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Schotter was a senior executive in Europe and Asia and jointly owned and operated a business in Australia, China and Hong Kong. He has consulted or worked globally in the automotive, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, renewable energy and service industries.

Lisa Bodell
Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of futurethink, an internationally recognized innovation research and training firm that helps businesses embrace change and become world-class innovators. She founded futurethink on the premise that everyone has the power to innovate – they just need to know how. Clients such as 3M, GE and Johnson & Johnson look to futurethink to develop new styles of thinking and generate innovative ideas.