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Robert McElrath, Adjunct Faculty, Master of Business Administration, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Graduate School of Business and Technology

McElrath’s expertise includes marketing management, advertising concept and strategy, marketing research and strategic business market development.

McElrath holds a Doctorate of Education in Leadership from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. He works at Frandsen Financial Corporation as the senior director of marketing and strategic leader. McElrath has been a national conference presenter for many trade association groups on marketing, advertising, database management and strategic campaign development.

Clayton Tenquist, Executive Director of External Affairs - Schools of Graduate and Professional Programs, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, 612-728-5199, tenquist@smumn.edu

Tammy Watson-Schram, Adjunct Faculty, M.S. in Project Management and Master of Business Administration, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Graduate School of Business and Technology

Watson-Schram’s area of expertise is project management. She is the Executive Project Manager at IBM and she has been a speaker for the company at IBM’s Premiere Technical Conference for the past four years.

Watson-Schram obtained a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University before working on her Master’s in Project Management at Stanford University. She holds a M.B.A. from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Clayton Tenquist, Executive Director of External Affairs - Schools of Graduate and Professional Programs, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, 612-728-5199, tenquist@smumn.edu

Richard Brynteson, Ph.D. Professor of Management, Concordia University, St. Paul

Brynteson’s areas of expertise are innovation, organizational development and thinking skills. He has helped organizations both large and small become more innovative in their work processes and product/service offerings, and has helped them build capacity for innovation and become innovators themselves.

Brynteson is the author of Once Upon a Complex Time (2006), a book of stories about systems theory and the practical application of systems thinking to the complexities of business and life. Brynteson holds a Ph.D., in Adult Education and an MBA in Marketing. He has taught at the university level for 20 years and been a corporate consultant for eight years, coaching managers, developing organizations and pushing innovation in organizations.

Jill Johnson, Director of University Marketing & Communications, Concordia University, St. Paul, 651-641-8755, jjohnson@csp.edu