[41] 05-13-2015 - C. RICHARD SMITH, PH.D,PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AND MICHELLE SCULLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY - LAKESIDE CAMPUS, DISCUSS MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND CHALLENGES OF NEW BUSINESSES AND LARGE CORPORATE AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

* C. Richard Smith, Ph.D. is a professor of management at Marymount University - Lakeside Campus in Lucerne, CA, and has taught graduate business students for a decade.   He has written more than a dozen management syllabi that are being used to structure courses for university students.

 

Today's interview on the Taira St. John Show, Dr. Smith will be discussing the importance of academic business training, and the risks involved with or without university training. 

 

Richard began his career as a U.S. Navy officer and helicopter pilot after graduating from Oregon State University.  After a five-year stint he returned to Oregon State University and completed a Masters Degree in Science Education and entered the teaching profession as a physical science instructor in San Jose.  Later, he held teaching positions in Santa Rosa and Ethiopia. 

 

Richard entered the doctoral program at The University of Kansas and earned his PhD in Administration, wth a minor in Business.  Armed with this degree, he accepted the position of Superintendent of the Taipei American School in Taiwan, which he held for four years.  Returning to California, he served as an executive at Stanford University, leading to a position as Executive Director of a Washington, DC  research institute conducting economic research for the international banking industry.

 

Wanting to get back to the school business and California, Richard and a partner started an educational service company providing testing services for California K-12 schools.  Eventually, this led to a position as Vice President of Research and Planning for a major educational software development company located in San Diego. 

 

After retiring from this position, Richard and his wife, Vicky, sailed their sloop from San Diego, through the Panama Canal to Maryland.  During this trip, Richard accepted an  adjunct professor position with Jones International University, writing and teaching distance learning graduate management courses.   After a decade of teaching for JIU, Richard accepted a teaching position with Marymount California University in the School of Business at its facility in Lucerne, California.   Richard and Vicky live in Kelseyville, California.

 

Michelle Scully - Executive Director - Marymount University - Lakeside Campus - Lakeport, CA.

 

With her undergraduate degree in Zoology and her graduate degree in Biology, with an Ecology emphasis, Michelle Scully was an Adjunct Instructor of Biology at Mendocino College, Lake Center Campus, in Lakeport, CA for six years, a natural prelude to her selection as the Executive Director of Lake County's newest and only four-year college, Marymount California University, Lakeside Campus. Michelle admitted to kicking and screaming when she came to the area with her husband in 1995 to respond to his parents' invitation to join them in their pear packing and farming business.  But she soon became so involved in the community and its common goals,along with its people who won her heart that she drawn into her own true love for her  new mountain-lake home. 

 

Michelle's love for the people of Lake was met by their love for her freshness and unique humor, and these new connections may have helped steer her from her dream of having a legitimate career with dogs and horses; she loves the beauty of Lake County, and is intimately involved in its economic development throughout the area.  Her daily involvement with the young  students who ultimately enrolled at Marymount, and their fascinating stories, have further enhanced her natural love of people and being a student of life herself.  

 

Michelle recently presided over the highly-successful all-county Business Summit, which she confessed has been called, "The Super Sexy Edgy Business Expo until wiser voices prevailed. It's no wonder that happiness is one of the major goals and mantras of Marymount, especialy on its Lakeside Campus.  Michelle would probably say, "How hard is that?"