F. Byron (Ron) Nahser

F. Byron (Ron) Nahser, Ph.D. Managing Director for CORPORANTES, Inc., an outgrowth of The Nahser Agency/Advertising, Dr. Nahser is currently a Senior Wicklander Fellow and Director, Urban Sustainable Management Programs at DePaul niversity’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics; and also Provost Emeritus of Presidio School of Management, San Francisco (offering the first accredited MBA in Sustainable Management). He lectures and consults with business and academic audiences in the U.S. and internationally on business values, vision, marketing strategy, branding, social responsibility and integrative sustainable management.

The author of Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business and Journeys to Oxford: Nine Pragmatic Inquiries into the Practice of Values in Business and Education, he has developed a values-driven strategy method known as PathFinder Pragmatic Inquiry ® which has been used by more than 100 organizations and thousands of participants.

He is also a Fellow of the World Business Academy, Curator of the Willis Harman Archive, the Founding Partner of the Oxford Leadership Academy in U.S.A., and Strategic Advisor to the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Secretariat.

Dr. Nahser earned a BA degree from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MA degree in Religious Studies from Loyola/Mundelein College and the Ph.D. in American Business Philosophy from DePaul University.