Peter Stark

Chaos Navigator / Endowed Professor / Cross-cultural Organizational Effectiveness & Leadership Consultant / Coach / Speaker

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

About

Recognized internationally as a passionate and engaging educator as well as a culturally sensitive, insightful and accomplished strategist/“change master” with specific expertise in cross-cultural organizational effectiveness/culture change initiatives and cross-cultural leadership. Honored as “Professor of the Year” in 2007 at the University of Minnesota (Duluth); currently teaching full time MBA courses in Leadership, Strategy, and Global Business Management and consulting worldwide in the areas of strategy, change and organizational effectiveness (including cross-cultural effectiveness). Background includes long term residence and extensive work experience in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Korea) along with significant work experience in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Turkey, Mexico, Peru, Colombia. Academic background includes an MBA and post-grad studies (doctoral) in Organization Change. Specialties: design and delivery of both individual and organizational human performance improvement initiatives at all levels and across all functions of complex organizations as well as within emerging economies and across multiple cultures; Cross-cultural organizational effectiveness; Cross-cultural Leadership development; Executive coaching and mentoring; Strategy development, transformational leadership/change management, organizational culture change, international marketing.

Experience

  • Marcia Page & John Heupenbecker Endowed Professor of International Business & Entrepreneurship at Gustavus Adolphus College
    Aug 2018 - Present · 8 yrs

    Full-time instructor in Leadership, Strategy/Change Management and Global Business Management.

  • Owner at Chaos Navigation, Inc.
    Jan 1999 - Present · 27 yrs 7 mos

    Worldwide consultancy and executive coaching practice in the areas of leadership development, cross-cultural change, cross-cultural organizational effectiveness, global strategy and systems thinking. I work at all levels and across all functions of complex organizations as well as within emerging economies and across multiple cultures to deliver consistently superior results in the design and delivery of human performance improvement initiatives. Services include executive mentorship as well as design, development and delivery of specific organizational effectiveness interventions.

  • Visiting Professor at Aalto / Helsinki School of Economics
    2003 - Present · 23 yrs 7 mos

    Teach courses in Change Leadership and Power & Influence to Executive MBA students in Asia and Eastern Europe

  • Institute of Management Berlin (11 yrs 8 mos)
    • Visiting Professor
      2007 - Aug 2018 · 11 yrs 8 mos

    • Professor
      2009 - 2010 · 1 yr

  • Assistant Professor at Augsburg University
    Sep 2007 - May 2018 · 10 yrs 9 mos

    Full-time instructor in Leadership, Strategy/Change Management and Global Business Management. Consistently recognized for teaching excellence.