Stan Abraham, Ph.D.

Stan Abraham is a strategist, professor, consultant, and speaker. As professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Cal Poly Pomona, he teaches strategic management and entrepreneurship courses in its MBA, Professional MBA, and undergraduate programs (scabraham@cuspomona.edu). His consulting firm, Future By Design, helps organizations "create their future by design, not by default." He is highly skilled at getting organizations to change to be more competitive and profitable (futurebydesign.biz and stan@futurebydesign.biz). He co-founded and is past president and board member of the Association for Strategic Planning.

Stan's second book, Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success, with CD-ROM, Thomson South-Western, 2006 is available for sale at the conference. He is on the Board of Contributing Editors for the prestigious journal Strategy & Leadership, and has published many articles in that journal, including reports of every one of ASP's conferences since 2001. Stan earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of London, England, his master's degree from MIT Sloan, and his doctorate in management from UCLA (now UCLA Anderson).

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