Chris is a second year student at the Berkeley School of Information pursuing a Master of Information Management and Systems with a focus on Product Management and Data Visualization. Prior to joining Berkeley, Chris was the Creative Director and co-founder of design and web agency Mobile First Studios, led mobile product design at Environmental Systems… Read More »
Group: Teaching Team
Teaching Team
Dan Himelstein
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations, Teaming & Project Management, Global Leadership Expertise, Coaching for High Performing Teams
Dan Himelstein has been a senior executive in both academia and business and has worked in a variety of organizational settings, ranging from the large and complex to the small and entrepreneurial. In the business world, Dan has extensive international experience, having worked with numerous start-ups as a founder, executive, director, and consultant and in… Read More »
Edward Kass
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations
Professor Kass draws from his own research on conflict resolution, social comparison and fairness, and what it means to be a good employee. More recently, Dr. Kass is focusing on the drivers/aspects that serve or hinder the process of successful negotiations. He is also working with students to examine the impact of alliances, biases, personal… Read More »
Elizabeth Kovats
Lecturer, Innovation & Design
Elizabeth Kovats teaches innovation and design at Berkeley Haas. She has created new courses at Berkeley Haas and BerkeleyLaw in the area of design thinking. Elizabeth served as the Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on Applied Innovation and Design, BRAID, and she regularly collaborates with innovation executives based in Silicon Valley. Her area of interest… Read More »
Heidi Kritscher Weller
Communications for Engineering Leaders; Coaching for High Performing Teams
Heidi has over 15 years experience coaching executives and Haas MBA students, drawing from her diverse professional experience in international consulting, startups, and public/nonprofit environments. She most recently co-developed the UC Berkeley Haas Global Access Program, where she taught leadership practices and coached undergrad and graduate students from across the globe. She is an active… Read More »
Ingrid Gavshon
Lecturer, Executive Coach and Communications Specialist
Ingrid Gavshon serves as a lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, for EWMBA/EMBA, and Undergraduate Programs; Seminar in International Business (South Africa), Leader as Coach and Leadership Communications and Creativity and Leadership, and at UC Berkeley Executive Education’s course High Impact Leadership. She is a partner at the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute in… Read More »
Jack Mason
Entrepreneurship for Engineers
Jack is an entrepreneur, executive, engineer, educator, and consultant with more than 40 years of experience in the energy industry. He started several businesses as both an entrepreneur and intrapreneur, raised venture capital for one; and led several to acquisitions. He managed directly or indirectly more than 1000 energy-related projects, some as large as $10… Read More »
Janel Wellborn
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations; Product Management
Janel runs a global boutique consulting firm with Fortune 500 clients (e.g. Walmart International, Macy’s, H&M, Latam Airlines, etc.) across North & South America, Europe and Asia. She embeds herself within her clients’ organizations to transform their culture by shifting mindsets at all levels, helping them make many small changes in their ways of working… Read More »
Jennifer Caleshu
Communications for Engineering Leaders
Jennifer Caleshu is a lecturer, facilitator and certified executive coach for programs in leadership, communications, design thinking and innovation who believes every human deserves the opportunity to bring their most authentic and powerful self to work every day. She is a member of the professional faculty at the University of California’s Haas School of Business… Read More »
Jennifer Yang
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations; Marketing and Product Management; Power of Diversity and Inclusion for Engineering Leaders
Jennifer Yang holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Marketing and Multinational Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Master in Public Administration with a focus in Leadership from Virginia Tech, Center for Public Administration and Policy. In addition to the Fung Institute, she teaches at Western Oregon University… Read More »
