About Ellen R. Auster Biography
Ellen R. Auster is Professor of Strategic Management and the Founding Director of the Schulich Centre for Teaching Excellence at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Prior to joining Schulich, she was on the faculty at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and Visiting Faculty at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. She earned her B.A. from Colgate University and her PhD from Cornell University.
Ellen has more than 25 years of experience as an academic and consultant specializing in Stragility® – the art of strategic transitions, transformations and turnarounds. Working with executives and managers to successfully tackle a wide spectrum of strategic challenges in industries ranging from manufacturing and consumer goods to financial services, she creates a shared leadership, stakeholder inclusive, value creating approach that enables the firm to cultivate the short and long-run capabilities needed for continuous evolution and success.
A multiple research and teaching award winner, Ellen has been honored with the prestigious, global, lifetime achievement Academy of Management Distinguished Educator Award. She has also received research awards from the Academy of Management and Management Science, and she has been selected as a Kellogg/Schulich Executive MBA Professor of the Year twice as well as being honored with the Seymour Schulich Award for Teaching Excellence and the Outstanding Educator of the Year Award at York University.
Stragility®:Excelling at Strategic Changes with former Harley Procter Director of Marketing at Procter and Gamble – Lisa Hillenbrand University of Toronto/Rotman Press, 2016
Bridging the Values Gap: How Authentic Organizations Bring Values to Life with R. Edward Freeman, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco, 2015. Stragility was listed by Forbes as the first of “16 Best Books for Creative Leaders”, and Top 3 books in Strategy for Entrepreneurs”. Ellen has written two prior books – Strategic Organizational Change (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005) and Excellence in Business Teaching: A Quick Start Guide (McGraw-Hill Ryerson).
She has been quoted in the business press and appeared on radio and TV including: Business Week, Time, New York Newsday, Economic World, Executive Female, Talk 100 CFRB, WTN, TVO, The Toronto Star, HR Professional Magazine, Newsweek, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Canadian Business, The National Post/Financial Post, Harvard Business Review- HBR.org and USA Today.
