Alexander Zak

Alexander Zak, Ph.D. is an award winning faculty member at UCSD, who teaches a broad range of graduate courses at the Rady School of Management, the Jacobs School of Engineering, and the School of Theater and Dance. He is a thought leader, a trusted adviser and an educator, with a broad range of global experience in building leadership capacity to solve complex business problems, develop insight, execute and drive change. His expertise is in creating business value by orchestrating experiential learning, consulting and coaching engagements focused on visionary outcomes. Zak holds a doctorate in engineering and masters in management. His work and research is in strategic problem solving methodologies, management of complexity in enterprise systems and development of executive leadership capacity. Zak is fluent in English and Russian and is certified in MBTI ®. Zak has taught, coached and served clients, within some of the world's leading multinational corporations and professional service firms for over a decade, including: McKinsey & Co., Booz Allen Hamilton, Egon Zehender, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Warburg Pincus, Permira, Cisco, EMC, Avaya, ViaSat, Ericsson, Infosys, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ford Motor Co., Caterpillar, Ingersoll Rand, Disney, Genentech, CB&I, Skanska and Cargill

Main subject area

Organizational development, Personal development, Marketing, Management, Leadership, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Cross-cultural management, Communication, Change management, Business strategy