Faculty: Walter Stevenson

Walter Stevenson, DBA

Title(s):
Professor
School(s):
Business, Undergraduate
415-442-6527
Campus(es):
San Francisco
wstevenson@ggu.edu
Walter Stevenson

Dr. Walter Stevenson enjoys teaching the Social Responsibility course in the EMBA program, integrating current events into the study of the topic. He has been on the faculty at GGU since 1971, and has since been involved in facilitation at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) of the Creative Education Foundation.

Stevenson's work with creative problem solving outside the classroom most recently has been with Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary One Touch, as they were innovating on their product design. He recently worked on a problem solving team for Visa, as they explored product enhancements. He is a volunteer leader in the Facilitating Creative Leadership program a six-level training program designed to develop exceptional facilitators and has served as its director.

Stevenson's teaching of creativity and facilitation has taken him to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, American Samoa, Canada, China, Czech Republic, and Brazil. In Billund, Denmark, the international headquarters of the Lego Company, he became an approved Lego Serious Play facilitator, using Lego bricks as part of the facilitation process. He likes to spend some of his spare time watercolor painting, and most recently has started to make paintings with dyes on silk.

COURSES TAUGHT

EMBA 480
Government and the Legal Environment
MGT 140
Management Principles
MGT 300
Managerial Analysis and Team Dynamics
MGT 338
The Manager as Communicator
EMBA 345
Contextual Environment of Business

RESEARCH INTERESTS & AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

  • Human Resource and Management

EDUCATION

  • AB, English Literature, University of California, Berkeley
  • MBA, DBA, General Management, Golden Gate University

PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 1972 - Present: Full-Time Faculty, Golden Gate University
  • Retail Store Management
  • College and University Administration
  • Creative Education Foundation
  • MBTI Approved

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

HONORS & AWARDS

  • Judith E. Browning Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2008