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William M. Donaldson

Luter School of Business - Center for Sustainability in Education - Department of Accounting and Finance

William Donaldson

Associate Professor

Luter Hall 126
(757) 594-7836
william.donaldson@cnu.edu

Education

  • Ph D in Systems Engineering, George Washington University
  • MBA in Business, The College of William and Mary
  • BS in Manufacturing and Management, North Carolina State University

Teaching

Dr. Donaldson is an Assistant Professor in Finance. He teaches Advanced Financial Statement Analysis, Entrepreneurial Finance, Strategic Management, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Systems Thinking, as well as multiple capstone classes. Dr. Donaldson is the Director of the Luter Business Institute.

Research

Areas of research interest: Strategic Management Systems; Corporate Universities and their impact on performance; Family business issues, dynamics and transitions; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Systems Thinking; and Corporate Governance and Board Performance.

Biography

Dr. William (Willy) Donaldson has over 35 years of experience as a Board member and President and has been CEO of 8 companies and over 30 years of experience in higher education. Willy is the Founder and President of Strategic Venture Planning, a management consulting firm that assists boards, investors and senior management teams maximize results.

Selected Accomplishments

  • Faculty Excellence Award for Graduate Student Mentoring, Christopher Newport University. (2024)
  • Best Practices Paper Award 2023, Small Business Institute. (2023)
  • Paul Dunn Memorial Scholarship Award 2023, Small Business Institute. (2023)
  • Top Cited Article 2021-2022, Wiley - Journal of Leadership Studies. (2023)
  • Faculty Excellence Award for Service, Christopher Newport University. (2021)
  • Faculty Excellence Award in Interdisciplinarity, Christopher Newport University. (2020)
  • Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, CNU Alumni Society. (2019)
  • Distinguished Paper Award 2018-19, Small Business Institute. (2019)
  • Class of 2013 Faculty Development Award, Office of the Provost. (2018)
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2024). The Broken Business Model in Higher Education. Trusteeship.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A Leadership Followership Inversion. Who's Leading Who?. Leadership/Sage.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2024). Family and Family Business Intersections, Failure Modes, and Recommendations: Notes From the Field. Small Business Institute Journal.
  • Newspaper
    (2024). Is a corporate university right for your business?. Va Pilot and Daily Press.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Case study learning - A critical leadership development tool.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Making Leadership Manifest Through a Corporate University.
  • Newspaper
    (2023). Getting yourself and your business ready for transition or sale Part 2. Va Pilot and Daily Press.
  • Newspaper
    (2023). Getting yourself and your business ready for transition or sale. Va Pilot and Daily Press.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2023). The Systems Thinking Case for the Liberal Arts. Journal of Systems Thinking.
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2023). Leading in Ecosystems. Developing Leaders Quarterly. Issue, 41. Pages, 105-117.
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2023). How to Effectively Plan for Digital Transformation. Strategy Magazine. Volume, Spring 2023. Issue, 38. Pages, 16-18.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2023). Systems Thinking. SAGE Publications Inc.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2023). Bureaucracy. SAGE Publications Inc. Pages, 1120.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Black Mirror: Heterotopias and the US Capitol Breach of January 6th.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2021). Enlightenment 2.0. Journal of Leadership Studies/Wiley. Volume, 15. Issue, 3.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2021). Symposium Introduction. Journal of Leadership Studies/Wiley. Volume, 15. Issue, 3.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2021). Evidence of an Archetypal Management Framework. Journal of Small Business Institute. Volume, 17. Issue, 1.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2021). Humankind as a Series of Nested Systems: The Search for Leadership in Us and Around. Journal of Leadership Studies/Wiley. Volume, 15. Issue, 2.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2021). Postface – Introduction to Issue 2. Journal of Leadership Studies/Wiley. Volume, 15. Issue, 2.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2021). Leadership as System Holon. Journal of Leadership Studies. Volume, 15. Issue, 2.
  • Newspaper
    (2020). Consider the duties of citizenship this year. Va Pilot and Daily Press.
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2020). High-Performance Governance Is All About the Quality of the Questions Asked.. Trusteeship. Volume, 28. Issue, 1. Pages, 21-23.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2019). Towards an Integrated, Holistic Approach to Teaching Strategy. Small Business Institute Journal. Volume, 15. Issue, 1. Pages, 93-103.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2019). Leadership in a Constant Liminal Loop: How can I be Authentic when I don't know who I am?. Journal of Leadership Studies. Volume, 13. Issue, 3. Pages, 6-14.
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2019). Systems Theory and Governance: An Educational Relationship. Trusteeship. Volume, 27. Issue, 1.
  • Conference Proceeding
    Leadership in a Constant Liminal Loop. International Leadership Association.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2017). In Praise of the“Ologies”: A Discussion of and Framework for Using Soft Skills to Sense and Influence Emergent Behaviors in Socio-Technical Systems. System Engineering. Volume, 20. Issue, 5. Pages, 467-478.
  • Book, Non-Scholarly-New
    (2017). Simple_Complexity: A management book for the rest of us. Morgan James Publishing. Pages, 214.
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    (2015). An Examination of the Role of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks in Enterprise Transformation. Journal of Enterprise Transformation/Taylor and Francis. Volume, 5. Issue, 3. Pages, 218-240.
  • Conference Proceeding
    (2013). Managing the Enterprise - A System of Systems Approach: Applying Systems Thinking Techniques to the Management of the Enterprise – Points of View from the System. CSER (Conference on Systems Engineering Research).
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (1999). The New Employer-Employee Contract: A CEO's Perspective on Employer and Employee Success. Quorum Books. Pages, 183-198.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (1999). The New Employer-Employee Contract: A CEO's Perspective on Employer and Employee Success. Quorum Books. Pages, 183-198.
  • William Donaldson, Start, Grow, Thrive: Succeeding in Business Series, "How to fund your business - Entrepreneurial and Growth Finance," Newport News. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, Start, Grow, Thrive: Succeeding in Business Series, "Planning for growth - Formal strategic planning," Newport News. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, Start, Grow, Thrive: Succeeding in Business Series, "Government Contracting 101," Newport News. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, Start, Grow, Thrive: Succeeding in Business Series, "Identifying the right customers," Newport News. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, Start, Grow, Thrive: Succeeding in Business Series, "Starting your business," Newport News. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, INCOSE Technical Leadership Institute, "Systems Engineering Re-envisioned Hard Truths about the Soft Stuff," Global. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, Start, Grow, Thrive: Succeeding in Business Series, "Systems Thinking - Your System of Management," Newport News. (2024)
  • William Donaldson, Small Business and Supplier Diversity Fair 2023, "Competing with Confidence: Small Business Bidding and Contracts," Newport News, VA. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, Red Team Thinking Podcast, "Simple_Complexity Book review," On-line. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, TSOE Podcast, "Simple_Complexity Book review," On-line. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, 2023 Rising Tide - Accelerating the Regional Economy, "2023 Rising Tide," Newport News. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, The CFO Bookshelf Podcast, "Simple_Complexity Book review," On-line. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, Global Followership Conference, "At the core of followership is personhood - We start there.," Newport News. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, Global Followership Conference, "Primacy: In Democracies and the Fight to Save Our Planet, Followers Must Take the Lead," Newport News. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, Lifelong Learning Society, "Systems Thinking in a Complex World," Newport News. (2023)
  • William Donaldson, Innovation Discovery Event, Newport News, VA. (2022)
  • William Donaldson, ILA Annual Conference, "Personhood," Washington, DC and Virtual. (2022)
  • William Donaldson, Forum on Aging, "Navigating Difficult Conversations," Hampton, VA. (2022)
  • William Donaldson, Sarah Chace, International Studying Leadership Conference - Rebooting Leadership, "RE-BOOTING DEMOCRACY IN THE US: Interpreting the Capitol Insurrection of January 6th," Virtual. (2021)
  • William Donaldson, Basics of Crypto Currencies, "Basics of Crypto Currencies," Isle of Wight County. (2021)
  • William Donaldson, Annual Conference, "What is Interdisciplinary Leadership and How Do We Teach It (Well)?," virtual. (2021)
  • William Donaldson, Momentum 2021, "We need to talk : Enabling the conversation between business and engineering about organizational change.," Virtual. (2021)
  • William Donaldson, Personhood Conference, "In the system, personhood is a both/and proposition, and so is leadership," Virtual. (2021)
  • William Donaldson, Systems Engineering Research Council, "What does digital transformation look like from the C-Suite?," Virtual. (2021)
  • William Donaldson, Global Systems Engineering Expert Forum, "Systems Engineering Re-envisioned - Hard Truths about the Soft Stuff," International (virtual). (2020)
  • William Donaldson, Kick-off Event, "Systems Thinking for the Liberal Arts," Online. (2020)
  • William Donaldson, PMI Chapter Meeting, "Digital Enterprise Transformation," On-line. (2020)
  • William Donaldson, Small Business Institute - Annual Conference, "Evidence of an Archetypal Management Framework," New Orleans, LA. (2020)
  • Angela Spranger, William Donaldson, Nathan Harter, ILA Global Conference, "Why People Stay: Culture as Context," Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (2019)
  • William Donaldson, "Faculty Development Grant," Sponsored by Office of the Provost
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