Greg Obi

Associate Professor of Management

Chillicothe Campus

obi@ohio.edu

Education

Ph.D.: Indiana Institute of Technology (Fort Wayne, IN), Major: Global Leadership/Organizational Management
MBA: Purdue University, Major: Management
Post Graduate Diploma: Enugu State University of Science & Technology (Enugu, Nigeria), Major: Mass Communications Higher National Diploma: Institute of Management & Technology (Enugu, Nigeria), Major: Mass Communication

Comparative leadership and organizational management paradigms as they relate to how diverse cultures conceive management concepts like empowerment and motivation of employees
Focus is on how variables like gender, socioeconomic power, and culture influence employees’ perception of these management tools, contrasting these findings between developing countries and developed countries
Performance of corporate and political leadership in both worlds, reasons for failure and success, and if such reasons are culturally influenced

August 2015 - Present: Assistant Professor and Campus Coordinator for Business Management Technology at Ohio University (Chillicothe)
Summer 2010 - Spring 2018: Adjunct Faculty/Part-time Instructor for College of Professional Studies at Indiana Institute of Technology (Munster Campus)
January 2008 - Fall 2018: Adjunct Faculty/Limited Term Lecturer for College of Business at Purdue University Calumet
August 2008 - July 2015: Adjunct Faculty/Part-time Instructor for School of Business at Ivy Tech College (Northwest)
2005 - 2007: Graduate Aide/Research Assistant for MBA Program for School of Management at Purdue University
1999 - 2004: Manager of Corporate Affairs Department for Sovereign Trust Insurance, Ltd. in Lagos, Nigeria

Fela Kuti: The Man, his music, the Activist.
Book chapter in Grassroots Leadership & the Arts for Social Change; a Volume in the ILA Series Building Leadership Bridges edited by Susan J. Erenrich and Jon F. Wergin. Publication date; March 2017.
Universal Banking and its Impact in the Insurance Industry
Published in “The Underwriter’ (Journal of the department of Insurance & Actuarial Science, University of Lagos, Nigeria, 2002.

2020: ACUE’s Certification in Effective College Instruction
2019: VoiceThread Master Class Diploma
2017: Certified VoiceThread Educator
2008: Online (Blackboard) Faculty Certification Ivy Tech Community College Northwest