| Blair Sheppard
Chair of the Board
Blair Sheppard is the Chair of the Duke CE board of directors. He is also the Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Before assuming the role of Chair and taking on the responsibilities of Dean of Fuqua, Blair was the founder and CEO of Duke CE. When he created the company in July 2000, Duke CE was the first full-service provider of customized, enterprise-wide management education to global organizations. Under Blair's leadership, Duke CE grew from one office, 39 employees and $12 million in revenue, to five offices on three continents, 140 employees and $56 million in revenue seven years later.
Prior to Duke CE, Blair was the Senior Associate Dean of Fuqua. He played a leading role in the creation of two innovative management education programs at Fuqua. He conceived The Duke MBA - Global Executive in 1996 and was instrumental in the school's key global strategy. He has extensive experience working with leading executives as a consultant and teacher in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy, negotiation, organizational relationships and organization design.
He has consulted to over 100 companies and governments in the areas of corporate strategy, relationship management, structure, and leadership, including Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, ABB, AT&T, the Canadian Government, Ernst & Young, Ford, LaFarge, Morgan Stanley, Norfolk Southern, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, Toronto Dominion Bank, United States Postal Service, and Wachovia. His extensive research has been on the same topics with over 50 books and articles.
Blair received his BA and MA from the University of Western Ontario and his PhD in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois.
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