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Meg Brindle is Adjunct faculty at the Heinz DC campus and creator of the Apprenticeship Workshop course designed to integrate classroom learning with the second year apprenticeship. Meg is a graduate of the Heinz School, and earned her PhD from H&SS in Applied History, focused on historical dimensions of health policy. Her first adjunct faculty position was with the Heinz School in Health policy in 1992.
A former teaching faculty of the Tepper School, following a postdoctoral research study in organizational theory, Dr. Brindle has been a tenured faculty in Public and International Affairs at George Mason University in Washington, DC since 2000 where she teaches organizational management, policy, organizational ethics, health policy and consulting management in the government fellows program and Master of Public Administration program. Her expertise has evolved in the area of curriculum and program development. She served as Acting director of the universities Biosciences PhD program; and wrote and launched its Master of Arts Management program in 2003 and served as department chair, authoring 12 of its courses. Author of more than 20 new courses and 2 graduate programs, Dr. Brindle interests are in how managers learn across both public and private sectors. She has overseen an internship-based curriculum and has been internship coordinator and advisor to students in a wide range of government, nonprofits, consulting firms and arts organizations and associations in Washington, DC. Dr. Brindle’s teaching evaluations consistently average 4.8/5.0 scale.
Professor Brindle’s books include Managing power through lateral networking, Quorum, 2001. This book analyzed hundreds of managerial failures, and provides themes of commonality with a problem solving model. A book on management fads provides an international comparative perspective on management faddism and causative elements of faddism. Her works in progress include a book detailing new directions in arts management that highlights innovative and entrepreneurial arts and cultural policy impact.
Teaching at Heinz,Washington, DC include the Apprenticeship Workshop and a Systems Synthesis course. The Systems course will provide a feasibility study for an innovative nonprofit, Light Years IP (www.lightyearsip.net) that has made appreciable gains toward alleviating poverty in SubSaharan Africa through the use of intellectual property tools applied to indigenous products such as Ethiopian coffee and creative industries. Check out light years because what CEO Ron Layton is doing to pour millions of dollars into sustainable development in Africa is, by far, more interesting than anything in this bio :-)
Education
PhD in Applied History from Carnegie Mellon University (H&SS)