Collaborative Leadership Faculty
UST Executive Education uses an interdisciplinary teaching approach in its programs to address the growing complexity of today’s organizational challenges. Our faculty members offer a blend of academic excellence, rigor and practical application that has real-world relevance. Being a university-based center allows us to tap into the diverse knowledge of our faculty including business, law, psychology and education. In addition, UST Executive Education reaches out to top-notch faculty at other universities, and invites local CEOs to be part of the interdisciplinary faculty team. Faculty are chosen for their ability to achieve exceptional outcomes among adult learners and are skilled in translating current research and theories into applied action plans.
Lead Faculty
Rich Rexeisen, Ph.D., is a professor of marketing at the University of St. Thomas. He has 25 years of experience conducting research, teaching and consulting on issues related to sales & sales management, business development and strategic market planning. His consulting has focused primarily on business development issues; with particular emphasis on the identification, development and matching of unique and relevant value to emerging market needs. He has published in a number of academic and practitioner-focused journals and has presented his research at national and international conferences. His most recent research focuses on issues related to business ethics and how international education impacts the development of moral reasoning and cross-cultural sensitivity. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Minnesota.
Program Faculty
Heino Beckmann, Ph.D., is full-time faculty in the department of finance at the University of St. Thomas. He studied law, international relations, political science, business management and finance at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, at the University of Minnesota, and at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught and lectured in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Croatia, Canada, Uruguay and Taiwan.
Dr. Beckmann is a past President of the Minnesota chapter and a National Director of Financial Executives International, formerly the Financial Executives Institute (FEI). He serves currently on FEI’s Global Oversight Committee. He was also a member of FEI’s Committee on Government Liaison at Washington, D.C., which advised the Congress and the Administration on public finance issues.
Kenneth Goodpaster, Ph.D., earned his A.B. in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and his A.M. and Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Michigan. Goodpaster taught graduate and undergraduate philosophy at the University of Notre Dame throughout the 1970’s before joining the Harvard Business School faculty in 1980, where he developed the ethics curriculum. In 1990 Goodpaster left Harvard to accept the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. At St. Thomas, he teaches in undergraduate, MBA and executive educational programs.
Mary Maloney, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, a masters in international affairs from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Carleton College. Her academic research focuses on the intra-organizational challenges of global organizations. She has published research on global businesses and teams in top academic journals. Prior to her doctoral studies Mary worked for Honeywell Inc. in marketing management for 12 years. Three of those years she was based in Hong Kong managing a product line for the Asia Pacific region. Mary teaches in the areas of international management and organizational behavior. She has worked, studied, lived in or traveled to over 30 countries.
John Olson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the decision sciences department at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Olson has earned a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in operations management and statistics. He has consulted with numerous firms across the Midwest in the areas of Six Sigma and quality management, Lean thinking, theory of constraints, project management, strategic management of operations, and applied decision making.
His primary research interests focus on how companies create value in the supply chain. Dr. Olson’s researched has examined many different industries, including health care, manufacturing, e-commerce, e-services, and logistics. He has published over 20 articles in leading academic journals and trade publications.
Teresa Rothausen-Vange, Ph.D., is a full-time faculty in the management department at the University of St. Thomas. She also conducts research and consults in the areas of organizational behavior and human resource management including work-family and work-life interfaces, intercultural management, gender and diversity, career development, job satisfaction, person-organization fit, recruiting and selection, and career-organization interfaces. Dr. Rothausen-Vange was the founding director of the full-time UST MBA program from 2003-2005. Dr. Rothausen-Vange holds a Ph.D. in industrial relations with specialties in staffing, training and development and organizational behavior/organization theory from the University of Minnesota, a B.A. in economics from St. Olaf College, and a C.P.A.
John Tauer, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at the University of St. Thomas. His research focuses on how competition, cooperation, and achievement goals affect intrinsic motivation, and his work has been published in top psychology journals including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Psychology. John teaches courses in Motivation, Social Psychology, Research Methods, and Cross-Cultural Psychology. John graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and he received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Greg Henderson works as an independent consultant specializing in the areas of organizational development and change, strategic management, human resource development, performance management, leadership development, and executive coaching. Greg is also a partner in Emerging Leadership Associates, LLC, a firm dedicated to the development of mid-level and upper-level executives in both managerial and leadership skills. He received a B.S. degree in human resource development and a master’s degree in human resource development from the University of Minnesota. Greg has also completed his coursework for his Ph.D. in organizational development. He has been an instructor in the College of Education Graduate Program at the University of Minnesota and is currently an instructor in the Executive MBA Program at the University of St. Thomas.