Curtis Odom
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Curtis Odom

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Dr. Curtis Odom is an Associate Teaching Professor of Management and Organizational Development at Northeastern University, and a Senior Council Member at the Forbes Coaches Council. Away from Northeastern, Curtis is a serial entrepreneur, accomplished business owner, best selling author, certified professional coach, and a former Fortune 100 executive who consults, coaches, mentors, and teaches from his experience of getting results. His clients hire him for his depth of business knowledge and ability to motivate, educate and inspire others to achieve higher levels of success, professionally and personally. Curtis aligns leaders’ actions to their vision for their organization, supports them in the execution of key practices and tactics to move initiatives forward, and helps them gain critical knowledge for continued success. Educated as a scholar-practitioner, Curtis' experiences as a management consultant inform both his research, and teaching philosophy. He believes that learning should be experiential and participant-centered and seeks to motivate, inspire, and instill in his students a sense of ownership of their learning journey. His ability to connect academic content to workplace and workforce context is born of his 20-year industry career as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, management consultant, and certified professional coach. Curtis is an international award-winning business transformation executive, and acclaimed management consultant who provides pragmatic advice, coaching, and guidance to company executives, senior leaders, and management teams. He is often called to lead targeted business transformations by helping organizations compete both more effectively and efficiently or to make a strategic pivot. Curtis partners with his clients often during the seismic shifts that an organization must make to accelerate change and strategic growth beyond typical measures or incremental advancements. Curtis earned a Doctor of Education from Pepperdine University, and completed Executive Education programs at both the MIT Sloan School of Management and Cornell University. Prior to his industry and academic careers, Curtis served on active duty for 10 years in the United States Navy which included being deployed during Operation Desert Storm. Curtis' books, articles, and interviews have been featured online and in print nationally with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, CNBC, Ebony, The Globe and Mail, Training Magazine, Inc., and many local publications. 
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