Dr. Aaron Burgess

Professional Experience

• Corporate Experience
  • Performance Management, Learning and Information Technology Consultant
    Consulted with:
    • Nandina, Inc.
    • Mayo Clinic
    • University of Pittsburgh, Katz Business School
    • Salesforce
    • Southern New Hampshire University
    • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
    • Drees Home, Inc
    • Fischer Homes, Inc
    • Untold Content
    • Learning Mate Performance Solutions
• Higher Education Experience
  • Adjunct Professor of Business, Thomas Moore University, 2020-2023
  • Adjunct Professor of Business & Ethics, Mount St. Joseph University, 1999-2020
  • Dean, School of Business, Cincinnati Christian University, 2013-2019
  • Director of Faculty Development & Instructional Design, Cincinnati Christian
    University, 2003-2013

Published Works & Presentations

• Academic Freedom in Religious Institutions: Critical Issues Regarding Academic Freedom. (July-August 2015). Stone Campbell Journal. Article co-authored by James Sedlacek.
• Developing and Implementing a Credit Based Business Mentoring Program. 2015 Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs Conference. Philadelphia, PA. June 13, 2015.
• Our Brain and Money: Recent Findings in Neuroeconomics
• Stone Campbell Journal Conference, Indianapolis, IN. April 10-11, 2015.
• Academic Freedom & Religious Control: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis into How Seminary Faculty Make Sense of Academic Freedom. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference, Boston, MA.  November 8, 2013.
• Complex Adaptive Systems Theory & Higher Education Institutions. Association for Politics & Life Sciences.  Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 25,
  2013.
• Best Practices for Engaging and Serving Adult Learners. Southern Ohio Council on Higher Education – Ohio Student Affairs Conference, Wright State University, June 14 – 15, 2012.
• Power, Difference & Personal Agency: The Evangelical Short-term Mission Movement in Light of Critical Service-Learning, Co-Presented with Donovan Weber, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Milwaukee, WI. October 28-30, 2011.
• Neuroeconomics: The Brain and Business Leadership. Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. October 13 – 15, 2011.
• What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Religious Consciousness? A Complex Adaptive Systems Framework for Understanding the Religious Brain. American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA. October 2011.
• The religious brain: complex adaptive systems and the origins of religious belief. Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Annual Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. October 14-16, 2010.
• Complex Adaptive Systems and Congregational Failure. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore, MD.  October 28-31, 2010.
• Comprehensive Curriculum Redesign in a Continuing Adult Education Program.”
  Co-Authored with Donovan Weber. Southwestern Ohio Council on Education Conference, March 26, 2010.
• Complex Adaptive Systems Theory and Why Churches Fail. Stone Campbell Journal Conference, Cincinnati, OH.  April 1, 2010.
• E-Learning in Corporate Training and Development.  University of Cincinnati
  Organizational Leadership Program.  Cincinnati, OH.  October, 18, 2017
• Developing a Culture of Ethical Leadership. 2016 West Point Society of Cincinnati
  –Leadership and Ethics Conference. Co-presented with Jennifer Kilgore. Cincinnati, OH.  February 10, 2016
• Choosing Our Leaders: The Mismatch Hypothesis and Why We Follow the Leaders We Do. 2015 Graduate Studies Forum Series.  Presented to the Faculty and Students of the Graduate School & Seminary of Cincinnati Christian University, Cincinnati, OH, March 03, 2015.
• Developing a Culture of Ethical Leadership. 2015 West Point Society of Cincinnati
  –Leadership and Ethics Conference. Co-presented with Jennifer Kilgore. Cincinnati, OH.  February 06, 2015
• Roundtable: Discussion of William Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts: Economists,
  Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Annual Meeting, Emory University. October 18, 2014.
• Framing Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Miami University Center for Community Engagement.  American Institute of Architects Leadership/Vision Conference. January 21, 2011.
• The Role of the Conscience in Moral Decision Making.  Religion Beyond Dogma:
  Interfaith Community Seminars.  Osher Life Long Learning Institute, University of
  Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH, February 5, 2009.
• The Relationship between Science and Religion, Religion Beyond Dogma: Interfaith Community Seminars.  Osher Life Long Learning Institute, University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH, October 9, 2007.

• Doctor of Education, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• Master of Science, Organizational Leadership (Business), Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH
• Master of Arts, Cincinnati Christian University, Cincinnati, OH
• Bachelor of Arts, General Studies, Cincinnati Christian University, Cincinnati, OH