Meg Brindle
Professor
Research interests: Management, ethics, policy, consulting, and organizational studies. Current projects center on new models of management in nonprofits.
Meg Brindle, PhD holds a Masters degree in Public Management from the J. Heinz III School of Management and Public Management and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, along with postdoctoral studies in Organizational Behavior and Theory. Prior to coming to George Mason University in 2000, she was a full time teaching faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University MBA school and Public Policy School, where she has taught MBA, PhD, Executive Education and undergraduate organizational management and theory for 5 years as well as health policy and healthcare management.
Meg has been teaching for 19 years, and has taught over 100 courses in management, nonprofit management, ethics, policy, arts management, international management, internship workshops, consulting management, and organizational studies to audiences ranging from mid-career state, local and federal government employees, MBA, MPA, PhD, undergraduate, health care administrators, and arts Managers and the George Mason University Government Fellows in the Master of Public Administration program.
Awarded tenure at George Mason University in Public and International Affairs in 2002, she was invited to author and launchthe Master of Arts Management program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2004. She authored 12 new course syllabi and saw the program into its SCHEV approvals, and a unique internal/external internship model, including its International Comparative Arts Organizations course. This program s designed to assist practicing artists and nonprofit managers to transition into managing in the arts and policy positions.
She was also Acting Director of the Biosciences PhD program in 2002, to assist its launch, and designed the curriculum for its Bioethics PhD track. Along with this, she co-authored with Richard Lebovitz, Esq. a summer bioethics program through the Office of Global Education.
Her current research projects center on new models of management in nonprofits. More specifically, her work with sustainable development with the nonprofit Light years IP – a nonprofit social entrepreneurship enterprise supported by the Ashoka Foundation (www.lightyearsip.net) has resulted in research in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. This book highlights Light years use of intellectual property tools to assist developing countries to find more value for their products ranging from cultural tourism to creative industries and products with distinctiveness such as Ethiopian coffee.
In the MPA program, she has taught Organizational Management, Ethics in Public Administration, Government Fellows cohorts, Health policy, and Consulting Management.
In the Master of Arts Management, her courses include drafting 11 new courses for SCHEV and internal approvals including: Seminar in Arts Management; Comparative Arts Organizations; IT in Arts Management; Professional Development in Arts Organizations; Festivals and Special Events; and the Internal and External Internship courses.
Meg is author of several books, including one used in her PUAD 620 course for several years -- Managing Power through Lateral Networking, Quorum books, 2001), and with Peter N. Stearns, Facing up to Management Faddism, Quorum, 2001, along with many articles. The work currently in progress is a book on Internships –“Integrating the University and Internship experience toward a better model of learning for higher education.” This book is specifically aimed at providing a best practices model for interns in public management and consulting and demonstrating how the classroom-internship experience can be better bridged.
An educational consultant, Dr. Brindle has created over 20 new courses at the MBA, MPA and MAM curriculum, along with spearheading two very successful George Mason new graduate programs.
Email: mbrindle@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.8381
Office: 4260 Chain Bridge Road A101A
