Professional Organizations

Current:   
        Member, American Marketing Association
        Member, Association for Consumer Research

Former:       
        Member, American Academy of Advertising
        Member, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
        Accredited (APR) by Public Relations Society of America
        Member, Academy of Marketing Science
        Director, North Central Blood Services Region, American Red Cross
        Director & national assembly delegate, Public Relations Society of America, Minnesota Chapter
        Director, Public Relations Society of America, Hawaii Chapter
        Faculty advisor, Public Relations Student Society of America ,
            University of St. Thomas Chapter
        Professional advisor, Public Relations Student Society of America,
            University of Hawaii Chapter
        PR division delegate-at-large, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
        Trustee, Honolulu Theatre for Youth
        Member, Aloha United Way public relations council
        Member, Pacific and Asian Affairs Council
        Member, International Association of Business Communicators
        Member, Society for Marketing Advances


Leadership and Professional Activities

Supervised numerous independent studies, co-ops and theses

Proposed and created new MBA core course, “Executive Communication & Leadership” (2002); supervised nine instructors who taught more than 350 students in 23 sections of the course (2002-03)

Member, search committees for new College of Business dean and new marketing faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2001-2

Member of College Educational Planning Committee (CEPC), Fairleigh Dickinson University, College of Business (2000-)

Chair, special session on "Contemporary Issues in Communications Strategy Development," American Marketing Association national educators conference, San Francisco, August 1999

Respondent to the conference keynote speaker from the World Bank, at the annual Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Educators Academy's International, Interdisciplinary Research Conference, University of Maryland, June 1999

"Branding and Brand Equity," interview for the Bloomberg Forum (disseminated to 250,000 users of Bloomberg News' multimedia financial news service, and the Bloomberg radio network, which reaches 13 million daily listeners), Princeton, NJ, May 1999
 
Co-Chair of Fairleigh Dickinson University's annual business/academic symposium, 1999, and editor of the symposium proceedings, 1998

Member, Fairleigh Dickinson university-wide committees on marketing (1998-99) and capital-project needs assessment (1999), and member of the university Senate (1998-)

Member of the Department Personnel and Review Committee (DPRC), Fairleigh Dickinson University, Department of Marketing, Management & Information Systems (1998-9 and 2001-)

Member of Curriculum Committee (1999-) and Release Time & Summer Grant Committee (1999-2000), Fairleigh Dickinson University, College of Business

Member, editorial advisory board, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT, London (1996-)

Member, editorial advisory board, JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ADVOCACY COMMUNICATION
(1995-7)

Member, professional advisory board, BNFL graduate program in Corporate Communications Management, University of Salford, England (1996-)

Reviewer for:  JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT, 1996-present; World Marketing Congress in Perth, Australia, June 2003; American Marketing Association (AMA) educators conferences, summer and winter 1996 and 1997, winter 1998 and summer 1999; special issue of the JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 1996; Emory University Relationship Marketing Conference, 1996; American Academy of Advertising, 1995; Academy of International Business (Southwest division), 1993; Academy of Marketing Science, 1991 and 1990; Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, 1991 and 1990

Chair, special session on relationship marketing, American Marketing Association national educators conference, Chicago, August 1997

Panelist, "Doing the Right Thing: Public Relations Ethics," sponsored by the Minnesota Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), St. Paul, February 1997

"U Team" and "Dimension" interviews for WCCO-TV, CBS' Minneapolis/St. Paul affiliate, on the work of ad agencies and gender issues in advertising, February and April 1996

Moderator, panel discussion on crisis-communications management, Minnesota Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Minneapolis, November 1995

Discussant, research session on corporate, environmental and cause-related communications, American Marketing Association national educators conference, Washington, D.C., August 1995

Moderator, "Communicating in Two Languages and Two Cultures" (panel of Montreal advertising and public relations executives debating the merits of localized versus universal advertising and the difficulties of communicating to multilingual audiences), national conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Montreal, 1992     

Moderator/panelist, "The Integration of Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations: P's in a Pod or Just a Shell Game?" (panel of leading executives and scholars), national conference of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), Boston, August1991

Moderator, "Creativity in the Midwest" (panel of advertising and public relations executives from top Minneapolis creative agencies), national conference of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), Minneapolis, August 1990

Chair, research session, Academy of Marketing Science national conference, New Orleans, 1990

Panelist, "The Future of Public Relations," Minnesota Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), March 1989

Outside evaluator for marketing curriculum, College of Business, Northeastern State University (Oklahoma), December 1993

Publisher's reviewer for marketing text, Iowa State University Press, 1994

Judge, numerous local and national awards competitions, including the Public Relations Society of America's national Silver Anvil awards and the International Association of Business Communicators' international Gold Quill award