(July 20th – July 29th Session Only) Assistant Professor of the School of Management at University of San Francisco, Dr. Monika Hudson, to address students attending LeadAmerica’s Business and Entrepreneurship conference at Stanford University. Dr. Monika Hudson is an assistant professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) and teaches organizational behavior, entrepreneurship and public administration on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is concurrently directing USF’s Gellert Family Business Center, which promotes and supports family business in the Bay Area through a range of educational and networking opportunities and the Public Service Internship Program that enables business students to work with partners in community-based nonprofits and public sector agencies. Dr. Hudson’s research interests include identity, business and public administration, public policy analysis, economic development, entrepreneurship, and practices associated the strategic implementation of related projects. A trained mediator, she developed her expertise in small group facilitation and mediation, strategic planning, business/economic development, and community engagement over a 30-year career in local government. She assists government, nonprofit and private sector leaders in facilitation, team building, organizational analysis, and performance evaluation. Dr. Hudson served as city manager of both Colma and East Palo Alto, California. She was also an assistant city administrator of Millbrae, California and served in a range of executive management positions in the California cities of Oakland, Oxnard, Sacramento, and South San Francisco. Dr. Hudson has also performed site reviews of the public administration programs at California State University-East Bay and San Francisco State University as a member of NASPAA’s master of public administration program certification teams. Dr. Hudson received her undergraduate degrees in communications studies and political science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; completed her graduate work in public administration at California State University – Northridge; and received her masters of business administration from University of San Francisco. She is a Mandel Fellow and received her doctor of management from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.