Denis Leclerc teaches cross-cultural communication and global negotiations at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His interests and research have focused on intercultural communication competence and global negotiation. He teaches in multiple programs such as on-campus MBA, Executive MBA, customized programs such as Thunderbird International Consortia, and multiple oil and gas executive programs. He also serves as the academic director for multiple custom programs such as Raytheon, Novartis and Medtronic, and open-enrollment programs such as Communicating and Negotiating with a Global Mindset and Leading Teams for Strategic Results. Before joining Thunderbird, Leclerc taught at Arizona State University and served for eight years as director of multiple international studies abroad programs there. He directed and served on numerous master’s and doctoral degree committees in the U.S. and Europe. He was co-program evaluator for a National Science Foundation three-year grant examining the cultural adaptation of U.S. scientists working in scientific laboratories abroad. This research project was instrumental in guiding the foundation to redesign program components to include cross-cultural training for their international assignments.

Leclerc has been published in leading journals in his field including the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and has been a contributor to Readers in Communication, authoring a chapter on the impact of culture on global negotiations.

He is also an active and highly sought-after consultant. As the principal of his own consulting company, he has conducted cross-cultural research for companies in North America and France. Additionally, he has provided support for international program evaluations and has planned, facilitated, and analyzed professional-development seminars for a wide range of executive programs throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is a keynote speaker and seminar leader for various companies such as American Express, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and ExxonMobil on topics as varied as cultural misunderstanding, improving multi-cultural awareness, and cultural strategic negotiation preparation.

In 2008 and 2009, he was voted the most valuable professor by the Thunderbird Executive MBA students. In 2009, 2010, and 2011, he was voted most outstanding faculty member by the Thunderbird MBA students.

A native of Normandy, France, Leclerc completed a maitrise in cultural geography (honors) from L’Universite de Haute Normandie, Rouen, France, and then a master’s in international tourism at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in crosscultural communication from the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State University. He received his certifications for the Global Mindset Inventory from Thunderbird and the COM/COI from the Training Management Corporation.

Mary Sully de Luque is a tenured full Professor of Management and ASU Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. She has published scores of articles, book chapters and academic-conference proceedings in the areas of global leadership, corporate social responsibility, organization-level management issues and cross-cultural management.

Her research interests include the micro and macro influences of culture in organizations, responsible leadership, organizational effectiveness, CSR, stakeholder decision-making and training. Sully de Luque has served on the editorial boards of, and published research in, many of the top academic management journals. She teaches courses focusing on corporate social responsibility, cross-cultural organizational behavior and global leadership in MS, MBA, Executive MBA programs at Thunderbird and other prestigious universities globally.

Consulting with numerous corporations, she has quantified innumerable leadership and management behaviors that filter through organizations, yielding results that may represent a broad mix of the positive and the negative outcomes. She notes that proper assessment is critical to understanding real company issues.

Before joining Thunderbird, Sully de Luque was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned Wharton School, working on the very high-profile GLOBE project (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness). Based on ongoing GLOBE research, Sully de Luque coauthored the award-winning 2014 book “Strategic Leadership Across Cultures” that looks at CEO leadership in 24 countries. Throughout the book, the authors provide evidence that leadership matters, executive leadership matters greatly, and that societal cultures influence the type of leadership that is expected and effective, providing illustrative examples of findings.

Sully de Luque has kindled strong expertise in conducting research and creating business in developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Middle East. She is academic director of many Thunderbird entrepreneurship programs designed for women in developing and emerging economies. Sully de Luque has also served as faculty member for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Project in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Peru.

She earned her doctorate in organizational behavior and international management from the University of Nebraska’s College of Business Administration and her bachelor's degree in organizational communication from Creighton University. Prior to finishing her formal education, she worked as an aide for two United States Senators.

Christine ​Pearson is professor of global leadership at Thunderbird School of Global Management (a member of the Knowledge Network of Arizona State University). She has built a worldwide reputation as an expert on curtailing and containing dysfunctional behavior at work, from the dramatic sweep of organizational crises, to the corrosive impact of problems that escalate from low-intensity incivility and aggression in the workplace.

Pearson is highly sought after for her expertise by both academic and business sectors. She has helped numerous organizations plan for, avert and contain bad behavior – from devastating, business-threatening events, such as, workplace homicide, executive kidnapping, product tampering, aircraft accidents and consumer fraud - to the day-to-day erosion of workplace incivility.

As a consultant and executive-development adviser, Pearson has assisted organizations such as PepsiCo, Dow Chemical, NASA, Clorox, Transamerica, Cisco Systems, Kraft Foods, the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, BellSouth/AT&T, Mobil, Chevron, Nortel Asia, the Islamic Development Bank, SABIC, and the Red Cross.

She has been cited in more than 600 newspapers and magazines, and featured on international radio and television broadcasts including the major U.S. networks, BBC, CBC, NPR, CNN and additional networks around the world. Her work has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Conference Board Review.

Pearson has taught MBA, executive MBA, executive education, and doctoral courses in global leadership, crisis management, organizational change, personal leadership development, strategic management and human resource management at University North Carolina, Duke, University of Southern California and additional universities in Brazil, Canada, China and France. She has more than two decades experience teaching distanced academic programs globally. In light of her belief in lifting humanity through women micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries, Christine was academic director and co-designer of the SALTA program, which provided in-person education to 100,000 women micro-entrepreneurs in Peru. She has been a faculty member in Artemis and other programs, educating micro-entrepreneurial women from countries in the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, as well as the Pacific Islands.

Pearson has written six books on crisis leadership and bad behavior at work that have been translated into Chinese, Arabic and Spanish. Her book credits include the first grounded practitioner book on crisis management (with Mitroff), the first international scholarly book on crisis management (with Roux-Dufort and Clair) and the first grounded practitioner book on workplace incivility (with Porath). Her work has been published in numerous academic journals including, for example, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Organizational Dynamics, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Pearson earned her doctorate in business from the University of Southern California.