Bio

Professor David A. Owens serves on the faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Graduate School of Management in the area of organizational behavior.  Specializing in strategic innovation in business, Owens delivers executive education programs and consulting services to a wide range of clients in the U.S. and Europe.  His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Guardian and San Jose Mercury News, as well as on NPR’s Marketplace.

 Prior to teaching and consulting, Owens worked as a product designer and design engineer at IDEO, a global product-development firm based in Palo Alto, California.  He now teaches graduate courses in new product design and development, strategic innovation, and organizational design.  A dynamic teacher, Owens consistently receives top teaching awards and ratings from students in his courses, programs, and executive seminars.

 Owens holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in industrial engineering with an emphasis in organization studies, and an M.S. degree from Stanford in product design.  For his doctoral studies, Owens was awarded a four-year fellowship through a joint program of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering.

 Owens has served as a research fellow at the Imagination Lab Foundation in Lausanne, Switzerland, and actively serves on several advisory boards.  His education and consulting clients have included Kimberly Clark, TVA, NASA, Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, Daimler Benz, LEGO, Corning World Kitchen, Griffin Technology, Tetra Pak, Gibson Music, Orange, Alcatel, and the Vanderbilt Technology Corporation, among others.

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