Jason Wingard


Jason Wingard is Dean and Professor of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. He is an academic and executive in the areas of leadership development, professional learning, and human capital management. As part of this work, he has authored several books.

Education

Wingard holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with honors from Stanford University, a Master of Arts in Education from Emory University, a Master of Education in Technology in Education from Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education, Culture, and Society from the University of Pennsylvania.
His master's thesis is titled, "Experienced Urban Teachers and Professional Development: A Study of Perceived Barriers to Change." His Doctoral Dissertation is entitled, "Corporate Education and New Information Technologies: Executive Perspectives of Implementation Barriers."

Career

Academic

Wingard served as Vice Dean of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he led the Aresty Institute of Executive Education—a leading provider of management education for global executives. Before that, he was Executive Director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute at Stanford University.
Wingard has taught at Stanford and Wharton, and teaches "Leadership Development" and "Organizational Strategy & Learning" at Columbia. Wingard has held executive education and leadership training with organizations including Columbia Athletics and LinKS@Wharton. In Columbia's fall semester of 2015, Wingard launched the Talks@Columbia thought-leadership series. In 2016, he led a new "Global Human Capital Trends" course that was developed in partnership with Deloitte. Wingard has pioneered several new access initiatives to offer Columbia's education to underserved populations, including the Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative and the Columbia HBCU Fellowship Initiative. He serves as a Director-at-Large on the University Professional and Continuing Education Association's Board of Directors.

Corporate

Wingard served as the Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for the strategy and implementation of learning solutions for the firm's global workforce. In this role, he oversaw the Pine Street Leadership Development Group, which provides strategic leadership development for the firm's top leaders. Since 2004, Wingard has served as President and CEO of The Education Board, Inc., a boutique management consulting firm specializing in organizational strategy, leadership development, and board effectiveness. He also served as Senior Vice President at ePals, Inc.— a provider of school-safe collaborative learning products—and in a variety of executive roles in cross-industry, global organizations, including The Vanguard Group and Silicon Graphics, Inc..

Non-profit

Wingard is a co-founder and Board Director of The Education Board Foundation, which provides financial assistance to disadvantaged populations, and those who support those populations, in the areas of the arts, education, advocacy, and public service.
He is co-founder and Board Chair of the Zoeza Institute, which provides mentoring support, advisory services, and transition programming for foster care youth in Atlanta, GA, New York, NY, and Philadelphia, PA. He is also Co-Founder of the Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative. He serves on the Board of Directors of Tides, a philanthropic partner and nonprofit accelerator dedicated to building a world of shared prosperity and social justice, as well as the Roundabout Theatre Company, a leading nonprofit theatre company in New York.
Wingard serves on the Membership Committee of CEO Connection, and as Affiliated Faculty at the Wharton Sports Business Initiative.
Wingard was a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute, where he led an initiative in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Federation of Teachers on new teacher induction strategies in urban school districts. He also previously served on the Boards for the National Center for Fathering, United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia, White Williams Scholars, and served on the Peer Review Council of the Organization Development Journal.

Athletics

Wingard is an accomplished athlete, having played varsity basketball, football, and track and field for West Chester Henderson High School, and varsity football and track and field for Stanford University.
Wingard was the 1990 high school Pennsylvania state champion in the 300m intermediate hurdles. His high school 4x400m relay team won the premier global event, "Championship of America," at the 1991 Penn Relays in a dramatic photo finish against Jamaica College of Kingston, Jamaica, that was broadcast on ESPN. Wingard was inducted into the West Chester Henderson High School Wall of Fame.
As a scholarship athlete for Stanford University's Cardinal football team, he competed in the 1991 Aloha Bowl vs. Georgia Tech, the 1992 Disneyland Pigskin Classic vs. Texas A&M, the 1992 Blockbuster Bowl vs. Penn State, and was a member of the 1992 Pac-10 Co-Champion team. He was also named Pac-10 Conference Academic All-American Honorable Mention in 1992. In track, he competed for Stanford in the 400m hurdles.

Research and publications

Wingard has published multiple books on professional education and leadership, including ', ', and Win the Leadership Game: How Companies Can Create Unbeatable Global Teams.
Learning to Succeed has received recognition including The Washington Post's Leadership Book of the Week in July 2015, Soundview Executive Book Summaries' 30 Best Business Books of 2015, and was chosen as getAbstract's September's Top 3 Reads in 2015.
He regularly contributes to Forbes and has also written for or been featured in articles by media outlets Fortune, Inc., Vanity Fair, TheStreet, and Knowledge@Wharton.

Keynotes and featured talks

Wingard has been a keynote speaker for corporations, conventions, board retreats, and academic summits. Some recent notable talks include:
's "Online Courses Cut Costs, But Do They Dilute Brands" offers Wingard's insights into universities' challenges in offering online courses. Library Journals "You're a Good Leader, But Are You a Thought Leader?" cites Wingard's definition of thought leadership. In the UK Financial Times piece "Winds of change blow for business schools," Wingard expands on the generational shifts in learning with technology. He has been interviewed by The Huffington Post on the changing incorporation of work/life balance, as well as contributed articles, including "Want Millennials to Stay? Invest in Corporate Learning", "Leadership: Committing to Closing the Workplace Gender Gap," "Building a Talent Pipeline for Girls in STEM", and "Looking Beyond the Trump & Clinton Foundations to New Trends in Philanthropy". Wingard penned an op-ed for Fortune, "What Uber is getting right that other startups aren't," which was cited by Vanity Fair in "Why Uber Won't Be Just a Taxi Company Forever." In "Delta Rolls Out Diversity Training Amid Reports of Passenger Discrimination," Wingard provided insights on corporate training and diversity initiatives for Bloomberg News. Business Insider interviewed Wingard on alternative university credentials. Wingard appeared on Brian Sullivan's Capital Exchange program on CNBC to discuss credentials and competencies needed in the workforce.
Wingard's access initiatives at Columbia University have been covered in the press, including "Columbia University partners with HBCUs to fight lack of business diversity" in The Undefeated, "Columbia and Brooks Brothers
Unite To Dress Future Female Changemakers" in Swaay, a "Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative" segment on Fox 5 NY, "Showing girls the way to careers in STEM" in The Miami Herald, and "Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative Inspires Young Women to Achieve in STEM Careers" in Black Enterprise.
Wingard also garnered national media attention as a student athlete when he played for Stanford's football team. Since then, he has attracted significant coverage from outlets including USA Today, Black Enterprise, and the NY Daily News for his consulting work with professional sports organizations and players. His engagements and activities have included research and analytics on trends and performance in collaboration with the Wharton Sports Business Initiative, as well as the design and delivery of advisory services and training programs related to preparing professional athletes for life after their playing careers—most notably the development of the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurship Program with colleague Kenneth Shropshire and former player and NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent for football players. As Dean of the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, he also oversees, and teaches students in, one of the world's top ranked Sports Management graduate degree programs and is often solicited for commentary and insights related to strategy, leadership, and best practices in the sports industry.
Wingard is featured in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton on "How Companies Should Manage Millennials." He also led an episode of the Knowledge@Wharton podcast alongside Wharton's Dr. John Percival on "The 'Forward-looking' CFO: Linking Financial Rigor with Leadership." The American Management Association interviewed Wingard for the AMANet Podcast, "Jason Wingard on Keeping Up with Business Education." In 2016, Bloomberg's signature business radio show, The Bloomberg Advantage with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson, featured Wingard as a guest to discuss "Preparing Students for Ever-Changing Work."