Invited Speaking / Presentations

“Routes in Addis Ababa: Feasibility of Walking Tours in Africa’s Capital City.” 2019. 3rd Hospitality Finance & Economics Conference. Lausanne, Switzerland.

“An Effective Response: Smoldering Crisis and Capacity Cost Management.” 2019. Financial Executives International. Fort Worth, Texas.

“Performance Measurement and Reporting.” 2016-17. For Dr. Martin Taylor, University of Texas at Arlington. Optimizing Quality and Process with Accounting Information. Fort Worth, Texas.

“Relevance Revisited: Why more of what we do has to be practically relevant.” 2016. Conference on Teaching & Learning in Accounting, in conjunction with the American Accounting Association’s Annual Meeting, New York, New York.

“Financial Strategies in the Airline Industry: How accounting & financial professionals contribute to sustainable success.”  2014.  Switzerland Chapter, Institute of Management Accountants, Spring CPE Conference, Zug.

“IMA on Managerial Costing.”  2013.  Switzerland Chapter, Institute of Management Accountants, Swiss Business School, Zurich.

“Par-delà: Executive MBA in Hospitality Programme.” 2013. Academic Development Week 2013, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

“IMA’s Managerial Costing Initiative: An update.”  2013.  Switzerland Chapter, Institute of Management Accountants, Fall CPE Conference, Geneva.

“Luv Lessons Learned: Implementing ABC/ABM Slow, but Steady…While Driving Value Along the Way.” 2005. In Effective Controllership Skills–Activity Based Management,” with John Casey, Ron Fory, and Tom Pryor, Accountants CPE Network and Institute of Management Accountants, Dallas, Texas, United States.

“Adaptive Cargo Routing at Southwest Airlines.”  1999.  Embracing Complexity: Exploring the Application of Complex Adaptive Systems to Business conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Media Mentions

National Geographic, 2007

• “Swarm Theory” by Peter Miller

Fortune magazine, 2000 (Nov. 27)

• “Look Who’s Doing R&D” by Gene Bylinsky