Ben Baran

Ben is probably one of the few people in the world who is equally comfortable in a university classroom, a corporate boardroom and in full body armor carrying a U.S. government-issued M4 assault rifle.

An assistant professor of management at Cleveland State University, Ben researches and teaches human resource management and organizational behavior. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, and he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Business and Psychology. He is also a partner at the management consultancy Agility Consulting and Training, and his consulting clients span a wide range of industries and sectors. Since 2002, Ben has served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and is currently a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, and from December 2012 to December 2013, he served on active duty as an adviser to the Afghan National Police as part of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan.

Ben holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and communication from Villanova University and earned his master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology and Ph.D. in organizational science from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.