Tina Huesing

Biography

Dr. Tina Huesing moved to Montclair from Munich, Germany, where she worked as assistant professor at the Munich campus of Wittenborg University Netherlands. She has also taught in New Zealand, India and PR China. Her courses have included international human resource management, business ethics, and corporate sustainability.

Dr. Huesing received her PhD from Benedictine University in Illinois. In her research she investigated the nature of global managers’ work, bringing Henry Mintzberg’s seminal study from 1973 into the 21st century. She also holds an MBA from Thunderbird in Arizona and spent a year in Texas at UT Austin on a Fulbright scholarship.

Dr. Huesing's research interest is focused on leadership as a work practice and the changing role of business as it relates to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She was selected as a 2023-25 CETL Fellow in the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships at Montclair. She works on strengthening the ties between the business school and the communities we are a part of.

Dr. Huesing also comes with industry experience. The last corporate job she held was as director of External Six Sigma Services for Europe, Middle East and Africa for a large multinational telecom company. She owns a networked consulting company that specializes in helping organizations grow their organizational maturity using the six sigma methodology. She is a certified Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma.

Research

Special interest in
- Global leadership
- Agenda 2030
- Leadership as work practice

Leadership for Sustainability

Together with a colleague at Wittenborg University, The Netherlands, we investigate the suitability of major leadership theories for business leadership that embraces sustainability goals like the 17 UN SDGs.

Business as a Source of Good

Community-engaged learning: understanding and addressing community needs as shared-value creation

Publications

• Book Chapter: T. Huesing (2022). Perpetual Guardian - Working Less and Being More Productive. McGrawHill
• Book Chapter: A. Johnson, T. Huesing, , J. Ludema, B. Hinds (2022). Global leadership is shared leadership: How smart global leaders build cultures of collaboration to drive results and get things done. Book: The Study and Practice of Global Leadership
• Book Chapter: T. Huesing (2023). Revisiting the Nature of Global Leaders Work. Advances in Global Leadership