Timothy Stearns

Timothy M. Stearns is the holder of the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial
Studies and Executive Director of the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
at California State University, Fresno www.lylescenter.com. Professor Stearns received
his MBA degree in management and a doctorate in management/sociology from Indiana
University. He previously was a member of the Management faculty at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison and Marquette University. He has served on the editorial board of
the Academy of Management Journal, and currently services on the editorial boards of
the Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Small Business Management.
Professor Stearns has co-authored a textbook on management and is the author of
more than 75 research articles and presentations. He has taught and lectured on
entrepreneurship and innovation to students and executives in Thailand, Poland, Japan,
Kazakhstan, Macau, Germany, and the Peoples Republic of China. He is a co-founder of
the National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
www.n2tec.org, a nonprofit located in Rapid City, South Dakota. He currently serves as
past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management
www.aomonline.org having served as Chair in 2006 and 2008. In addition, he is
President of the Central Valley Business Incubator, a not for profit facility www.cvbi.org.
Professor Stearns is also co-founder of Kids Invent! www.kidsinvent.com a company
that sells creative hands on learning around the world. In 2007, Professor Stearns won
the prestigious Wang Family Excellence Award given each year to 4 faculty members
selected from the 23 campus wide California State System. He is a member of the
Regional Jobs Initiative Executive Committee www.fresnorji.org and the Fresno Mayor’s
Creative Economy Council www.fresnocec.org. You can listen to him on radio on the
Pulse weekly on Saturday at noon and again on Sunday at 9am on KFSR 90.7
www.kfsr.org.