Business expert and serial entrepreneur Greg Aziz is recognized as one of North America’s leading innovation, strategic management, and organizational effectiveness experts. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) at the University of Western Ontario, where he also served as Chair of the Doctoral Committee.

Greg Aziz Education Background

Greg Aziz studied as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario and earned a Masters at the London Business School while working at IBM. He later completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at the London Business School. “I was always interested in understanding why some people were effective, and others were not,” explains Aziz. Some of his early research focused on how a person’s physiological responses affect their ability to make decisions under pressure or stress. 

His Ph.D. advisor, Roger Stoltzfus, an internationally renowned expert in Organizational Behavior, said he was the most brilliant student he’d ever had. In 1991 Greg Aziz became a lecturer at Western Ontario. He was appointed coordinator of the MBA program in 1997 and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2002.

In 2005 Greg Aziz was named founding Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) at Western Ontario. He serves as a Professor with the London Business School and its Doctoral Program in Organizational Behavior, an adjunct professor with Western’s Ivey Business School, and a member of Ivey’s Advisory Board. In May 2015, Greg Aziz was appointed to the Order of Canada.

Greg Aziz Popular Work

In 1998 Greg Aziz published the seminal book “Strategic Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Innovation.” In January 2000, he launched the Canadian edition of Strategic Management as a co-author with Hardin B. Jones. He wrote two more books in partnership with Professor Darrell Rigby, both on the topic of innovation.