Francisco J. Valle, Ph.D.

Professor Francisco Valle earned a Ph.D. in Management and an Executive Certificate in Strategy from Claremont Graduate University's The Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. He holds an MBA from California State University, Fullerton, and a B.S. in Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Biology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Professor Valle completed Corporate Governance Training at both Harvard Business School, and UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Professor Valle teaches Strategic Management and Business Globalization at LMU. Prior to LMU, he conducted classes on Global Marketing and Strategy at UCLA, and Marketing and the Organizational Mindset, Consumer Behavior, Integrated Advertising, and Integrated Marketing Communications at Champlain College. In addition, Professor Valle has conducted professional seminars and webinars for executives related to the Hispanic, multicultural and general markets since 1986 in both English and Spanish.

As a consultant, Professor Valle combines his business strategy, management, and marketing expertise to identify and determine innovative opportunities of complementary assets for value creation and increased market share. He helps organizations develop a sustainable competitive advantage, and to execute innovative Integrated Strategic and Marketing Communication Plans.

Some recognitions of Professor Valle’s unique expertise include: (a) Receiving Merrill Lynch’s prestigious Global Leadership in Diversity Award; (b) Selected as a member of BP Oil’s Worldwide Center of Expertise Committee in Logistics and Distribution; (c) Conducting with the Institute of the Americas a “Selling Consumer Goods to Hispanics” conference for domestic and Latin American Executives, (d) Recipient of Four Advertising Palm Awards; and (e) Selection by Forbes Magazine of the book he coauthored How To Win The Hispanic Gold Rush™ to its book club.

Dr. Valle is biliterate and bilingual (English-Spanish) and a TED Circles Host.