Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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Past Dean, David D. Reh School of Business, Clarkson University and Elmer Gates Endowed Professorship for Innovation Culture

Fulbright Scholar, Hong Kong

Senior Scholar External Evaluator and Academic Advisor for GE Assessment, Center for General Education at Hong Kong Baptist University

Past Chair, AACSB's Women in Management Administration (WAME)

Past President, Northeast Business Deans Association (NEBDA)

Founding Co-Chair, Young Women’s Leadership Institute (YWLI), St. Lawrence County, New York

Board Member, International Advisory and Organizing Committee, International Conference and Initiatives on Service Learning, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

International Editorial Review Board, Journal of Service Learning and Service Science

Director/Board Member, ViviendasLeón, a NGO in León, Nicaragua

Globally Responsible Leadership Institute (GRLI)

Publisher - Lexingford Publishing LLC

Founding Dean, WiBE (Women in Business Education)

  “What kind of leader am I?  What kind of leader will I become?”           Developing Leadership Abilities, Second Edition  was written to help college students get on the fast track to becoming a leader.  Providing dozens of practical examples, the book moves quickly while giving an organized, readable, and logical analysis of leadership.   The book offers the following pedagogical tools to help students reach their own leadership potential: v       Insights Boxes –throughout the chapters ensure that key points stand out. v       Your Turn features –give frequent opportunities to record personal experiences, insights, impressions, and questions. v       Meet a Leader--  Introduces the reader successful leaders college and career environments. v       Personal Leadership Plan --Helps students hone their skills in the leadership realm. v       Assess Your Approach to Leadership  –This brief exercise gives students an opportunity for self-reflection and a mirror on how their own background will affect their leadership qualities. v       Summary –Located at the end of each chapter, reinforces the key points.   The book is brief enough to keep student interest and is based on solid empirical data.  The book’s conversational and interactive format answers the q uestions:  what makes a leader, what do leaders do, and how do leaders overcome problems?

Developing Leadership Abilities (2nd Edition)

Finally business professionals will be able to learn how to communicate effectively. This book builds the essential writing, speaking, and listening skills needed to succeed. An entire section is devoted to helping non-native speakers of English in their efforts to produce readable, well-edited work. It includes Communication Dilemmas boxes that pose interesting, real-life communication choices and challenges. Six brief interviews with real communication experts are presented that explore a variety of different corporate environments. New sections are also included on social networking communications and the electronic career search. Business professionals will discover how to apply newly acquired communication skills throughout their careers.

Management Communication

The authors point out twelve difficult personality types that can be found in business environments, then offer tips to help readers understand what makes them tick and how the rest of us can best cope with them. Advice includes methods for transforming potential problems into "getting-ahead" advantages.

Winning with Difficult People (Barron's Business Success Series)

  Broad, practical coverage of team skills offered in a conversational tone that encourages reader participation.      Teams offer us many advantages as an organized way to accomplish tasks — but what are the best methods and practices for harnessing the full power of a team successfully? In its second edition, Learning Team Skills offers insight into how both those in a college and corporate environment can use teambuilding skills as well as their individual strengths to create, participate in, and lead successful working teams. With a concise format and relaxed tone, this text teaches readers about the overwhelming advantages of teamwork over individual striving as well as how teams can foster meaningful interpersonal relationships, aide in conflict resolution, and, in due course, lead to goal achievement.   The newly-revised second edition of this practical and interactive text retains its many reader participation features and true-to-life anecdotes while adding major new sections on best practices for virtual teams; ways to diagnose team problems; measurement instruments for evaluating the motivation of team members; cultural considerations when building a strong team; effective inclusion of team members born after 1985, and more than a dozen online resources for forming and managing excellent teams.  

Learning Team Skills (2nd Edition)

The author presents ways to develop the quality of leadership in business and enhance personal career prospects.

Motivating People (Barron's Business Success Series)

   Focusing on equality in the workplace, this informative and empowering study offers a candid examination of women and the barriers they face as they enter the 21st century workforce environment, highlighting the challenges organizations and their employees face as well as offer new directions women can look to in managing their success.   Offers valuable insight and expertise from a wide range of contributing authors, providing readers with a foundation for exploring the “glass ceiling” , analyzing women's experiences in the workplace, and identifying strategies for managing successful career. Addresses many pertinent issues, including gender and communication; the experience of women of color; dysempowerment in organizations; the legal system and discrimination laws; career path obstacles; the trend of international women managers; what women entrepreneurs must know; professional women as changing agents, and much more. Begins each section with interviews from some of today's most powerful and inspiring women leaders who share how they “broke through” and found success.   For professionals in management and business. 

Women at Work

 This “full service” guide to networking provides explanation and training in the communication and intercultural tools necessary to build a domestic and international web of professional contacts. KEY TOPICS It contains practical techniques and strategies for network relations, and in-depth discussions on gender communication, intercultural communication, nonverbal aspects of networking, and special challenges for women in business.  For professionals, jobseekers, and managers in training. 

Building Your Network Through Communication (NetEffect Series)

   Written in an interest-grabbing, person-to-person style, this brief, unique step-by-step guide/workbook explores both the classic and most recent theories and applications of human motivation, showing readers how to come to terms with personal motivators and use them for higher levels of achievement. Hands-on in approach, it combines assessment activities, narrative, and frequent opportunities for readers to enter their own thoughts, reactions, and experiences—resulting in an insightful intellectual diary on the nature of one's own personal motivation profile.   Motivation: What It Is—and Isn't. Dealing with the Classic Demotivators. Assessing Your Primary Motivators. Motivation from the Inside. Motivation from the Outside. Motivation by Reward. Motivation by What You Expect. Motivation by What's Fair. Overcoming Demotivators and Mapping Your Motivational Goals.   For anyone interested in how to come to terms with personal motivators and use them for higher levels of achievement. 

Motivating Yourself for Achievement (NetEffect Series)

  This unique book gives the latest information on how to succeed in the interview process, whether as an interviewee or an interviewer. Both verbal and nonverbal skills crucial to interview success are discussed in detail in this informative and clearly written book, and many sample questions from typical interviews are provided.   This book covers all topics relating to the interview process, including techniques for interviewing and the different types of interviews used by governments, business, and other organizations, with special emphasis on the selection and hiring interviews.   For job placement specialists, career counselors, personnel directors, human resource department employees, executives, managers, or any person wishing to brush up on their interview skills. 

Interviewing for Success (NetEffect Series)

Motivating other people (and ourselves) is the heart of leadership in any organization. This book cuts to the chase of ten proven techniques for converting chuggers into chargers in your company.

Why Should I?: Ten Keys to Motivating People

Assembling a group is easy. Developing a team is a challenge--perhaps the challenge for organizations hoping to succeed in the 21st century. Here, management experts Eric Skopec, PhD, and Dayle M. Smith, PhD, show you how to: Develop and organize a well-balanced, productive team Lead and motivate your team Reward team successes and deal constructively with mistakes Troubleshoot obstacles to successful team-building Skopec and Smith have used these team building techniques in their consulting practices with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. Now you can apply their easy-to-use approaches to bring the strength of teams to your company--or to dramatically improve the performance of teams already in place. What the Experts Are Saying . . . "We've seen these team building techniques in action. They have transformed the way we work together and have been a key factor in helping us achieve our corporate mission. Read this excellent book!" -- Roberta Napelson, President, Companion Insurance Management, Inc. "Getting people to work together as a team is the most important challenge for any corporate leader. Skopec and Smith present the tools and techniques teams need to succeed. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to team members, team leaders, and managers responsible for teams." -- Mike Moody, Global Services Vice President, AT&T "Without teamwork my company would be an also-ran. The approaches to team building taught here really work. I recommend them for starting effective teams and for rejuvenating existing teams." -- Mike Estrada, Training and Development Manager, Lucky Stores

The Practical Executive and Team-Building (Practical Executive Series)

Management Communication:2nd (Second) edition

A discussion of the latest leadership thinking, illustrated by real world examples of corporate and institutional management, offering practical tools and techniques that can be used to discover leadership potential, create a leadership style to fit the purpose, and develop the special leadership skills needed to build successful teams.

The Practical Executive and Leadership

Creating well-balanced and constructive teams is important to the success of any organisation. This book provides comprehensive information concerning building, organising and maintaining strong company teams.'

How to Use Team Building to Foster Innovation Throughout Your Organization

Smith (management, Georgetown U.) addresses child and elder care as a business survival issue for working parents and their employers, and examines exemplary kin care plans and programs of some 100 companies throughout the US. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Kin Care and the American Corporation: Solving the Work/Family Dilemma

Join the e-business revolution and do it right with the help of "The E-Business Book." Written in a fast-paced style, this title by a professor of management guides readers through a 12-step process that leads to e-commerce success.

The E-Business Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to E-Commerce and Beyond

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Dayle Smith is dean of the College of Business Administration at LMU where she leads strategy, operations and fundraising for executive, graduate and undergraduate programs. Her vision and strategic plan for the college prioritizes three key goals: embracing business as a force for good; ensuring an entrepreneurial and agile perspective; and building a global, transdisciplinary and inclusive mindset. Dayle led CBA’s efforts to become a signatory to the United Nations PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) initiative as well as the implementation of the university strategic spotlight initiative related to interdisciplinary collaboration. 

Dayle currently serves as president elect for the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS) and is on the Board of Trustees for the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI). She also serves on the Innovation Committee for the Association to Advance Colleges and Schools of Business (AACSB), participating in strategic dialogue around DEI, technology and the impact of business education on society. Dayle is a founding member of Women in Business Education (WiBE) and former chair of the AACSB’s Women in Management Education (WAME) affinity group. She was named to the LA 500 “Most Influential People in Los Angeles” in 2020, 2021 and 2022 (LA Business Journal). 

Prior to joining LMU in 2018, Dayle served as dean of the David D. Reh School of Business at Clarkson University where she held the Elmer D. Gates Endowed Professor of Innovative Business Culture. Before Clarkson, Dayle served on the faculty at Georgetown University and University of San Francisco. 

Dayle has taught internationally throughout Southeast Asia and Europe, working with executives, MBAs and undergraduates across a variety of programs. At LMU, Dayle has grown the portfolio of graduate business programs from three to nine including the M.S. in Business Analytics, M.S. in Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Innovation, and joint, interdisciplinary degrees with other colleges on campus.

As author of over 25 books and numerous articles, Dayle’s research has focused primarily on leadership, communication and organizational behavior. She is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship and the emerging role of B-Corps on a global scale.

Leadership and Team Development

Organizational Behavior

Design Thinking and Innovation Culture

Executive Coaching

Organizational Communication

“Lessons Learned,” Invited Panelist

“In Business With Canada: Views from Northeast Business Deans”

“Social Entrepreneurs, the B-Corp and Design Thinking: Models for a New Generation,” Invited presentation

“Partnerships in Service Learning,” Panelist, Discussant and Plenary Chair

“Building an Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at Clarkson” (Note: Clarkson named the first place winner for National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program award )

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