Fall 2026 Instructors

Rhonda Shrader - Executive Director and Professional Faculty Entrepreneurship & Innovation Entrepreneur, Educator, STEM commercialization expert

Rhonda Shrader is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program and the NSF I-Corps Northwest. She teaches three graduate-level Innovation & Entrepreneurship courses: Lean Transfer, Startup Disco and Introduction to Commercializing Quantum Information.

Susan Houlihan - Lecturer at Haas School of Business, Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, and Berkeley Executive Education

Susan is a continuing lecturer in Leadership, Communications & Coaching across the EWMBA, EMBA, MBA, and Undergraduate Programs at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She also teaches in the Masters and PhD programs at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, within the UC Berkeley School of Engineering. Additionally, Susan is an instructor for “High Impact Leadership” and “Advanced Executive Presence” for UC Berkeley Executive Education, and has taught in many of their custom programs.

Ingrid Gavshon, Professional Faculty, Haas School of Business and Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Ingrid Gavshon teaches Leadership Communications and Authentic Leadership at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. She also serves on the faculty of UC Berkeley Executive Education

Kirk Bansak - Yardi Scholarship Faculty Director and Professor

Kirk Bansak is the inaugural Faculty Director of the Yardi Scholarship and oversees the Yardi academic program, including the design of the Berkeley Changemaker cohort course and capstone course. He is an Assistant Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science, and also a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) and the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) at Stanford University and ETH Zurich.

Andrew Reddie - Associate Research Professor of Public Policy

Andrew Reddie is an Associate Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He works on projects related to cybersecurity, nuclear weapons policy, wargaming, and emerging military technologies. He is also the founder and faculty director for the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.

Ronald Dahl - Berkeley Changemaker Faculty Director

Professor Dahl is a pediatrician and developmental scientist with more than 30 years of experience working at the interface of research, practice, and policy with the goal of improving the lives of children and adolescents. He is a distinguished professor in the School of Public Health. He served as Director of the Institute of Human Development for 12 years, and was founding director of the Center for the Developing Adolescent.

Lee Fleming - Professor, R&D Tech Management, Technology Strategy

Professor Lee Fleming joined the IEOR Department at UC Berkeley in Fall 2011 and was the Faculty Director of the Coleman Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership. He teaches engineering leadership and a capstone lab within the Masters of Engineering curriculum. His research applies machine learning and NLP techniques on large datasets with causal inference models from management and social science.

Will Rosenzweig - Faculty Director, Sustainable Food Initiative at the Haas School of Business

Will Rosenzweig recently retired as managing partner of Physic Ventures, the first venture capital firm dedicated to investing in health, well-being and sustainable living. Over the past 30 years, he has been involved in leading and growing more than 30 entrepreneurial ventures.

Alex Budak - Lecturer, Management of Organizations

Alex Budak is a social entrepreneur and professional faculty member at Berkeley Haas. Budak created and teaches a transformative course called “Becoming a Changemaker,” and is Executive Director of the Berkeley Haas Global Access Program. He co-founded and now advises the social enterprise StartSomeGood.com, which has helped over 1,000 changemakers in 50 countries raise over $10 Million USD.

Chelsea Gregory - Lecturer, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies

Chelsea Gregory (she/her) is a community-engaged artist, educator, cultural organizer, equity and restorative justice practitioner with over two decades of experience working at the intersections of arts and social change. She has collaborated with Urban Bush Women, Cornerstone Theater Company, Guillermo Gomez-Peña/ La Pocha Nostra, Working Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many other dance and theater companies.