Blair Sheppard is dean of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and chair and founder of Duke Corporate Education. 

He has extensive experience working as a researcher, consultant, and teacher in the areas of leadership, corporate strategy, negotiation, organizational relationships, and organization design.  He has consulted to over a hundred companies and governments including ABB, BAE, the Canadian Government, Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ernst & Young, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, LaFarge, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Norfolk Southern, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, Toronto Dominion Bank, United States Postal Service, Verizon, and Wachovia. His research has been on the same topics with over fifty books and articles. 

Blair earned a BA and MA from the University of Western Ontario and his PhD in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.