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Gil Chavez
President and Founder, BC Consulting
Discipline:
Critical and Analytical Skills
Courses:
Critical Thinking
Quantitative Analysis for Business
Education:
MS in Mass Communications, University of Kansas
BA, Colorado College
Biography:
As a communications professional and educator for nearly 20 years, Mr. Chavez has worked with many of the top brands in the Asia Pacific region planning communications programs with executives to improve their performance in media interviews, press conferences and investor relations presentations.
Mr. Chavez has spent 14 years working in international business in Japan, as Senior Vice President of Hill & Knowlton and in corporate and marketing communications at IBM Asia Pacific.
Mr. Chavez has been a professor of public relations and advertising at California Polytechnic State University. He was also a competitive market analyst for the consulting division of Nortel Networks. Before coming to Japan, he worked in public relations and as a reporter and editor in the United States.
Faculty Message:
"The ability to assess a given situation, to quickly sift through data to indentify key factors, is essential in any profession. In business, it is the foundation of management and leadership. Without the ability to make sense of numbers and to understand what they mean, a manager is lost. But it isn’t enough to make sense of the numbers. A manager must also be able to explain these numbers to others and have them understand why and how he or she reached his or her conclusion. The analytical courses – critical thinking and quantitative analysis – help GLOBIS students do this. Lacking this ability, a person cannot lead. In order for people to believe in you, they must first believe you. Hence, critical thinking and quantitative analysis courses are the foundation of business leadership."
