Graziadio Faculty Administration & Faculty Affairs Staff

About

Graziadio’s academic leaders and Faculty Affairs team work together to support faculty, academic programs, and student success. Through collaboration and administrative support, we advance teaching, research, service, and professional development across the school.

Vision	Mission	Values
We seek to inspire a vibrant, supportive, and innovative environment that empowers faculty in preparing students to become purpose-driven leaders in the global business world.	To enhance our faculty’s teaching, research, service, community building, and professional development by leveraging technology and human resources, streamlining processes, and fostering departmental collaboration, which leads to cultivating academic excellence.	Rooted in Pepperdine’s core values of purpose, service, and leadership, we will foster a community of shared responsibility, clear communication, collaboration, fairness, and continuous learning to sustain a meaningful impact on the lives of our faculty and students.

Vice Dean, Academic and Student Affairs

Michael Williams

Michael Williams, PhD

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Michael Williams has served Pepperdine University in a variety of leadership roles since joining the faculty in 2004. He is an experienced leader in graduate management education with competencies in program development, stakeholder engagement, and process improvement. As a scholar, he is interested in how technology shapes organizations, individuals, and society. He has published in leading empirical and practitioner outlets, including the European Journal of Operations Research, MIS Quarterly Executive, and books published by Oxford University Press. Michael is an award-winning teacher, including the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence, Pepperdine’s highest teaching award. Additionally, he has served as a visiting scholar and teacher at business schools around the world, including University College Dublin (IE), Mannheim University Business School (DE), and Innsbruck Management Centre (AT).

Department Chairs

Jillian Alderman, PhD, CPA, CFE	Jennifer Franczak, PhD	Brian McGilvray, JD
ACCT, FIN, Real Estate, DESC	ABS, OTMT, STGY, ENTR	ECNM, LEGL, MKTG, ISTM
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Jillian Alderman is an Associate Professor of Accounting and a licensed CPA (Florida) and Certified Fraud Examiner. Prior to academia, she worked as an auditor at Deloitte. Her interdisciplinary research examines how individual beliefs, traits, and backgrounds influence organizations and society. A recipient of Pepperdine’s Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence, she teaches accounting and decision-making courses across multiple programs.	Dr. Jennifer Franczak is a Professor of Organization Theory and Management at Pepperdine University, specializing in organizational design, institutional theory, and workplace equity. Her research examines how organizations evolve within complex environments and develop adaptive, ethical, and inclusive workplaces. Her scholarship has appeared in leading academic and practitioner publications, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Journal of Business Ethics.	Brian McGilvray serves as Chair of the Master of Science in Business Program at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, where he teaches leadership and ethics, business law, employment law, and human resources management. He previously taught at California State University, Northridge, and has guest lectured on ethics and family business at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management.

Academic Leads

Lisa Herzog	Erik Krogh
Student Community Standard	Full-Time Programs
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Lisa will be dedicated to promoting a culture of academic integrity, managing student conduct processes, and fostering a positive, respectful, and equitable learning environment across the school.	Erik will work closely with Full-time Program Chairs to coordinate the strategic direction, academic quality, and curriculum alignment of our full-time degree offerings, ensuring a cohesive and enriching experience for students and robust support for the faculty teaching in these immersive programs.

Lynda Palmer	Brandon Parsons
E2B	Part-Time Programs
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Lynda Palmer serves as Director of the acclaimed Pepperdine’s E2B™ (Education to Business) program, which connects graduate students with organizations to address real-world business challenges. Her current research focuses on industry collaborative learning and the role of university-industry partnerships in enhancing graduate business education.	Brandon will work closely with Part-time Program Chairs to coordinate the strategic direction, academic quality, and curriculum alignment of our part-time degree offerings, ensuring a cohesive and enriching experience for students and robust support for the faculty teaching in these programs tailored specifically to the unique needs of our fully employed, online, and part-time student populations.

Graziadio Faculty Affairs

Dr. Kristin Bailey	Janna Martinez	Kaelani Medina
Senior Director of Faculty Affairs	Senior Faculty Support Specialist	Senior Faculty Support Specialist
Email Kristin Bailey	Email Janna Martinez	Email Kaelani Medina
Leads the Graziadio Faculty Affairs team, overseeing faculty support and coordinating administrative services with department chairs and staff.	Provides admin support to department chairs, tracks FT faculty units, processes overload (banked & stipend), assists with RTP, assists with faculty annual evaluations, support for behavior workshops and simulations.	Administrative support to department chairs, master year-long scheduling, oversees Faculty 180 in Interfolio,supports adjunct faculty processes, prepares reports, and manages department data.

Jaime Quillen	Yibao Liang
Faculty Affairs Project Manager	PGBS Faculty Research & Graduate Assistant
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Course Evaluations, Faculty Affairs website updates, RA program in collaboration with Student Employment, assist with desk copy book orders, faculty committee elections, faculty awards (JV, Denney), faculty business cards.	PhD student at Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP), supporting Faculty Affairs website updates and faculty resources and assisting Professor Cole with research and academic projects.