Temple University
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Werther is Professor of Strategic Management at Temple University’s Fox School of Business and formerly Executive in Residence/Adjunct Professor at Thunderbird: The School of Global Management and Senior Research Fellow at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Proteus Futures Group. Dr. Werther’s doctorate is from Washington University in St. Louis (1990), with his dissertation being twice nominated best comparative work in the USA (1991/1992).
After two decades of senior executive education work with the world’s largest firms (on understanding complex future change within global markets and societies), Dr. Werther was 2007 winner of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Proteus Futures International Competition, beating world-class competition, and then in 2012 won the Society of Actuaries’ national competition on Extreme Event Recognition, Assessment and Management.
His socio-psychologically grounded approach to holistic assessment of global change and to understanding specific country styles of change was featured in 2008 at the ODNI’s Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence. The Proteus Futures Group (ODNI) Executive Director termed Dr. Werther’s work “unequaled” (2008) while in 2009 the Proteus Program Manager said: “I believe that he is the leading practitioner in holistically forecasting future trends.”