Dr. Abraham has over 35 years of experience in consulting, research, and teaching and is an expert strategist. He is an effective strategic coach, an experienced change agent, and knows how to get management teams to perform at superior levels. He has advised on well over 600 strategic and business plans for established companies and new ventures in both the manufacturing and service sectors. He currently focuses on helping companies grow, become more profitable, and increase in value.

Dr. Abraham was raised and educated in England, where he got a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the University of London before emigrating to Canada. After serving as a project engineer with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited for several years in the mid-sixties (where he was co-recipient of two patents), he received a master’s degree in management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He then joined General Research Corporation as a member of its technical staff, where he worked on a variety of research and consulting projects until studying for his doctorate at UCLA’s Graduate School of Management (now the Anderson School). During his doctoral program, he continued to consult extensively and was invited to participate in studies for the National Commission on Productivity and the National Science Foundation. Upon graduating, he joined the RAND Corporation as a senior policy analyst where he made significant contributions to several major public-policy projects in criminal justice, housing, energy, and water management over a five-year period.

For most of the eighties, Dr. Abraham was on the strategy faculty at Pepperdine University’s School of Business and Management where he also served as Chair of the Department of Management. He was a principal architect of the school’s very successful Executive MBA program, structured along the lines of a strategic-management model. Since 1991, he has taught at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) and, since 1995, as professor of management and entrepreneurship. He co-founded the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in 1995, serving as its director from 1996-99. His second book, Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success, with CD-ROM, Thomson South-Western, 2006 has already been published. Dr. Abraham founded Future By Design in 1983, whose assignments give him the opportunity to practice what he preaches and to inform his teaching. Dr. Abraham’s first book, The Public Accounting Profession: Problems and Prospects, Lexington Books, 1978, is an incisive analysis of that profession’s strategic problems at a time when it came under SEC and national scrutiny (based on his Ph.D. dissertation). He has also authored numerous published articles and refereed research reports.

In 1999, he co-founded the Association for Strategic Planning, serving on its board of directors since its inception. He organized the Association’s first annual conference, New Strategies for a Rapidly Changing World, on October 9, 2001, and served as its President in 2003-04. In January 2002, Dr. Abraham was invited to become a Contributing Editor for the prestigious journal Strategy and Leadership, and has written articles in several issues.

Dr. Abraham is a sought-after speaker and workshop and seminar leader on a variety of management topics, particularly strategic thinking and planning, leadership, and change, and is available to speak at your next conference or professional-association meeting, or to your managers.