Ayman El Tarabishy, Ed.D.

Bio

Ayman El Tarabishy holds M.B.A. and doctoral degrees from the George Washington University.  He is currently a visiting assistant professor at the George Washington University's School of Business, where he teaches in the full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs and leads the primary entrepreneurship and case study methods course for GW Healthcare MBA program.  He is also the Executive Director of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), a coalition of more than a dozen national organizations across the globe devoted to advancing small business research and practices.

Dr. El Tarabishy has worked at the World Bank in the Corporate Strategy Group. He helped develop and manage their technology strategy for the Development Marketplace Program. The program’s mission was to identify and support creative cutting-edge solutions to the most pressing world social and economic concerns. To date, the Global Development Marketplace competition has disbursed over US $30 million in awards to 171 winning proposals. 

Ayman’s current research is in entrepreneurial leadership. His recent work explores and attempts to more clearly define the relationship between an organization's entrepreneurial strategy and the CEOs’ leadership characteristics and actions.  He has presented his work at national and international conferences and has published research articles in the Journal of Private Equity, the Southern Business Review, and the International Journal of EntrepreneurshipEducation. 
 
Dr. El Tarabishy consults and conducts executive training for several national and international organizations, including the National Federation of Small Business and the International Monetary Fund.

Professional Associations

• Academy of Management
• Member, Organizational Behavior Division
• Member, Organization Development and Change Division
• Member, Entrepreneurship Division
• International Leadership Association

Professional Specialties

• Designing and conducting organizational research focused on leadership and entrepreneurship
• Design and implementation of leadership development programs
• Designing and facilitatings executive team development sessions
• Assisting executives and managers in the design and implementation of major cultural change efforts in organizations

Clients

Among Dr. El Tarabishy’s clients have been the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the National Federation of Small Business (NFIB), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the United States Association for Small Business (USASBE).