Teresa Rose

Teresa Rose

Associate Professor of Organizational Analysis

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Email: teresar@athabascau.ca

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Teresa is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Business at Athabasca University. She has taught, researched, and consulted in organizational change for over 20 years. Teresa has a multi-disciplinary approach bringing together degrees in psychology, sport, and business along with a passion for coaching (sport and executive business coaching). Her academic and practice backgrounds come together to understand the dynamics of change across multiple levels. She is particularly interested in collaboration as a mechanism of large-scale organization, system, or community change. Previous large-scale change projects focused on change in Global Business Advisory firms as well as the Canadian Civil Justice system; the Alberta Health Care system; and the Canadian Post-secondary Education system. Her recent publications have focused on Indigenous, Provincial and Federal cross-government collaboration highlighting necessary preconditions to collaboration as well as the importance of building collaborative capacity for public servants working with Indigenous peoples. Also, through a collaboration with Luminary of Indigenous Works Canada. Teresa has been part of an extensive environmental scan of reconciliation activities seen within Canadian business schools.

Since 2011, Teresa has worked in collaboration with Hull Services and with Indigenous Elders in Calgary, Alberta and area to design and evolve Braiding the Sweetgrass (BTS). BTS is a program to support Indigenous families on a path to wellness by stopping the cycle of inter-generational trauma. Teresa supported a process of Elders coming together to evolve the program evaluation strategy to be more aligned with Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing and has worked in collaboration with Hull Services and program funders on the Natoosi initiative, to evolve acceptable evaluation methods. Teresa is passionate about Indigenous, and arts based, qualitative research methods and program evaluation.

A recent extension of her cross-cultural collaborative work supports a collaboration among Not In My City, Elders of Treaty 7, and multiple police service organizations to interject on human trafficking on the First Nations of Treaty 7.

Teresa has had the honour of sharing experiences of working cross-culturally with many colleagues in Australia and New Zealand. She is very grateful for the cross-country learning and the positive impacts of the work of many toward long standing reconciliACTION among Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Teresa is a settler who grew up in the areas of Weyburn and White Bear First Nations, Saskatchewan, within traditional territory Treaty No. 4. For much of her life and presently, she resides in Mohk’insstsis, known as Calgary, Alberta within the traditional Blackfoot territory Treaty No. 7.

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Research interests

  • Strategy
  • Organizational Change
  • Organizational Theory
  • Indigenous Education

Educational credentials

  • PhD Organizational Analysis - Alberta Business School, University of Alberta
  • Master of Business Administration - Alberta Business School, University of Alberta
  • Master of Arts - Faculty of Sport Studies, University of Alberta
  • Bachelor of Arts - Honours Psychology, University of Regina
  • Certified Executive Coach - Royal Roads University

Professional affiliations

  • Administrative Sciences Academy of Canada
  • Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management