Kwame Charles
Phone: (868) 628-2750
E-mail: kcharles@wow.net
Kwame Charles is a Practicum Advisor and teaches "Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management" on the Executive MBA Programme.
He is Director and Principal Consultant of Quality Consultants Ltd., a regional business research, management and information technology consulting firm based in Trinidad & Tobago. In addition to teaching on the business programmes of Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, he teaches at the Cave Hill Graduate School of Business in Barbados and has taught at the Wayne Huizenga School of Business, Nova Southeastern University , Florida .
Dr. Charles has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto ; a Master's degree in Social Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social/Organizational Psychology, both from Howard University . He has been involved in business and management practice, education, training, research and consulting for over 20 years. He has worked as a human resource manager and has taught both at the graduate and undergraduate levels at universities in the U.S. and the Caribbean . He has also conducted numerous workshops, seminars, and consulting assignments for public and private sector organizations regionally and internationally.
Dr. Charles' areas of expertise include business research, strategic management, leadership, human resource management, benchmarking and total quality management. He has co-edited two books and has published several articles on Caribbean business and management issues, human resource management, psychology and tourism in regional and international journals, magazines and newspapers.
He has served on several national and international boards and organizations including the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science & Technology , in Trinidad & Tobago the National Quality Council of Trinidad & Tobago , the Caribbean Centre for Excellence, based in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas-based Caribbean Centre for Quality and People Development , the Caribbean Hospitality Training Advisory Council, also based in Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Association of Consultants .
Dr. Charles has been listed in The Marquis Who's Who in the World since 1999 and the Dictionary of International Biography since 2000.