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Holly Duckworth

Contributing Faculty

College of Management and Technology

School of Management

Degree Program Executive M.B.A.

Holly Duckworth, Ph.D. retired as Chief Learning Officer for Kaiser Aluminum. She is a founding partner of Sherpa, Inc: A Benefit Company, a leading provider of training and education on sustainability and social responsibility performance improvement. Holly has advanced the Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility, or CISR (pronounced like “scissor”), space with her books: “Social Responsibility: Failure Mode Effects and Analysis”, and “A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability: Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility”. And she is co-author of the children’s book series: Parables for Prosperity.

Courses Taught

MRKT 6180 - Optimizing Marketing Performance

PMGT 3000 - Project Management

STAT 2002 - Management Statistics

Education

BS, University of Tennessee

MS, University of Southern California

PhD, Capella University

Publications

Duckworth, H. A. (2016). A Six Sigma Approach to Sustainability: Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility.

Duckworth, H. A., Jenkins, J., Voordeckers, J. (2009). My six sigma workbook.