Academic Lecturing

Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business is consistently ranked among the world’s ten best business schools.

At Tuck, Christine Spadafor lectures in the school’s Visiting Executive Program — where she imparts “real world” business lessons drawn from her extensive career as a CEO, management consultant, and attorney.

A Wealth of Experience

“Christine Spadafor brings a wealth of experience to the Tuck classroom – CEO, senior consultant, board member, and leader. Students and faculty alike have greatly enjoyed Christine’s regular trips to Tuck as a Visiting Executive, where she brings her personal experiences to the classroom in a way that students find energizing and informative.”

~ Paul Danos, Former Dean
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Engaging, Dynamic, and Caring

“I interacted extensively with Christine Spadafor during her lectures and conversations at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. As a Visiting Executive Fellow I had the opportunity to meet with dozens of impressive executives across industry and functional expertise areas. Christine was easily the most engaging, dynamic and caring of them all.”

~ Jennnifer Tietz, MBA Graduate
Dartmouth Tuck School of Business

Positive, Lasting Impressions

“Christine has built a reputation in both the corporate and non-profit worlds as a innovator, entrepreneur, and humanitarian…Christine cares about organization and the people who make them successful, and she shares in meaningful ways that leave positive, lasting impressions.”

~ Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, PhD
President, La Roche University

Source: Strategic Leadership class on board governance at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, April 2021

Professor Sydney Finkelstein asks the students at the end of a course to “share the one insight that is most likely to stick with you.”

“One theme that came up multiple times was the importance of understanding internal relationships and politics as a leader. In the class about merging two boards with different cultures, Christine talked about how she observed and mitigated tensions [among board members] to bring people together by bridging divides. I want to keep this in mind for the future.”

“I appreciated Christine Spadafor’s thoughtful feedback on board integration ideas and the clarity with which she reflected on the process.”

“Christine Spadafor explaining the take-aways of the board of directors’ case study called my attention to ‘look beyond the words,’ that becoming an ‘active learner’ is going beyond what is said or written.”

“In our class with Christine Spadafor, I realized that successful development of a corporate strategy involves cultivating good relationships with the board and executives, and that strategic development is a two-way street… Establishing a common culture that complements a strategy (or vice versa) will improve the strategy’s chance of success, as I learned from Christine.”