Dominie Garcia, PhD

Board Member

Dominie Garcia is currently an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University in the Organization and Management department of the College of Business. Her areas of expertise are organizational change and transformation, organizational structure and design, and organizational culture. Her research topics are focused on how organizations can better manage large scale, disruptive change processes, ensuring successful outcomes and smoother transformations. Dominie earned an MBA, Magna cum Laude, from Babson College. After Babson, she worked for the Vice Chairman of AOL Time Warner during the merger of the two companies, and was co-founder of an organization, Emerging Venture Network, which serves to connect high potential early stage companies, led by minority entrepreneurs, with private equity funding sources, such as venture capital.

Dominie’s work with several non-profit organizations to help streamline and focus their organizational structure and strategy in order to more effectively execute on their cause-based missions, has likewise been an integral part of her work. It is critical for non-profit organizations to attend to structure and management elements in order to better serve their constituents and manage multiple stakeholders, a process that often involves major change within the organization.  Dominie helps organizations find their best designs and manage the related change process.

Dominie holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Vassar College, an MBA from Babson College and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech.