Charles is an accomplished senior Human Resources Executive with over 46 years of extensive, hands-on experience across diverse industries, including Manufacturing; Services; Consulting; Non-Profit; Academia. He joined the faculty at The Graduate School of Business in Fall 2015.

He is a highly skilled and charismatic trainer and teacher who is adept at integrating human resources with companies’ business and strategic plans, with a special focus on career success based on strong goal-setting and achievement orientation, sound judgment, maturity, proactive/self-directed demeanor, excellent managerial skills, and a high energy level.

Charles’s specific areas of expertise include:

• Human Resources/People-Systems Functions 
• Labor-Management Relations
• Compensation & Succession Planning Issues
• Performance Management Processes
• Employee Appraisals & Evaluations
• Training & Development Programs
• Teambuilding/Teamwork Processes/Functions
• Recruitment/Hiring Practices
• Organizational Development
• Leadership/Communications/Mentoring
• HR-Related Strategic Planning
• Employee Benefits Administration
• Business Strategies Development
• General Management/Operations
• Human Resources/People-Systems Functions                           

Charles possesses a Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from Liberty National University in Delaware, an M.A. degree in Psychology with a minor in Educational Administration from St. John’s University, in Jamaica, NY and a B.A. degree in Foreign Languages with a minor in Psychology from Fordham University - Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

In his spare time Charles is also an active semi-professional electric guitarist, composer, electronic musician, and luthier who designs and builds guitars! He has played in various bands and groups of one sort or another, and eventually became a published songwriter who received a significant amount of radio play with several of his original “free jazz”, “fusion” and “new age” compositions on radio stations throughout Florida, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.