Teresa Nelson
After more than a decade as a tenured, then chaired and full rank professor in Boston area business schools, Teresa Nelson launched Versity North Group to bring the best of management science to practice. The company partners with businesses and nonprofits to stabilize operations, drive high-impact change, and grow with focus. Recent clients have included the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cullinan Therapeutics, the Peabody Essex Museum, and Trillium Asset Management.
As a consultant, Teresa serves as an executive-level advisor, strategic design and implementation specialist, and data collection design and analysis lead. Her foundational expertise lies in strategic management, the discipline in which she earned her Ph.D. and which she defines as the conceptualization of an organization and its performance in relation to competitive dynamics, people engagement, economic and sociological context, the firm’s own values, and community. Her years of experience allow her to focus on the structures and practices to realize company-level stability and growth while also designing internal management efforts in alignment. Building leadership talent and fostering an inclusive realized business ethos are core competence areas. (Please refer to the Versity North Group website for further details.)
In her academic career, Teresa lectured on five continents, with a particular focus on the economic regions of China and the European Union. Notable appointments include membership on the Boston Biotech Working Group under the stewardship of former MIT President Susan Hockfield; acting as the Senior Director of Research and Policy for Astia, a startup investment fund; and serving as a global scholar for the University of Quebec, Montreal. During the Obama Administration, she was appointed to the 13-member National Women’s Business Council, advising the White House and Congress on matters pertaining to women entrepreneurs and their enterprises.
