Executive Director, Tina Facca-Miess, Ph.D.
Professional Info
Executive Director of Inspired Foresight, Dr. Facca-Miess is also an Assistant Professor of Marketing at John Carroll University in the Boler School of Business. Dr. Facca-Miess' areas of research interest include applied statistics, marketing education, social innovation research, and social entrepreneurship. Her industry experience includes executive marketing positions with multinational franchised firms in varied industries including foodservice, hospitality and executive recruiting. Dr. Facca-Miess earned her Ph.D. in Economics at Göttingen University, Germany. She holds a Master of Science in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University as well as a Master of Applied Communication Theory and Methodology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Cleveland State University.
Dr. Facca-Miess serves as President-Elect of the Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education (CJBE), Chair of Jesuit Friends and Alumni Network (JFAN), and on the board of the Jesuit Retreat House (Parma, OH, USA).
Languages
SPSS
R/SPlus
SAS
Skills
Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors
Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis
Research for Strategic Planning
Event Production
WOM Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Experience
Assistant Professor of Marketing, John Carroll University
2008 - Present
Recently approved for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, September 2014, undergraduate courses taught include the capstone marketing course Strategic Value Co-creation, and Market Analysis, and graduate level Principles of Marketing for those working on masters in Non-profit Administration, Communications Management or MBA. Previous teaching experience includes Applied Engineering Statistics at Case Western Reserve University, Quantitative Methods (JCU), and Statistics for Business and Economics, Cleveland State University.
Teaching innovations include experiential service learning in the context of for-profit corporations, non-profits, entrepreneurship, or social enterprise using an Ignatian Pedagogy which features the nearly 500-year-old education process of understanding context, experience, reflection, analysis, and evaluation. Her areas of research interest include applied statistics, marketing education, marketing ethics, social innovation research, and social entrepreneurship.
Executive Marketing Positions
VP Marketing, Management Recruiters International (Franchised, $500MM)
Director of Marketing, TravelCenters of America ($200MM)
VP Marketing, Damon's International (Franchised, $300MM)
2010 - present
2010 - present
President, The Foresight Group
1987- Present
Dr. Facca-Miess established her marketing and research consultancy, The Foresight Group in 1987 and remains active in the business community taking on complex statistical analyses that facilitate her research and publishing agenda. She has authored “Classification and Analysis of Management and Marketing Data: Statistical Applications for Strategic Planning” and multiple academic journal publications. Her experience includes executive marketing positions with multinational franchised firms in varied industries including foodservice, hospitality and executive recruiting.
The idea for Inspired Foresight came from extensive discernment on how to offer highly professionalized services for those working toward the greater good.
Education
Georg-August Goettingen University, Germany
2010 - Ph.D. Economics
Dissertation: Classification and Analysis of Management and Marketing Data: Statistical Applications for Strategic Planning
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, USA
2008 - Master of Science, Statistics
Masters Thesis: Improved Density Estimation Using Stationarity: An Innovative Non-parametric Approach
Cleveland State University, Cleveland Ohio, USA
1994 - Master of Applied Communication Theory and Methodology
Master Thesis: Audience Research in Live Entertainment Settings: Predicting Potential for Profitability
Cleveland State University, Cleveland Ohio, USA
1987- Bachelor of Arts, Communication
Concentration: Promotional Communication