Organization Consulting & Executive Management
Providing academic institutions and organizations executive level leadership consulting, accreditation guidance, and conference management services.
Organizational Consulting & Management Expertise
Whether an academic institution, a for-profit firm, or a non-profit organization, allow us to help you through your leadership challenges, provide guidance through the AACSB accreditation process, modernize your organization's technology, conference operations, membership engagement, and more. Since 2010, UpScholar has worked with academic institutions and organizations around the globe, providing expertise to advance beyond the challenges being confronted.
Brandon Taylor Charpied
Owner | Executive Consultant & Conference Management
Brandon is the Executive Director of the Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, the Executive Director of the International Association for Conflict Management, and conference manager of the Eastern Academy of Management International. He earned his MBA from Coastal Carolina University and is nearing completion of his DBA in Organizational Behavior from Jacksonville University. Brandon's research interests reside in implicit leadership theory, artificial intelligence, and media richness theory.
Brandon has invested his entire professional career working in the not-for-profit sector, working exclusively with academic not-for-profits for the last 14 years. Through a background in leadership, marketing, management, and technology, Brandon's goal is to allow an organization's 'working board' to evolve into the 'visionary board' it is meant to be, leaving the execution of those visions to Brandon. A not-for-profit should not be fretting about today, but rather actively looking toward the horizon for what five years from today may bring forth. It's time your organization be set on a path of proactiveness rather than reactiveness. As a dual citizen of the USA and Luxembourg, Brandon has unrestricted ability to work with firms operating in the USA and European Union.
Barbara A. Ritter, Ph.D
Organizational Consultant & Accreditation Expert
Barbara Ritter is dean of the Davis College of Business and Technology and Executive Director of Career Services at Jacksonville University. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology in 2004 from the University of Akron. Barbara has more than 100 presentations and publications in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Barbara currently serves on the AACSB Board of Directors and has previously served on the AACSB Initial Accreditation Committee, on the boards of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), the Southern Business Academic Administrators (SBAA), and Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS). She also served as division chair for the Academy of Management (AOM), Management Education and Development Division and as an Associate Editor for Organizational Management Journal. She has enjoyed chairing numerous AACSB Peer Review Team visits and serving as a team member. She also facilitates the AACSB Strategic Planning and Societal Impact Seminars.
ACCREDITATION GUIDANCE
Dr. Barbara Ritter brings years of AACSB accreditation experience to the table in providing guidance to institutions seeking to earn accreditation for the first time or renew their accreditation. Barb has chaired numerous AACSB peer review team visits, facilitates the AACSB Strategic Planning and Societal Impacts Seminars, served on the AACSB Initial Accreditation Committee, and currently serves on the AACSB Board of Directors, all of which culminates in an exceptionally deep understanding of and experience with the accreditation process and its standards.
CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
UpScholar has extensive experience and success in both physical and virtual conferences with 35 conferences run around the world comprised of over 9,000 attendees and over 4,000 sessions, as well as virtual conferences run in the pandemic-stricken 2020-2021 years that were comprised of over 350 virtual presentations with over 10,000 online accesses of those sessions.
JOURNAL MANAGEMENT
With long-time working relationships with those at SAGE, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, and even Open Access initiatives and platforms (Janeway, PKP OJS), you can trust that your journal will be in good hands as I work with your publisher and Editor-in-Chief along the lines of membership distribution, TPS access, and journal contract negotiations.
MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT
At the end of the day, without your membership - and the active engagement of that membership - you don't have an organization nor the human capital needed to fulfill your organization's mission. Through direct contact with your membership via newsletters, social media, discussion lists, and more, we will engage your members in every which way and make sure your organization remains at the forefront of their minds!
ELECTION & AWARDS MANAGEMENT
Allow us to handle streamlined nominations, elections, and awards. We'll create the necessary forms and ballots, distribute to membership, receive the votes, and certify the results, all while working with your respective committees and Board.
501(c)3 COMPLIANCE
We will work with whatever state you are incorporated in to file your Annual Report, State 990*, Federal 990, all associated schedules dependent on annual operations and receipts, and work with your registered agent. Don't have a registered agent in your state for compliance needs? We'll fix that!
*Not all states refer to annual filings as a 990.
Activate Your Board!
Allow the efficiencies of time and scale that UpScholar can instill within your organization to free up your board to focus on what matters -- what are our goals and how can we mobilize to achieve them? Don't bog your board down in the day-to-day minutiae. Set big goals. We'll strive toward those goals. We'll achieve those goals. Then what? Then we'll set even more lofty goals!
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of working with Brandon Charpied and UpScholar for three years when I President of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. Brandon was and is the Executive Operations Director of the Society and handled an amazing range of activities: from running all aspects of the conference, to website and social media development and maintenance to membership planning and growth to promotion of the annual conferences and daily interaction with Society members. I found Brandon to be extremely responsive at almost any request on my part. He had a good sense of the Society's mission and appropriate strategies which we often discussed. I always felt that Brandon had the best interests of the Society in mind; and operated on them. Brandon was, simply said a pleasure to work with and made my job as President of the Society much easier. I recommend him without any reservation.
JOSEPH SELTZER, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP, EMERITUS LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT (2013-2016) AND FELLOW, MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR TEACHING SOCIETY
I've worked with Brandon in my roles as a conference co-chair, a board member, and in our organization's leadership. As Executive Operations Director for MOBTS, Brandon has been one of the most committed, creative, and responsive individuals I've had the pleasure of working with during my time in the academy. He's a trusted colleague who brings not only technical and financial savvy to the table, but is a critical thinker open to others' perspectives and insights.
MICHEAL T. STRATTON, PH.D.
DEAN, J. WHITNEY BUNTING COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, GEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT (2019-2022), MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR TEACHING SOCIETY
Global Not-for-Profit Operations
UpScholar's upcoming conference management schedule is:
MOBTS Oceania 2024 | University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia | January 30-February 1, 2024
CLC US Invitational | John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio | March 16, 2024
CLC Canadian Invitational | Wilfred Laurier University Brantford, Ontario | March 16, 2024
CLC Global Challenge Online | Virtual | April 4, 2024
MOBTS 2024 | Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts | June 12-15, 2024
EAM International 2024 | Taipei, Taiwan | June 17-21, 2024
IACM 2024 | INSEAD Singapore | June 23-26, 2024
International MOBTS 2024 | James Cook University, Singapore | June 27-30, 2024
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