Don Nightingale
Don Nightingale has retired after 30 years as a Professor of Strategy at Queens University in Canada
and continues his consulting practice specializing in strategic and organizational issues for public
and private organizations. He is also a visiting professor at the IEDC – Bled School of Management
where he teaches Strategy and Leadership. He received his BA from the University of Western
Ontario, Canada, and his PhD from the University of Michigan, USA.
In 1981, Don Nightingale founded the Executive Development Centre at Queens, which offers
Canada's largest portfolio of executive development programs for senior managers. He has
served as Associate Dean for Private Programs and has led a team that has achieved the number
one ranking in Canada for the Queen's Executive MBA program, the number two ranking for the
MBA for Science and Technology, and more top 10 rankings in the Financial Times' annual rankings
of international executive development centres than all other Canadian busine