Profile

Marc Hurwitz

Bio

Marc Hurwitz is co-founder and Chief Insight Officer of FliP University and FliPskills, providing professional services and online training around Followership, leadership, innovation, & Partnerships (FliP).He is also Associate Director, Undergraduate and Non-degree Programs at the Conrad School of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Waterloo.

Marc holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, an MBA, Masters degrees in physics and mathematics, and combines that with many years of corporate, executive and entrepreneurial experience in diverse areas including marketing, finance, training and development, HR, and a brief stint as an actuary. 

He chaired the first Global Followership Conference in 2019; co-authored the best seller, "Leadership is half the story: A fresh look at followership, leadership, and collaboration" (University of Toronto Press, Toronto:Canada, 2015); co-edited the book, "Followership in action" (Emerald Publishing, 2016); and is currently co-editing a volume in the New Directions in Student Leadership series on followership. He is also the past chair of the Followership Learning Community at ILA and co-manages the followership LinkedIn group.

On a personal note, Marc is active in the arts community as a performer and director of musical theatre as well as being a performance poet and pinball player.

Education

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
PhD, 2011
Cognitive Neuroscience
2006 To 2011
Dissertation: Dynamic judgments of spatial extent: Behavioural, neural, and computational studies.
Advisor: Dr. James Danckert, Dr. Chris Eliasmith

Wilfrid Laurier U.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
MBA, 2000
General business
1997 To 2000

University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
MSc, 1988
Applied mathematics
1986 To 1988
Dissertation: A two-component two-parameter model of habituation.
Advisor: Dr. Smith

McMaster U.
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
MSc., 1984
Nuclear physics
1983 To 1984
Dissertation: Some aspects of group theory in atomic and nuclear physics.
Advisor: Dr. R. Bhaduri