About Lorenzo Bizzi
Award-winning instructor, speaker, researcher, professor, and author, Lorenzo Bizzi has trained over one thousand managers and executives and has consulted for about one hundred companies.
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Experience
Training
Dr. Bizzi has about 20 years of experience in managerial and executive training. He won the 2023 Carol Barnes Teaching Award for best instructor of California State University Fullerton (2,000+ faculty). He has been a finalist nominee for the Family Wang Award for best instructor of the whole California State University system (23 universities). He was the recipient of the Executive Council Award for best professor of the College of Business and Economics at Cal State Fullerton. He has taught the capstone course of the MBA program for 12 years. Besides California State University, he taught at Bocconi University, in Milan, at University of Bologna, and at McGill University, in Montreal. He trained managers, senior consultants, executives, board members, and CEOs.
Training Abroad Programs
Dr. Bizzi founded Training Abroad, his new program that takes sales professionals to exotic destinations all over the world. It is an immersive experience that combines training on the latest trends in sales, networking with selected business professionals, enjoying beautiful places, engaging in fun activities, and living life to the fullest. Dr. Bizzi previously took hundreds of students in international academic programs in England, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Costa Rica, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, and Argentina.
Speaking
Dr. Bizzi has been a distinguished and keynote speaker at meetings, conferences, and events all over the world. His experience ranges from being a distinguished speaker at the largest tech conference of the world in Dubai to delivering keynote speeches to managers in India or the Philippines and from large audiences of hundreds of people to smaller audiences in boards of directors’ retreats. He is a speaker for Vistage, the world's largest CEO membership organization. He has spoken to managers, executives, and CEOs about sales, strategy, and leadership.
Consulting
Dr. Bizzi has been involved in strategic consulting for about 20 years. He advised about one hundred businesses ranging in size from a few millions to several billions. He worked with the government and the private sector, for companies in industries such as banking, tech, retail, aerospace, healthcare, construction, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food and beverage, hospitality, and entertainment. He led MBA teams that won twice the national competition of the Small Business Institute for the best consulting project in the nation.
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Scientific contributions
Research
Dr. Bizzi’s work has been cited over 1,000 times. He has published in prestigious academic journals in management, such as, among others, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Group & Organization Management, Human Relations, and Human Resource Management. He has been the recipient of the Citation of Excellence Award by Emerald Publishing for the global impact of his research. He has been on the editorial review board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Group & Organization Management. His work has been featured in major world newspapers and media, such as Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Smart Company, CEO Magazine, Yahoo Finance, and has been cited in popular business news press in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia.