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Bradley R. staAts

Brad Staats is an award winning teacher and researcher who integrates work in operations management and human behavior to understand how and under what conditions individuals, teams, and organizations can perform their best. His research uses archival data and field experiments to provide an interdisciplinary perspective that contributes to improving operations in the healthcare, technology, and service industries. He works with many companies around the world on their learning and analytics strategies.

He not only researches and teaches on these topics, but also works to apply them as an accomplished academic administrator. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Strategy and Academics at UNC Kenan-Flagler where he oversees the undergraduate, MBA, Master of Accounting (MAC) and Master of Science in Management (MSM) programs, digital transformation of course development and teaching excellence through the Faculty Consulting Group as well as academic centers, including Energy, Family Enterprise, Healthcare, Investment Management, Real Estate, Sustainability and STAR Consulting. In addition he leads the Collaborative Adaptive Business Education strategic initiative, redefining business education to prepare graduates with adaptive skills, experiential learning, and industry-aligned expertise for impact in a changing world. Prior to that he served as Associate Dean of MBA Programs where he helped lead the full-time, evening, weekend, Charlotte (launched in 2022) and online MBA programs through COVID and curricular transformation to build community and strengthen ties to industry.

In addition, he founded and leads the UNC Center for the Business of Health, an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together expertise across UNC to drive significant impact within higher education, the healthcare industry, and ultimately in the lives of individuals and communities.

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  • “In this astute work, Bradley Staats describes the forces that are propelling us into an economy that values the ability to learn above all else. Using a mix of behavioral science and operations research, he demystifies the learning process and explains how each of us can become a dynamic learner. This book is essential reading for anyone hoping to learn faster and better.”
    — Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive
  • “Never Stop Learning is the best book ever written about how you, your team, and your organization can keep learning to do better and more fulfilling work. ... Staats weaves it all together to create a masterpiece that is so fun to read and so useful that you won’t be able put it down. And, after your done, you will never think about your work in quite the same way again.”
    — Robert Sutton, Stanford Professor, author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and Scaling Up Excellence
  • “With change accelerating, the ability to learn has become the quintessential business skill. Yet most people aren’t very good at it, and most company cultures subtly discourage it. Teaching people and companies to become fast, effective and continuous learners, which Staats does compellingly in this new book, is a fundamental first step toward conquering the future.”
    — Alan Murray, President, Fortune
  • “Once upon a time, competitive advantage belonged to the people who knew the most. Now it accrues to those who know how to learn the most. Brad Staats is a leading expert on learning, and his book will take you through the latest evidence on accelerating your learning at work.”
    — Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg
  • “A brilliant tutorial in how we learn — or more often — how we don’t. The essential guidebook to prepare for a new age.”
    — General (Ret) Stanley McChrystal, Commander, International Security Assistance Force and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, bestselling author of Team of Teams