About
Craig Milner is a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations at the Dhillon School of Business, University of Lethbridge. With over 20 years of corporate management experience at industry giants including General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and PepsiCo (where he served as Frito Lay's Taber plant manager), he integrates real-world expertise into business education.
His academic credentials include:
- Bachelor of Science from GMI Engineering & Management Institute (now Kettering University)
- MBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University
Milner specializes in high-performance team dynamics and collaborative organizational structures, focusing on practical applications in leadership development. His research examines how team-based frameworks drive organizational transformation, bridging theoretical models with operational execution in corporate environments.
Scholarly output centers on his 2007 conference paper analyzing business model evolution toward collaborative structures, reflecting his decade-long work redesigning leadership programs at The Banff Centre. This research trajectory emphasizes actionable frameworks for team optimization rather than purely theoretical exploration.
He actively translates research into pedagogy through courses like Designing High Performance Teams and Managerial Skill Development, while maintaining industry engagement via his circlesNdots.com platform exploring collaborative business models. Milner's teaching methodology directly leverages his corporate leadership background to contextualize academic concepts.
