Sharon Dobson

Sharon Dobson serves as a Lecturer at California Polytechnic State University with over 20 years of experience teaching Accounting, Finance, and Marketing. She concurrently holds significant leadership roles in the arts sector as Executive Director of Opera San Luis Obispo and contributor to outreach planning at the Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo.

Her professional expertise spans business disciplines including Accounting, Finance, and Marketing, with specialized application in cultural institution management. She demonstrates unique integration of commercial business strategies within nonprofit arts organizations, focusing on budget oversight, integrated marketing implementation, and audience development initiatives that bridge academic theory with practical execution in regional cultural ecosystems.

Prior to her current academic and arts leadership positions, Ms. Dobson managed Cal Poly's Poly Plant Shop where she developed profitability strategies that increased brand awareness, expanded customer bases, and implemented share-of-wallet concepts resulting in consistent annual sales growth through enhanced customer loyalty programs.