The Professor Inc.

Dr. Jeffrey Overall founded The Professor Inc. He leads it as president.

He is a former tenured professor of entrepreneurship and strategy. He spent nearly a decade in academia. He worked at six international business schools in four countries.

In Canada, he taught at Ontario Tech University, Nipissing University and Toronto Metropolitan University. He received tenure at Ontario Tech in 2020. In Germany, he taught at Leibniz Universität Hannover. In the United Kingdom, he worked at the University of Bradford School of Management. In Russia, he was a guest lecturer at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

He has worked with entrepreneurs for more than 20 years. He has mentored hundreds of them, including founders in the DMZ at Toronto Metropolitan University and Brilliant Catalyst at Ontario Tech. He has also founded several organizations across different sectors.

His research looks at why organizations fail, and what helps them succeed. He turned that research into a product, the Entrepreneurial Failure Risk Assessment System, built for venture capital firms. He has more than 60 scholarly and professional publications.

He has consulted widely across government, industry and universities. He worked with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) on leadership and workforce wellbeing. He led the research on a three-year, $1 million Government of Canada project.

He holds a PhD in decision-making, an MBA in international management, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in marketing management.