Teaching

As a young person, I struggled mightily with academics, attending twelve schools before graduating from high school.  I never went to college.  Today, the course I developed and taught for 3 years at Belmont University is among the most-recommended of the Entertainment Industry Studies undergraduate major, and I was honored to receive the Adjunct Professor of the Year Award in 2010.  My aim was to take an immersive approach, wherein students are assembled into teams and tasked with branding and marketing a client of their own throughout the semester.  Their core skills are acquired through a combination of classroom lectures and a range of course materials.  At semester’s end, each team presents their results to a panel of esteemed judges, which in the past have included executives and successful entrepreneurs from all kinds of backgrounds, such as advertising agencies, major and independent record labels, mainstream radio personalities and more. The course is now in the hands Michael Stuart Sloane, a brand marketing master and MBA graduate of Belmont University.