David Megathlin

Contact Information:

Email: david.megathlin@mba.sse.edu

Telephone (USA): +1 917 399 0978

Skype: david.megathlin

Career Objective

Career Objective:

To manage people, coordinate complex projects, and develop relationships with customers and clients while applying my expertise in research, communications, busienss development and corporate responsibility.

Educational Background

In July, 2008, I graduated with an MBA from the highly prestigious Stockholm School of Economics, in Stockholm, Sweden. I have a concentration in international business. I was in a dual-degree program, and also received a Masters in General Management - and wrote a thesis on corporate sustainability. 

Also earned an Masters of Arts from San Francisco State University, and completed a thesis on social culture and behavior in Iceland and Finland.

I earned a Bachelors of Science with honors in Psychology from Tufts University, in Boston, MA. After undergraduate studies, I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Psychology in Finland. 

Career summary

I have led MBA consulting projects on corporate responsibility at highly recognized global Swedish companies. My work includes:

• Developing and implementing a sustainability strategy at IKEA. 
• Creating environmental sustainability communciations toolkit for an emerging market at Ericsson. 

I managed projects in global talent management at Catalyst, a research and consulting group in New York City. Work included:

• Advising clients how to create and sustain Human Resource (HR) diversity initiatives in order to reach HR targets and maintain financial performance. 
  
• Running workshops with Fortune 500 CEOs at an annual “CEO Summit,” to help them implement HR change programs.
• Leading workplace needs-assessments in a number of companies via focus groups, interviews, and surveys. 

I also have years of experience creating and leading international projects and teaching at university. Work included:

• Creating and leading international projects in diversity and inclusion throughout the United States and Europe. 
  
• Leading all recruitment and interviewing for National Institute of Health (NIH) funded research project. 
  
• Lecturing in Sociology on the university level for 3 years at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in New York City. I taught both undergraduate lectures and graduate seminars in social theory and criminology.