Dr. Stephen Walls has been teaching and consulting in Design Thinking for the past 10 years. Stephen holds an appointment as the Assistant Director for Instructional Innovation and Marketing and a Senior Lecturer in the Marketing Department in the McCombs School of Business, where, in addition to Design Thinking, he continues to teach courses on Marketing Principles, Brand Management, and Digital Marketing within undergraduate and masters programs. He has received a number of teaching awards since joining the McCombs faculty in 2002.
Stephen has also recently served as Deputy Director of the TEXAS Extended Campus, which provides high quality education to non-degree seeking students, including the fully online UT High School, University Extension, Testing and Evaluation Services, Center for Professional Education, Petroleum Extension, Informal Classes, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, AP Summer Institutes Road Scholar, and the Thompson Conference Center.
Stephen has a distinguished career in business and academia with a unique combination of experiences across marketing, technology, and education. He completed his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and his MBA at the University of Texas and his BBA in Marketing at Texas A&M University. His varied industry experience includes marketing, human resources, and technology management positions at Dell, Vignette, ibooks.com, American Airlines, and Walmart.