Chet Borucki, PhD

Chet Borucki, PhD, is an independent business consultant and specialist in executive and management education with a four-decade career spanning the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, and Kazakhstan. He holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the University of Michigan (1989), where his dissertation was chaired by Noel M. Tichy.

Most recently, Chet served for ten years at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan as Professor of Strategy and Management (2013-2023), including a four-year founding term (2013-2017) as Founding Associate Dean for Degree Programs at the Graduate School of Business. In partnership with Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, he led the design and delivery of EMBA and Full-Time MBA programs that achieved 90% graduate placement within three months of program completion. He was process owner for the development of the MSc in Finance program in collaboration with the National Bank of Kazakhstan, which provided 25 scholarships, and the Master in Engineering Management program with the School of Engineering and Digital Sciences.

Earlier in his career, Chet was Associate Dean and Academic Director of MBA Programs at TiasNimbas Business School (Tilburg University) in the Netherlands, where he led the school's transition to AACSB accreditation; Director of the EMBA Program at Temple University Japan in Tokyo; Dean of the Graduate School of International Management at International University of Japan in Urasa; and Associate Professor at Nyenrode University. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business (1989-1994), with visiting appointments at Seoul National University and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées.

Chet's published research — over 2,300 Google Scholar citations, h-index 12 — has appeared in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Academy of Management Executive, among others. His case studies on Sanex and Philips Consumer Electronics Europe each won European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) case competitions in 1996 and 1995 respectively.

At NETLINKS, Chet provides strategic counsel on organizational scaling, change leadership, and international growth — drawing on four decades of leading change inside complex international institutions.