Dr. Michael Henry

Michael Henry is the Dean of the School of Business & Economics at Thompson Rivers University. Mike Henry’s career spans the non-profit and private sectors, government and academia. His experience includes leadership of non-profit organizations, political organization, experience as a provincial elected official, small business ownership and consulting to government and the resource sector. He is a past president of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, President-Elect of the Canadian Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship and the Treasurer of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans. He is a board member of the Kamloops Innovation Council, the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce and the Uptown Business Association. He regularly consults to government, non-profit and private businesses on strategy, regulatory affairs and public engagement. His research focuses on gender and trust issues in family business succession and international differences in family business. Mike holds an MBA from the University of Alberta and a DBA from the University of Southern Queensland.