Professor of Business and Management

Mohamad H. Fawaz

  • Professor
  • Management & Marketing
  • Business Strategy
  • Entrepreneurship & SMEs

Teaching management, marketing and business operations at St. Clair College and the University of Niagara Falls Canada, and advising small and medium-sized enterprises on business planning, strategy and growth.

Windsor, Ontario, Canada Teaching in English and Arabic PhD, MBA
  1. 20 +
    Years in higher education and professional practice
    Lebanon and Canada, 2004 to today
  2. 2
    Current academic appointments
    St. Clair College · University of Niagara Falls Canada
  3. 11
    Years at the Islamic University of Lebanon
    Two campuses; Head of the Management Department 2020–2021
  4. 3
    Degrees
    PhD, MBA and Bachelor of Commerce
What I do

Four areas where teaching, research and practice meet

Management & Marketing

Strategic management, human resource management, organisational behaviour, marketing and business operations, taught at college and university level in Canada and Lebanon, in English and Arabic.

Teaching

Entrepreneurship & SMEs

International business management and SME management in the classroom; published research on the role of SMEs in the Lebanese economy; two decades advising founders and small business owners.

Entrepreneurship and SME teaching

Business Planning & Strategy

Business plans, market assessment, feasibility studies, competitive and industry analysis, and financial modelling — taught as subjects and delivered as professional work.

Business & Projects

Capstone & Academic Mentoring

Graduate capstone and applied project supervision: problem definition, research design, analysis, recommendations, and the presentation of findings to people who will act on them.

Capstone supervision
Where I teach

Two current appointments in Ontario

Management, marketing, business operations and international business at the Zekelman School of Business; graduate business strategy and capstone supervision at the University of Niagara Falls Canada.

Professor, Business and Management

Zekelman School of Business, St. Clair College

Windsor, Ontario · June 2023 – present

Sessional Professor, Business Analytics

University of Niagara Falls Canada

Niagara Falls, Ontario · January 2026 – present

The full academic record

Selected work

Three things worth knowing

  1. Role of SMEs in Lebanese Economy

    Farran, I., & Fawaz, M. (2018). Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 1(2), 78.

    Research
  2. Graduate capstone supervision

    DAMO 699, University of Niagara Falls Canada — run on the arc of a real consulting engagement.

    Teaching
  3. CedarBridge Consulting

    Two decades of SME advisory, from business plans for Windsor clients in 2004 to an independent practice today.

    Business & Projects
Get in touch

Teaching, research, speaking or academic collaboration

Consulting enquiries go to CedarBridge Consulting.