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Brian Gurski is a part-time lecturer at the School of Design Strategies at Parsons. Having taught a range of courses since 2012, he currently teaches Strategic Management, a topic that draws from his professional experience as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Innovation at a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that invests in low income communities across the US. In his role, he facilitates the formulation and implementation of organizational strategy and supports the innovation of new programs, products, and services, the development of operating systems and processes for data management, capital deployment, and advisory services, and the measurement and management of social impact.

Brian has 20+ years of experience in economic development, financial inclusion, and small business development both domestically and internationally. He has worked as a strategy and change management consultant in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. He has also served as a director of a New York State Small Business Development Center and a lending team manager for another CDFI serving predominantly new immigrant communities in New York City. In addition to teaching at Parsons, Brian originated and teaches a course on social enterprise in the Executive Master of Public Administration Program at SIPA/Columbia University. Brian completed an MBA at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College/CUNY, a bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College, and executive training in value innovation from The Aresty Institute for Executive Education at The Wharton School.