Charles L. Sidman

From a career spanning university professorships, laboratory research, management consulting, public speaking, investing and entrepreneurship, Dr. Charles Sidman, MBA, PhD, has distilled realistic yet compassionate under-standings, and powerfully useful guidance, for many challenging areas of modern life.

Dr. Charles Sidman is Professor of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology in the College of Medicine, Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration, and Professor of Ethics, Human Diversity and Complex Systems in the Honors Scholars Program, all at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also owns and operates a management consulting and speaking practice, Evolutionary Management, Inc., and is founder, director or member of a number of early stage companies and investment organizations. In these roles, he researches, teaches, speaks and applies insights from evolutionary biology and genetics to problems of strategic management, innovation, organizational change and professional ethics.

His background includes service in a variety of industries, public and private institutions, not-for-profit and for-profit entities, in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Sidman earned his undergraduate (A.B. in Biochemical Sciences) and graduate (A.M. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Immunology) degrees from Harvard University, an MBA (in Management) from the University of Cincinnati, and has done sabbatical work in Complexity Science at the Santa Fe Institute. He splits his time between bases in Maine and Ohio, and prefers to travel at the controls of his own aircraft.