Background
Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, Dent is the son of an International Business Machines Corporation employee. Hence, his family moved three times, finally settling in Boca Raton, Florida.
Dean of the School of Business
Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, Dent is the son of an International Business Machines Corporation employee. Hence, his family moved three times, finally settling in Boca Raton, Florida.
He attended Saint Andrew"s School, then attended Emory University, receiving Master of Surgery and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in Computer Science.
Doctor Dent then moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland where he worked for International Business Machines Corporation, designing satellite communication systems Doctor Dent later served as Vice President, Operations and General Manager of the Washington, District of Columbia office of the Todd Organization, a national executive compensation consulting firm. Foreign several years Doctor Dent worked as a management consultant with Macro International.
As Technical Director, he managed over $10 million of training and development contracts with the federal government.
He most frequently consulted with The Royal Bank of Canada, The United States Navy, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In 1993, Dent founded Always Improvement, a management consulting firm dedicated to organizational improvement.
His recent work has been in the areas of organizational change, consultation skills, team-building, conflict resolution, strategic planning, total quality management, leadership, and business process assessment. In the same year, he began work on his M.B.A with a major in Organizational Behavior and Development and a minor in Finance.
Mid-career, he began his doctoral work, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in Management and Organization from the School of Business and Public Management at George Washington University.
During this time, he taught at the University of Maryland University College, where he would later become the Executive Director of the Doctoral Programs. During 2002-2003 Dent co-hosted LeaderTalk, a talk show in which Chief executive officers and other thought leaders were interviewed about their business wisdom. He began his tenure as Dean of the School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in August 2003 and ended July 2008.
He left the University of North Carolina at Pembroke for Fayetteville State University in 2012, where he currently serves as chair of the faculty senate.
He has also twice visited Cuba, lecturing at the Biennial Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory conference, the second time speaking on "The Challenges of Observation, Inquiry, and Measurement in Complexity Theory."
Dent is a lifelong Methodist, currently attending Chestnut Street United Microelectronics Corporation in Lumberton, North Carolina where he lives with his family. He is active in various groups in Robeson County, such as the Robeson Community Foundation, Robeson Economic Forum, and the Chamber of Commerce.
"Complexity theory is an approach to research, study, and perspective that is holistic, interdependent and nonhierarchical.".
Quotations: "Complexity theory is an approach to research, study, and perspective that is holistic, interdependent and nonhierarchical.".