By Jacqueline Mumford
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Ruchi M. Watson teaches in the Department of Entrepreneurship & Strategy at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, while also serving as managing director of the Goff Strategic Leadership Center. Watson has many years of experience in academia, working on the dean’s team prior to becoming the managing director, but her background is diverse: she has a bachelor’s in chemical engineering, an MBA, and a doctoral degree in higher education management.
For Watson, education is all about connection: connecting professors to students, students to material, and material to the real world. Young people are poised to take on an ever-changing world, and Watson believes that strategic navigation of problems, and a problem-finding approach, can help them tackle big issues.