Dayle Smith, Ph.D

Dean of the College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount university

Dayle M. Smith, Ph.D., is dean of the College of Business Administration at LMU where she leads strategy for executive, graduate and undergraduate programs.

Smith joined LMU on June 1, 2018, from Clarkson University in upstate New York, where she served as dean of the David D. Reh School of Business. As a tenured professor of consumer and organizational studies, she held the Elmer Gates Endowed Professorship for Innovation Culture. In her last five years at Clarkson, Smith was instrumental in growing a diverse faculty; developing new programs; merging two business schools; fundraising for student start-up funds, two new endowed faculty chairs, and the naming of the school. She successfully led the school through AACSB, ABET, CAHME, and Middle States accreditations. Smith also co-led the design and development of a boundary-spanning innovation hub and an innovation initiative at Clarkson with the dean of engineering.

She was recently accepted into the international collaborative of deans and directors named to the Globally Responsible Leadership Institute (GRLI) to engage in dialogue and joint initiatives developing leadership and business practices worldwide. Smith is past president of the Northeast Business Deans Association (NEBDA), a board member for international NGO, ViviendasLeón in Nicaragua, and served as chair of the Women Administrators in Management Education (WAME) Affinity Group at the AACSB, comprised of more than 600 business education leaders. She has been active in service learning in an academic environment, receiving numerous awards for her work in curriculum design and leading university-wide service learning curriculum initiatives.