Brit McClellan is an Instructor ABD in the Management & Entrepreneurship Department, School of Technology and Innovation. She is completing her PhD from University of Washington's Foster School of Business in Technology Entrepreneurship and Strategy and received her MBA from USC Marshall’s School of Business. Her research sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, corporate governance, and strategic decision-making under uncertainty, examining how governance dynamics shape strategic outcomes in high-stakes corporate events such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and innovation-driven market change.
Brit has a rich and diverse professional background in organizational leadership, business development, and strategic consulting prior to academia. She served as Vice President of People Operations for a 450-employee company, where she helped guide the firm through a successful private equity acquisition. This hands-on experience with firm-level strategic decision-making, leadership dynamics, and scaling operations gives her a unique lens into the phenomena she now studies empirically. It fuels her research intuition and allows her to engage with theoretical questions through a grounded, practitioner-informed perspective that brings both relevance and rigor to her work.
She has presented her research at major conferences including the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society, organized symposia and participated in doctoral workshops and consortia across conferences. Brit is building a scholarly identity that bridges academic theory and executive relevance, advancing governance, entrepreneurship, and strategic management under uncertainty.
Brit combines theoretical ambition with empirical rigor, contributing to both scholarly conversations and practical insights in corporate strategy and innovation ecosystems.