Dr.Lloyd M.Basham

Senior Lecturer, Marketing and Management

Lloyd M. Basham (BBA, Accounting, MBA, M.A., International Management, Ed. D, Leadership) is a senior lecturer of marketing and management in the College of Business and Technology at Texas A & M University – Commerce. His practical experiences are as an early corporate America executive retiree with 30 years of corporate background. These associations were with Fortune 200 firms in the Computer/Telecommunications -Motorola and Nortel - and Security/Risk and Financial Services -The Pittston Company- industries in various executive positions both in financial and operational capacities. Presently is the founder/President of a consulting firm LMB LLC. The practice offers financial and management services for organizations experiencing change and need assistance with process changes, structural development, and strategic direction as well as assisting start-up ventures with the development of business plans. Recent clients include a Fortune 400 firm with a Lean Sigma initiative project as well as merger and acquisition endeavor and a NASDAQ firm with a business development (marketing strategy) project. The firm's offerings to higher education include: faculty instruction in business courses with accredited institutions of higher learning; affiliation with Texas A & M University-Commerce as Executive Director of President's Cabinet, Chairman of Foundation Board, Advisory Board member for the College of Business and Technology and drafter/developer of a co-education agreement between TAMU-Commerce and China University Geosciences Beijing China (CUGB). Have lectured in Beijing, China on the benefits/practices of doing business with an American firm. Assisted Chinese venture firm in the development of a business plan and obtainment of a loan to provide products/services during the 2008 Olympics. Currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) for an Ed D in Organizational Leadership from Texas A & M University-Commerce. Present status includes the completion of all course work, approval of proposal defense, and currently gathering and finalizing data from a Delphi study to complete dissertation defense in subject of Presidents as Transformational or Transactional Leaders in Higher Education. Online instruction includes the development and instruction of graduate courses in Organization Leadership and Change Management, Marketing Management and Management and on premise undergraduate courses in Critical Thinking and Decision Making and Marketing. As an senior lecturer with Texas A & M University – Commerce have taught, since 2002, on premises undergraduate and online graduate classes in Entrepreneur Strategy, Strategy Management, Operations Management, Introduction to Business Finance, Marketing, Distribution Management for Global Markets, Transforming Organizations, Managing on the Edge, Marketing Management, Marketing Environment and Operations and Organizations and International Marketing.