Executive Education
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Dr. Govahi is the Assistant Dean of Instruction and Research Support and Director of Experiential Learning Center at the USC Marshall School of Business. During her tenure, she has inaugurated a great number of training programs and conducted numerous training sessions for the School’s Graduate, Undergraduate and Executive Education Programs. Over the past several decades and with Marshall’s full support, she has created an Experiential Learning component that has been built into the curriculum of the core courses at the Business School. She has also successfully incorporated effective and appropriate technologies to support the pedagogical needs of Business Classes.

Gita has been conducting experiential learning activities for Marshall’s Executive Education clients such as Kaiser Permanente, TransDigm, American Orthopedic Association, and HEB for the past 10 years. She has also conducted management training sessions for a number of professional programs and organizations on campus such as Rossier School of Education, Lusk Real Estate and USC’s culture Journey just to name a few.

Dr. Govahi has special interest in cross-cultural training and has worked as a consultant in this area. Over the past 25 years, Gita has published papers and articles on the topic of Experiential Learning. Gita’s previous research interests include technology adoption, virtual learning, and creativity in teams. Gita serves as a DEI fellow at Marshall.

Dr. Govahi received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the USC Marshall School of Business and her Master of Science degree in Applied Behavioral Science also from USC. Gita received her Ph.D. in Information Science from Claremont Graduate University in 2011.