Cheri Alexander

Cheri Alexander is a Faculty Member, Management and Organizations, University of Michigan Ross School of Business.. She teaches Leadership, Global Competency, and Human Capital in the Bachelors, Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Management Programs. In addition, she teaches assorted leadership and HR topics for Executive Education. She, with peers at Ross, teaches online in 4 programs and 5 additional,  individually. These appear on the Coursera Platform for the Center for Academic Innovation/Michigan Online. She also supports programs at Michigan's Engineering School

Prior to retiring from General Motors, she was President of the General Motors University and Executive Director Global HR. In that position, she was the Chief Learning Officer overseeing Global Learning & Performance. Cheri was part of the company's Global Integration Team that oversaw Global HR Implementation, focusing on emerging markets.

At GM, Ms. Alexander had thirty-three years of successful International HR Management and Labor Relations experience. She has HR expertise in Mergers and Acquisitions, JV formation and execution, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, corporate universities, security, crisis management, safety, industrial health engineering, and business process outsourcing. She was nominated several times and received the Chairman's Award for work in positive downsizing.

In addition to the multiple areas inside HR in which she has worked, Alexander had assignments in Plant Management, Quality, and Engineering. She lived and worked in 5 countries on 3 continents and was responsible for all HR outside of North America, as the Vice President of HR for International Operations, overseeing and visiting operations in 52 countries.

A native of Detroit, Cheri received her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Michigan, as well as her first Masters in Industrial Health Engineering. She was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and completed her second Masters, a Masters of Science in Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a Certified Executive Leadership Coach.

Cheri has published work on Noise Induced Hearing Loss and completed her thesis on the Relocation of Dislocated Automobile Workers. Her work is cited in three books, United We Stand, by Wilbur and Weakley,  Successful Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances by Gancel, Rodgers, and Raynaud and Road to Power by Colby.

In addition to her work, Cheri is on the Board of the Inforum Center for Leadership. Cheri is dedicated to global education and often speaks on her favorite topics, "Being International" and "Global Superficial Homogenization – What it Means to be Global."