Dr. Brian W. Hagen is a founder and Managing Director of the Decision Empowerment Institute, an organization focused on improving decision making in commercial and governmental organizations through education, consulting services, and software applications. He is the winner of the 2011 Risk Innovator of the Year for the PRO Enterprise Management Methodology awarded by Risk & Insurance Magazine.
Dr. Hagen has been a practicing decision and risk consultant for over 30 years providing consulting, coaching, and training to more than 30 corporations in the Fortune 200 and numerous mid-size corporations for the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, enterprise applications, high-tech, information & media, oil & gas, pharmaceutical & biotechnology, and pulp & paper industries.
As an Adjunct Professor within the Finance Department of California State University, Fullerton he teaches the graduate course on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).
Dr. Hagen holds a Ph.D. in Management Science with emphasis in decision and risk analysis from Stanford University. He is the author of Problem, Risk, and Opportunity Enterprise Management and the coauthor of Solving the Corporate Value Enigma, and Decision Empowerment: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Good Decision Makers.