Ormsbee promoted to associate profesor on teaching track at Clarkson

Floyd Ormsbee has been promoted from assistant professor on the teaching track to associate professor of consumer & organizational studies in the David D. Reh School of Business.

Ormsbee earned his Ph.D. in management from Carleton University, his master of science degree in management systems from Clarkson, his bachelor of science in business economics from SUNY Potsdam, and associate degrees in both business administration, and banking, insurance, and real estate from SUNY Canton.

Ormsbee teaches undergraduate courses in organizational behavior, negotiations, and organizational policy and strategy; graduate courses in organizational behavior, negotiations, strategic planning and leading organizational change; and executive/graduate courses in negotiations and relationship management, and change leadership. He also leads students in educational trips abroad to Australia and Thailand.

He teaches an elective course for the municipal leader development program "Bridges to Leadership" at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, and has served as a subject matter expert with McGraw-Hill Irwin in the development of online teaching products in management and organizational behavior areas.

Ormsbee is an active peer reviewer for a number of academic journals and conferences and has published research on generational issues in the workplace related to past and present work experiences. He has also served as faculty advisor and faculty reader for several undergraduate honors theses.

He is a past recipient of the Clarkson Distinguished Teaching Award, the Clarkson School of Business Service Award, and Beta Gamma Sigma's Ralph Janero Teaching Award, and was selected by graduating seniors to present a "Last Lecture" presentation twice.

Ormsbee is president of the Clarkson Chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and a member of the Clarkson Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.

He served on the faculty senate from 2006 to 2020 when he departed to assume the role of Associate Dean in the Reh School of Business. He served as vice-chair of the faculty senate from 2016 to 2020. He has also served as the Reh School of Business faculty secretary, on the Reh School of Business graduate policy committee, the MBA admissions committee and the global business proposals committee. He previously served as faculty advisor for Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity and the Clarkson chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Ormsbee has served as a keynote speaker for the St. Lawrence Leadership Institute numerous times and has delivered a variety of keynote presentations and talks on generational issues in the workplace, strategic issues, cultivating professionalism in the workplace, and managing organizational change to local, regional and international associations and organizations in both the United States and Canada.

A native of Heuvelton, N.Y., Ormsbee worked in the insurance industry for a number of years before returning to complete his college studies. He joined the Clarkson admissions office in 1998 and then taught briefly at SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton before starting his Clarkson teaching career in 2002.

Ormsbee has served in the Rotary Club, Lions Club, and Knights of Columbus and resides outside Waddington, N.Y., with his wife, Amber Ormsbee.