Judy Jones Tisdale

Judy Jones Tisdale teaches core and elective courses focusing on presentation skills and leadership communication in the Full-Time MBA Program and a core course addressing professional communication skills in the PhD Program.

She also has taught core writing and presentation courses in the Undergraduate Business, Evening Executive MBA, Weekend Executive MBA and Master of Accounting Programs, and an elective leadership communication course in the Evening Executive MBA and Weekend Executive MBA Programs.

An award-winning teacher, she received the prestigious Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Gerald Barrett Award for Outstanding MBA Teaching and Service.

Dr. Tisdale’s research involves leadership communication, business presentations and accounting communication. She is the author of the book “Effective Business Presentations” (Prentice Hall, 2005).

She joined the UNC Kenan-Flagler faculty in 1998 after working for 13 years as a vice president with Bank of America in sales and sales management in the consumer/small business division.

Dr. Tisdale has facilitated presentation training for the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Executive Education Professional Development Program and supported academic presentation training for the UNC Graduate School’s Dissertation Fellows and Royster’s Fellows.

She created and taught the inaugural Professional Communication: Presentation Skills course for the UNC Graduate School’s Professional Science Master’s Program. Additionally, she taught the elective “Presentation Skills” course for graduate students across UNC in the UNC Graduate School’s Professional Development Program for 13 years.

She received her PhD in English from UNC-Greensboro, her MA in English from Appalachian State University, and her BA in English and Spanish from High Point University.