Houston Peschl

Houston Peschl, MBA, is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Haskayne School of Business in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability. His research focus has been to develop a new signature pedagogy for the 21st century undergraduate student. Specifically, how do we train students who do NOT self-identify as an entrepreneur the valuable skills of Entrepreneurial Thinking (ET7): 1) Problem solving, 2) Comfort with uncertainty, 3) Failing forward (learning from failures), 4) Empathy (perspective taking), 5) Creativity with limited resources, 6) Responding to, and analyzing feedback, and 7) Successful at teamwork & human resource growth. Peschl's current project is analyzing data that was collected from a large undergraduate student sample, and involves comparing a signature pedagogy to a standard introduction to an Entrepreneurship course, as well as working with Venture for Canada to see how the ET7 are learned in internships with Canadian startups. Peschl is also currently working with the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) as a moderator in the ag-tech stream, and working on a research project to track and embed UN SDG’s into new ventures with the CDL. Peschl received a Canadian National grant to understand best practices for business schools to teach sustainability, and is also developing new curriculum at the Haskayne School of Business to embed the UN SDG’s into the core curriculum of all mandatory courses for undergraduates, MBA’s and EMBA’s based on the UN’s PRME framework.