Dayle M. Smith, PhD, Dean of the College of Business Administration (CBA) Loyola Marymount University holds her PhD in Organizational Communication, an interdisciplinary degree from the Annenberg School and the Marshall School of Business from the University of Southern California. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Globally Responsible Leadership Institute (GRLI), an international collaborative of deans and directors, the Board of Governors for Beta Gamma Sigma, and sits on the World Trade Center-Los Angeles Board of Advisors, in addition to being on the advisory board of the Foolproof Foundation’s Walter Cronkite Project. She has served on the Innovation Taskforce for the AACSB, focusing on issues related to DEI, Technology and Societal Impact.
At LMU, she leads the CBA’s faculty, students, and staff and is responsible for the undergraduate program and a graduate portfolio of 9 programs. Author of over 25 books and numerous articles in her discipline, Dayle’s research has focused primarily on leadership, communication, and organizational behavior. She is passionate about innovation culture, entrepreneurship, and corporate citizenship at the global level. Dr. Smith was one of the founding deans of the Women in Business Education (WiBE) organization and past president of Northeast Business Deans; she was a founding Board member and former Co-Chair of the Young Women’s Leadership Institute of Northern New York, past Chair of AACSB’s Women Administrators in Management
Education (WAME) and a co-founder of Lexingford Publishing Company. Dayle was named a Fulbright Scholar in 2010 and was on the Fulbright team that helped shape Hong Kong’s General Education requirements across 7 institutions. She also served on the board of ViviendasLeon, an international NGO. Dayle has been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA 500 “Most Influential People in Los Angeles” for each of the last four years: 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
