Debbi D. Brock

Debbi D. Brock is an internationally recognized expert on social entrepreneurship and professional trainer and consultant for various organizations focusing on social entrepreneurship and scaling social impact. Brock joined Wingate University as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in 2012. In 2011, she was awarded the “Distinguished Service to the Field of Social Entrepreneurship Education” by AshokaU. Previously, Brock served as the William and Kay Moore Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Assistant Professor in the Economics and Business department and Director of the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good (EPG) program. Her passion is social entrepreneurship and how students can identify and seize new opportunities to become agents of change. In 2003, she created the Social Entrepreneurship Education Resource Handbook for faculty interested in understanding and teaching in the field of social entrepreneurship. Brock’s research includes over 300 courses that address social entrepreneurship with over 140 specific courses in social entrepreneurship in over 35 countries. Brock’s recent publications include “Using the Social Entrepreneurship Model to Teach Engineering Students How to Create Lasting Change,” with Susan Steiner and Lois Jordon and Appalachian by Design: Lessons on Creating Social Value” with co-authors Diane Browning and Barbara Elliott that won the best practitioner paper at USASBE. As the former Director of the Entrepreneurial Resource Lab at Miami University in Ohio, Brock was responsible for building the Lab’s experiential learning programs.