PhD, MSEM | Systems Management, Science

Megan's expertise is the management of complex adaptive systems (CAS) with 15 years in Engineering Management, Systems Science, Systems Engineering, and Industrial Engineering. Megan's experience addressing complex challenges spans the public and private sectors, industries, functional areas, disciplines, cultures, and academic domains.

For the past 10 years, Megan has supported the U.S. government in design, execution, and evaluation of policy in the U.S. and internationally. Her clients include the U.S. Agency for International Development, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans' Affairs, and Department of Homeland Security. Her work has been at the intersection of social and sociotechnical system dynamics, and process and program management, in research and practice.

She is a professor of systems management, the sets of principles, concepts, and skills that consider and manage complex systems to good effect while mitigating risk and less-good outcomes, or emergent behavior, for policy and management. Her research, for Feed the Future at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, defined and developed a framework for evaluating systemic change in complex adaptive systems, and found the import of social capital in achieving smallholder market resilience.

She started her career researching, contributing to, and leading humanitarian efforts in the U.S., Mozambique, and Belize. She advanced environmental sustainability and CSR initiatives in the transportation industry by leading groundbreaking projects and partnerships at one of the largest logistics providers in North America in partnership with major retailers and manufacturers. She served as a leader in support of alumni and current students at her Alma maters. She has been an advocate for industrial and systems engineering students, especially. She advocated for women and children, especially refugees and victims of trafficking, by starting businesses with support from partners and meeting with members of our U.S. Congress, in support of outcomes that would disenable to some extent trafficking and systematically reduce some vulnerabilities inherent in the female experience and encourage strengths therein.

After various strategy, management, and operational expertise, interests are varied and include applications of AI and automation with holistic commitments and understandings for a secure world. Ongoing projects are related to these. At the moment, further inquiry or connection could be made to megan@megan-peters.com, if desired.

Selected Encouragement

“Consider the attributes of an exemplary leader… honesty, integrity, confidence, inspiration, commitment, passion, communication, decision-making, accountability, delegation, empowerment, creativity, innovation, and empathy. Megan Peters has demonstrated that she possesses each, plus more.” Dr. John A. White, Author of Why It Matters: Reflections on Practical Leadership

Thank You Sincerely.

Education

PhD in Systems Engineering & MS in Engineering Management from The George Washington University

with very special impact by Erica Gralla PhD, Professor of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering;

EMSE Dept. & Peers;

and many Others.

BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas

with very special impact by Kim Needy PhD, Dean of the College of Engineering;

John A. White PhD, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Arkansas;

Thomas Carter PhD, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering;

IISE Dept. & Peers;

and many Others.