Cam Welsh

Cameron Welsh

BSc, BA, MBA

Positions

Associate Professor (Teaching) emeritus

Haskayne School of Business, Business Technology Management [BTM]

Contact information

Email

cnwelsh@ucalgary.ca

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Background

Educational Background

M.B.A. Comm, Manag & Bus Admin, University of Calgary, 1994

B.A. Psychology, University of Calgary, 1990

B.S. Zoology, University of Calgary, 1986

Cameron Welsh CV

Biography

Cameron is an Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Business Technology Management area at the Haskayne School of Business. He has been teaching at Haskayne since 1999 and is currently on sabbatical. He is retiring from teaching on January 1, 2025.

In addition to his academic career, Cam has professional experience as the founder and CEO of a family-based business. Initially, the company focused on tourism, community-based marketing, and environmental management in southwest Alberta. It is now shifting its focus to coaching critical thinking and soft business skills and developing original thinking and case-solving programming for its clients. 

Cam has received several awards and certifications over his time at Haskayne. Notable recognitions include the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service Leadership for Faculty 2011-2013, Faculty Advisor of the Year at JDC West (2012, 2018, and 2021), and back-to-back Best Coach awards at the Engineering Commerce Case Competition in 2016 and 2017. He is a certified Instructional Skills Workshops Facilitator and obtained a Faculty Teaching Certificate early in his full-time teaching career. 

Cameron has been involved with numerous Haskayne undergraduate and graduate case competition teams, including JDC West, The Engineering Commerce Case Competition, The Collegiate Ethics Case Competition, The John Molson MBA International Case Competition, RSM Star Case Competition, and The McDonough Business Strategy Challenge. In these competitions and others, he has coached 301 teams involving nearly 1,000 students over two decades. At these competitions, he and his teams have received 136 awards including podium finishes, finals, pool runner-ups, and semi-finals. Internationally, he has coached teams at 53 competitions, Those teams have achieved 21 top-three placings, 26 finals, 18 runners-up in preliminary cases, and 15 other awards. 

Cam’s research interests include environmental and social corporate performance reporting in resource-based and tourism organizations. He focuses on systems creation to support performance reporting and knowledge management in the environmental management field. His recent interests involve understanding the characteristics of high-performing student teams and case-solving. Cameron has published in The Journal of Sustainable Tourism and The Journal of Organizational Change Management. He and his co-author Irene Herrremans received the Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Theory Award at the 14th Annual Conference of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. 

Beyond academia and business, Cameron is the vice president and a director of the Crowsnest Forest Stewardship Society and has been a member of several Castle Special Places Working Groups. He was a council commissioner for the Chinook Council of Scouts Canada as a Senior Deputy Council Commissioner for Camps and Facilities, He currently sits on the advisory board of Innovatank and is a Founding Member of The World Case Committee Accreditation Program for Case Solving Education. 

In his spare time, he enjoys fly fishing, hiking, road and mountain biking, and photography.

Research

Areas of Research

Sustainability, Experiential Learning (Case-Solving and Critical Thinking Skills)

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
MGST 359.3 Selected Topics in Management (Business Case Studies) Fall 2024

Projects

International Case Teams at UCalgary and Haskayne

Building a strong training system and network of case competitions for Haskayne students to participate internationally and increase the reputation and brand of the Hakayne School of Business and the University of Calgary.

Awards

  • Writer's Award, The World Case Committee. 2024
  • M.H. (Mark Huber) Award, The World Case Committee. 2023
  • JDC West Faculty Advisor of the Year, JDC West. 2021
  • Faculty Member Superior Service Award, Haskayne Student Association and Commerce Undergraduate Society. 2018
  • JDC West Faculty Advisor of the Year, JDC West. 2018
  • Best Coach, Engineering Commerce Case Competition. 2017
  • Best Coach, Engineering Commerce Case Competition. 2016
  • Dean's Award for Outstanding Service Leadership, Haskayne School of Business. 2014
  • Faculty Member Superior Service Award, Commerce Undergraduate Society. 2013
  • JDC West Faculty Advisor of the Year, JDC West. 2012
  • Faculty Member Superior Service Award, Commerce Undergraduate Society. 2011
  • Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Theory, Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship . 1997

Publications

  • Developing and Implementing the Company's Eco-tourism Mission Statement: Treadsoftly Revisited. Cameron Welsh and Irene Herremans. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. (2001)
  • Developing and Implementing the Company's Ecotourism Mission Statement. Camreron Welsh and Irene M. Herremans. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. (1999)
  • How an Environmental Report Can Help a Company "Learn" About its Own Environmental Performance. Irene Herremans, Cameron Welsh, Robert D. Bott, and Dan Kane. Eco-management and Auditing. (1998)
  • Treadsoftly: Adopting Environmental Management in the Start-up Phase.. Cameron Welsh and Irene M. Herremans. The Journal of Organizational Change Management. (1998)
  • Business Driven Information Systems, 4th Canadian Edition. Paige Baltzan and Cameron Welsh . McGraw-Hill Ryerson. (2015)
  • Business Driven Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Edition. Paige Baltzan, Brian Detlor, and Cameron Welsh . McGraw-Hill Ryerson. (2012)
  • Treadsoftly – An Environmental Education Company Inc. – The Environment and the Business of Backcountry Tours, Part 1 Understanding Stakeholder Issues . Cameron Welsh. Cases in Sustainable Tourism an Experiential Approach to Decision Making. (2006)
  • Treadsoftly – An Environmental Education Company Inc. – The Environment and the Business of Backcountry Tours, Part 2 Creating Environmental Controls . Cameron Welsh and Robin E Reid. . Cases in Sustainable Tourism an Experiential Approach to Decision Making. (2006)
  • You’re One of The Best in the World at What You Do, and Now You Plan to Retire. Cameron Welsh. RMLE. 36. (2023)
  • The Role of Business Ethics Case Competitions: Questions and Answers. Areti T. Vogel, James R. Beasley, John Tichenor, Michelle Darnell, Paul Melendez, Cameron Welsh, Gretchen A. Winter. Society for Business Ethics. (2020)
  • The Ideal Team: Connecting Implicit Notions with Explicit Experiences. Kathy Lund Dean; Cameron Welsh; Kathi Lovelace; Sarah Wright. RMLE. 56. (2019)
  • Building High-Performance Student Teams.. Cameron Welsh. RMLE. 56. (2018)
  • Management Education Journals or Management Entertainment Journals?. Cameron Welsh; Brent R Snider. RMLE. 29. (2017)
  • Student Perceptions of an Introductory Blended Learning Business Course. Sherry Weaver and Cameron Welsh. COHERE. (2016)
  • Questions, Issues, and Concerns Surrounding Blended Learning. Cameron Welsh. RMLE Unconference. (2016)
  • Students in Transition: Preliminary Results of Our Study of Blended Learning and Student Engagement. Sherry Weaver and Cameron Welsh. Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. (2015)
  • Using a Flipped Classroom to Facilitate Guided Problem Based Learning . Sherry Weaver and Cameron Welsh. University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching. (2015)
  • Students in Transition: Collaborative Research Between Universities, Poster Presentation. Sherry Weaver, Cameron Welsh, and Wallace Lockhart. Symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. (2014)
  • Petrobras: Planning for the Future. Fernanda Lorenzetti Alves, HengXing Ma, Cameron Welsh, and Irene Herremans. ASAC. (2013)