Jean Hawkins
Professor of Accounting
M.A., University of Central Missouri; CPA (Missouri), CMA; Ph.D., Anderson University

Dr. Hawkins was formerly with KPMG, LLP. She is the faculty advisor of Alpha Lambda Chapter of Delta Mu Delta, a national honor society in business and related areas. Dr. Hawkins is also a Sam Walton Fellow in the Students in Free Enterprise organization and is active in professional accounting organizations. Her primary areas of teaching include management accounting and research.

Don Huntington
Executive in Residence

Donald Huntington is an executive consultant and educator with 37 years experience in marketing, entrepreneurship, investment management and organization leadership. In addition to his role as Executive In Residence at William Jewell College, he currently serves as a consultant to clients in the invest­ment analytics and management field and on the Board of TMFS National, LLC, a holding company of independent investment advisory firm franchises. Over his multi-faceted career, Mr. Huntington has held executive and ownership positions in banking, marketing communications and invest­ment management firms. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist Univer­sity Cox School of Business in Dallas, Texas and is a certified eCRM practitioner.

Elizabeth R. Hoyt
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
M.B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor Hoyt has taught at William Jewell since 1981 and has been the founder of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. She specializes in the areas of business strategy and policy, entrepreneurship, and human resources issues. She has taught college courses in entrepreneurship, guided hundreds of students through simulated new business start-ups, and assisted individuals starting businesses. She has also had numerous campus leadership positions including the chair of both the Faculty Development Committee and the Director of the Writing Fellows Program. Professor Hoyt has also served as the director on several volunteer organizations and wrote the book, How to Start a Business in Kansas City. Prior to her faculty position at William Jewell, she held positions in private industry as a business consultant with Arthur Andersen and Co. and in the human resource field.

Cory Scheer
Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Business
M.B.A. Rockhurst University

Cory Scheer joined the William Jewell College faculty in January 2012. Prior to William Jewell, Cory worked for the YMCA of Greater Kansas City as the vice president of strategic partnerships and as the executive director of the Paul Henson Family YMCA. Cory worked closely with private, community and nonprofit organizations to develop programs of impact for the YMCA including the 2nd Grade Learn to Swim Program, BlueCross BlueShield Healthy Families Program, LIVESTRONG at the YMCA Cancer Survivorship Program and Activate America. Prior to his time at the YMCA, Cory spent eight years as the business manager, director of marketing and River Program director for Noah’s Ark Whitewater Rafting Co. and Adventure Program, serving 30,000 clients annually. Cory is an active volunteer for several nonprofit organizations in the community. He enjoys working with students both in the classroom and as an advocate for campus student organizations at William Jewell to prepare them for leadership and significant impact.

Kelli Schutte
Chair of the Department
Associate Professor of Business
M.B.A. Western Michigan University; Ph.D. Michigan State University

Dr. Schutte is a professor of Management, Human Resources and Organizational Behavior. Her dissertation topic focused on organizational culture from a human resource perspective with an emphasis on work/life initiative effectiveness. She has been a contributor to numerous publications including the Sloan Work/Family encyclopedia, Journal of Christian Higher Education, The Cooperative Education and Internship Journal and the Human Resource Planning Society Journal. She recently published a book entitled Academic Women at Home and at Work. Dr. Schutte has also been a regular presenter at work/life and applied learning conferences as well as an active consultant in the area of organizational culture, policy development and employment law. Her research interests lie in the areas of work/life culture, policy development, employment law and experiential education. Dr. Schutte has particularly enjoyed working with students on projects involving micro-enterprise, global economics, and sponsoring student presentations within the community and at national conferences.

J. Gregg Whittaker
Professor of Economics and Business
M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Whittaker has primary teaching duties in the areas of finance and economics. He is also the founder of The Whittaker Group LLC, a business advisory organization specializing in capital raising, business development and value creation for start-up companies. The Whittaker Group assisted in the development and equity funding of a $1 billion financial services company in New York as well as an innovative insurance company in the Cayman Islands. The group is currently involved in launching companies in the high-tech, media and agriculture industries. Prior to joining the Jewell faculty in 1999, Dr. Whittaker worked on Wall Street for 10 years, the last five as a Managing Director and the Global Head of Credit Derivatives for Chase Securities, Inc. (now JPMorganChase). He is also co-founder and the former Vice Chairman of Primus Guaranty, Ltd., a NYSE-traded firm. Dr. Whittaker is currently on the boards of the Liberty Hospital Foundation and Pony Express Bank.