Cameron Conaway

Cameron Conaway is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Masagung Graduate School of Management, where he teaches talent management in the Enterprise MBA program.

As a researcher, he is exploring workplace feedback—investigating its role in fostering innovation and examining how employees develop what he calls “employee feedback literacy.”

Conaway's work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, NPR, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Washington Post, World Economic Forum, Newsweek, Forbes, and The Guardian, among other publications.

• Workplace feedback
• Ethical leadership
• Business ethics
• Talent management
• Organizational behavior

• Employee feedback literacy
• The role of feedback on innovation
• Management education

• University of San Francisco, Executive MBA, 2020
• University of Arizona, MFA in Creative Writing, 2009
• Penn State Altoona, BA in Criminal Justice and English, 2007

• Head of Growth Marketing, Cisco Networking Academy
• Head of Content Marketing, Webex by Cisco
• Poet-in-Residence, University of Arizona
• Adjunct Professor, Penn State University
• Poet-in-Residence, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

• University of San Francisco Executive MBA Excellence in Scholarship Award (2020)

• Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Fellow (2016)

• Grant Recipient, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (2015)

• Grant Recipient, International Reporting Project (2015)

• Richard Russo Award for Literary Criticism (2006, 2007)

• Conaway, C. (2024, June). To Develop Career-Ready Graduates, Make Sure They’re Fluent in Feedback. Harvard Business Publishing Education.
• Conaway, C. (2024, February). Reap the Benefits of Case Teaching—Without All the Prep. Harvard Business Publishing Education.
• Conaway, C. (2023, May). Never Taught with a Simulation? Start Here. Harvard Business Publishing Education.
• Conaway, C. (2022, June). The Right Way to Process Feedback. Harvard Business Review.