William D. Reisel, Ph.D.

Dr. William Reisel is a full professor of management at the Tobin College of Business and is the management department’s assistant chairperson. He began working for St. John’s in 1998 after receiving a Ph.D. in management and strategy from the City University of New York. Dr. Reisel is a world-recognized scholar on employee job insecurity, attitudes, and strategy. He has over 75 scholarly publications and conference presentations during his career with more than 3,150 scholarly citations to his credit. Dr. Reisel is a passionate teacher who uses Academic Service-Learning with his students. His work received the 2018 Presidential Academic Service-Learning Award. In 2017, Dean Norean Sharpe appointed Dr. Reisel the Tobin Director of Accreditation and he led the successful AACSB Business Re-accreditation Report effort beginning in May of 2018 and he is the lead author of the AACSB 2024 Tobin Business CIR. Among his other roles, Dr. Reisel serves as a member of the consulting faculty in the EIRP program and works the Vincentian Fellows and presented a talk in April 2019 entitled “The Mission of Difference Makers.” Dr. Reisel directs a nationally recognized college readiness program, Difference Makers, at nine high schools on Staten Island that supports student credentials for college applications based on service-driven partnerships with not-for-profits in New York City. Multiple prestigious institutions have supported Difference Makers including the NY DOE funding and support from five private foundations: Staten Island Foundation, Richmond Savings Foundation, the Northfield Bank Foundation, Con Edison, and National Grid. Dr. Reisel was recognized by his colleagues with the Tobin College Beta Gamma Sigma “Professor of the Year Award” in 2019 and the Beta Alpha Psi “Professor of the Year Award” in 2018. Dr. Reisel also received the University's Service and Leadership Award in 2023.Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Academic Service-Learning, Small Business Management, Organizational Behavior, Management Information Systems.Attitudes in organizations as they relate to performance including job insecurity, commitment, trust, alienation, job satisfaction. Academic Service-Learning and entrepreneurship are further research interests.

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