Joanne Tritsch

BA, University of Pennsylvania; MBA, New York University; MBA (WE Deming Scholar), Fordham University; DM, University of Maryland 

Dr. Jo Tritsch is an assistant professor of business, co-administrator of the joint MBA/MHA program, and the director of the MBA program for Mary Baldwin University, where she teaches and advises students in MBU’s online undergraduate and graduate online programs.

She teaches courses in business sustainability, research methods, marketing principles and communications, statistics, transformational change, and the MBA program’s capstone courses.  She joined the MBU faculty in 2014.

Tritsch’s executive and research experience includes sixteen years as Strategic National Stockpile Coordinator for the New Jersey Department of Health, Director of Program Planning and Workplace Redesign for a large home healthcare agency in the northeast, and Director of Business Process Improvement for a progressive nutraceutical company on the west coast. She has also worked extensively in trade publications and financial public relations.  Tritsch started her work life as a prep and grill cook at McDonald’s.

She has extensive online teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate level for Capella University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Phoenix, where she also served as a Certified Advanced Facilitator responsible for program design, faculty development, and student support. 

She holds a DM in Management from the University of Maryland, an MBA from Fordham University as a member of the inaugural W. Edwards Deming Scholars Program, an MBA in Marketing from New York University and a BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.  She holds several certificates in public health preparedness, emergency response management and public health emergency communications.