Kristy Plander

Kristy Plander

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

MBA Associate Program Director

Profile

Kristy Plander was the director of marketing and communication at Concordia from 2006 to 2009. She joined Concordia's business department as a faculty member in 2009 and served as an adjunct faculty member in 2007. Her teaching emphasis is marketing. She is also an associate program director in the College of Graduate Studies for the Master of Business Administration program. Prior to Concordia she worked in financial services and health care.

Education

MBA University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.A. Concordia University, Nebraska

Courses taught

Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Business Ethics

Other

Plander is pursuing her Ph.D. in business administration from Northcentral University. She also serves as the financial director of the Lancaster County Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. In graduate school, she spent a semester abroad at Senshu University in Japan. As an undergraduate student, she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate in Business (2000) by Concordia.