A career built between boardrooms, classrooms, systems, and ideas.

Aaron Stewart’s work has always lived between practical systems and larger questions. He began in international business, moved through entrepreneurship and software, built tools for operational and marketing problems, and later brought that field experience into university teaching and research.

That path now shapes his current focus: the strategic implementation of artificial intelligence systems. For Stewart, AI is not simply a toolset or a software category. It is a test of how well organizations can learn, redesign work, build trust, and convert new capability into changed practice.

His perspective is practitioner-scholar by design. Field problems discipline the research questions. Research disciplines the field decisions. Teaching becomes the bridge between the two.

Stewart is an Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University in the Department of Technology Management and Mechatronics. His teaching includes technology management, creative problem solving, project management, organizational information technologies, product management, people and culture, and strategic implementation of AI systems.

His academic preparation includes a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University, an MA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, and a BS in Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

His current teaching and research interests center on AI adoption, organizational learning, technology strategy, entrepreneurship education, and the practical design of learning experiences that change behavior rather than simply deliver content.