Cameron Conaway is a Teaching Faculty of Management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University, having joined Penn State in July 2025. He teaches MBA and undergraduate courses on ethical leadership, business ethics, and the role of social responsibility and environmental sustainability in business.

Before joining Smeal, Conaway spent 15 years balancing work as an educator, marketing leader, and international journalist. As an educator, he most recently taught talent management in the Enterprise MBA program at the University of San Francisco’s Masagung Graduate School of Management. As a marketing leader, he served as Head of Marketing at Cisco Networking Academy—one of the world’s largest and longest-running corporate social responsibility education programs. His journalism on global health and human rights has appeared in Newsweek, The Guardian, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, among other outlets, and earned him the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Fellowship, awarded annually to one journalist.

Conaway has also published widely in business-related practitioner literature, with work appearing in Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Harvard Business Impact Education, where he delivered a webinar on feedback literacy to over 2,000 management professionals.

His current research centers on workplace feedback and its roles in driving innovation, enabling psychologically safe speak-up cultures, and shaping what he defines as employee feedback literacy.

Education

Executive MBA, University of San Francisco, 2020

MFA, Poetry (Creative Nonfiction), University of Arizona, 2009

BA, Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania State University, 2007

BA, English, Pennsylvania State University, 2007