Kathleen M. Hargiss, Ph.D., MBA

Presently Dr. Hargiss is the Associate Dean at FMU-Pinellas campus in Clearwater, Florida. She is currently working on the FMU Graduate Research Grant with a completion date of April, 2003.

Dr. Hargiss is formerly affiliated with Strategic Resource Consulting (SRC). SRC is a Tampa, Florida-based enterprise that provides consulting services to start up, emerging and established firms in a variety of sectors with a concentration in biotechnology, medical device, information technology, and e-business. The firm also engages in providing business and organizational assessments to venture capital firms and accredited investors as a basis for investment consideration. Prior to her affiliation with SRC, Dr. Hargiss was a professor at both the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa. At USF she taught several health and wellness related courses through the University’s department of Physical Education, Wellness, Sport Studies and the department of Adult Education and Human Resource Development. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tampa, teaching a course in wellness industry dynamics. Her instructional expertise includes the design and implementation of courses for Wellness, Exercise Science, and Management degree programs encompassing communications, personality identifiers, learning styles, programming, and adult education principles.

Dr. Hargiss was the former director of an exclusive health spa in Houston, Texas. Responsibilities included management of a staff of twenty fitness and facility employees, advertising and public relations, accounting, budgets, marketing plans and forecasts, supervision of housekeeping and food preparation, and the design of fitness programs which included aerobic, weight training, stretching, and aquatics. She designed and conducted one-day spa programs, generating a new source of revenues while maximizing utilization of the physical plant.

Dr. Hargiss received a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, an MBA from the University of Miami (FL) with a specialization in International Business. Kathleen also earned a private pilot license, EMT license, and a 2nd degree Black belt with national weapon awards in the martial arts.