Dr. Ryan Baltrip
Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing · Executive Director, Loyalty Science Lab · Founder, Navigate AI
Executive leadership, digital learning, business education, and applied AI in one perspective.
Navigate AI was founded by Dr. Ryan Baltrip to help business schools move from scattered AI activity to a coherent capability and evidence strategy. The work draws on more than a decade of academic leadership, online and digital-learning strategy, faculty development, program design, teaching, assessment, and research.
The work connects institutional strategy with the classroom.
Business schools need more than tool expertise. They need someone who understands how academic strategy becomes curriculum, how faculty development becomes course change, and how assessment evidence becomes an improvement decision.
Ryan’s career has moved across those levels. He has led online and digital-learning strategy at multiple universities, served as a dean and business-program leader, supported faculty and program development, and now teaches and researches AI inside a business school.
Business-school faculty, research, and AI leadership
Clinical Assistant Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of the Loyalty Science Lab at Old Dominion University. His teaching includes AI in Business, Strategic AI Leadership, AI in Digital Marketing, marketing principles, and consumer behavior.
Dean, business chair, and program builder
As Dean of the College of Professional Studies and Chair of Business Administration at Carson-Newman University, Ryan led academic strategy, program redesign, enrollment growth, student success, and new market development.
Institution-level online and innovative learning strategy
He directed digital or online learning initiatives at Miami University, William & Mary, and Southern Seminary, where he built strategic plans, expanded academic programs, strengthened faculty support, and led high-performing teams.
Faculty development grounded in real course work
Across his leadership and faculty roles, Ryan has designed training, supported course and program development, and worked directly with the practical challenges of teaching, assessment, and student support in technology-rich environments.
Build capability that remains useful as the tools change.
Navigate AI keeps human judgment, student learning, and institutional evidence at the center of the work.
Help business schools develop responsible, discipline-embedded AI capability and credible evidence of learning.
The mission focuses on practical institutional progress. Students should know how to use AI with judgment. Faculty should have support for meaningful course change. Leadership should be able to see and document what the school is building.
Business graduates who use AI productively while retaining judgment, integrity, and accountability.
AI fluency should strengthen professional capability without weakening human responsibility. Graduates need to verify, explain, and stand behind the work they produce with AI support.
Navigate AI operates as an independent business.
References to Old Dominion University and the Strome College of Business describe Ryan Baltrip’s professional experience. They do not imply institutional endorsement of Navigate AI.
The same boundary applies to AACSB. Navigate AI aligns its work with relevant standards and quality expectations, while accreditation judgments remain with AACSB and its peer-review process.
Original research informs the methods used on this site. External institutional pilots, client outcomes, and third-party validation will be reported separately as that evidence develops.