---
id: "pisquared:interview/irwin-kris"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Kris Irwin"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/irwin-kris"
date: "2025-12-22"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Kris Irwin"]
summary: "Kris Irwin is Assistant Professor of Management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She describes herself as a pragmatist who seeks to solve..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1148683204"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Kris Irwin

Kris Irwin, Assistant Professor of Management, Old Dominion University · 22 December 2025

## About the guest

Kris Irwin is Assistant Professor of Management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She describes herself as a pragmatist who seeks to solve problems with direct real-world implications. Her interests include strategic direction and design, complex problem-solving, operational execution, and leadership development. She draws on both her career in management consulting and her academic training particularly to understand decisions about mergers and acquisitions. She’s interested in what she calls “the greater good” that executives can create with a consummate commitment to integrity and excellence.

## Related resources

- [Kris’s University profile](https://www.odu.edu/directory/kris-irwin)
- [Kris’s personal website](https://www.krisirwin.com/)
- [Kris’s paper on layers of marginalization](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02662426251351913)
- [Kris on women entrepreneurs](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691066.2023.2282542)
- [Kris’s paper on the motives for mergers and acquisitions](https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/management_fac_pubs/74/)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1148683204

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/irwin-kris · Licence: none stated