Irena Nikolovska, Ph.D is a Visiting Professor at the UACS School of Business Economics and Management. She completed her PhD in Leadership and Education with specialization in Human Resource Development at Barry University, USA, MS in Mass Communications at Florida International University, USA, MBA at Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, Greece, and BBA in International Business at Universiy of Central Oklahoma, USA. She has over 10 years of corporate experience in diverse industries such as the financial, retail, and manufactoring industry, and over 6 years of graduate and undergraduate teaching and research experience in higher education in Macedonia and in USA. She is a published researcher in academic Journals and her research interests are in the areas of talent development, conflict management, diversity in organizations, cultural issues in organizations, and performance improvement.