Megatrends: The Transformative Forces Reshaping the United States

Jake Aguas

Jake Aguas is a GenExpert and Associate Professor of Management at the Crowell School of Business at Biola University and a Clinical Adjunct Professor of Management at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, where he teaches management, leadership, human resources, and entrepreneurship at the MBA and undergraduate levels. Jake has co-led international study tours to Beijing and Shanghai, China, and Hong Kong, instructing on culture, behavior, and economics in modern China, and has taught at the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling at Concordia University. He has worked on philanthropic projects in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Central America.

Jake is an organizational consultant and practices internationally, helping leaders build stronger organizations through their people and processes. He specializes in leadership strategy, team building, training and development, coaching, and the design and implementation of global human resource management functions.

Jake has held leadership positions with Fortune 100 companies in financial services as well as in the market research industry with one of the country’s top polling firms. He was a leader in the retail bank division of JPMorgan Chase for 15 years, notably serving as its Human Resource Manager for Talent Acquisition for the Western United States. In addition to authoring publications for research and professional journals, he regularly speaks on leadership, generational differences, emotional and cultural intelligence, and entrepreneurship.

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Jake studied under Nobel prize laureate Lloyd Shapley and economists William Allen, Armen Alchian, and George Hilton, which shaped and influenced his economic and entrepreneurial approaches to management. Jake is bilingual in Spanish and English and pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. He holds a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Biola University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from UCLA.

Jake is the author of numerous professional and research journal articles, including “Generation Z: The Rise of a New Generation,” “The American Working Woman: A Century in Review,” “Generation Z and the Mental Health Crisis,” and “A Pathway Towards Cultural Intelligence.” In addition to Megatrends: The Transformative Forces Reshaping the United States, Jake is co-authoring Generation Z and Year One of the COVID-19 Global Crisis, forthcoming from Kendall-Hunt Publishing.