Home About Contact Speaking Writing     Training     Teaching     Workplace     Workplace2     Advertising     Counseling     Gelotophobia     Humor Ethics	Jim Lyttle Area of Interest Interdisciplinary research on the effective and responsible use of humor ... especially when used to change minds as in advertising, politics, training, or counseling. Biographical Sketch Jim Lyttle holds a Ph.D. from the Schulich School of Business at York University and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.  Since 2001, he has served full-time on the faculty of MBA programs at American universities such as Penn State. He is a scholar of humor and a member of the International Society for Humor Studies.  His research and analysis have been cited in books, graduate theses, conference papers, and academic journals.  He teaches graduate level management courses that overlap with the liberal arts and delivers private sector courses that help professionals use humor in their practices. Before coming to America, he traveled across Canada as a musical arranger and leader of his own show band.  Then, he worked in sales administration at Electrohome Electronics in Kitchener.  He is a life member of Mensa, an executive of the Clan Little Society, North America, and the editor of its publication The Reiver.