Faculty/Staff
Llord Brooks
Assistant Professor
llord@usf.edu
Llord Brooks is an assistant professor in the School of Marketing and Innovation, associated with the Monica Wooden Center for Supply Chain Management & Sustainability and Supply Chain Innovation Lab. He teaches operations management, supply chain management, and global sourcing courses.
His research focuses on transformative supply chain management and people-centric, behavioral operations. He is particularly interested in how unique humanitarian and disaster-related operational characteristics influence organizational and relief worker behaviors, decision-making, and performance outcomes. In addition to humanitarian operations, his current research includes social sustainability and community well-being and the use of digital technologies in disruption management.
He earned his PhD in Supply Chain Management from Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Llord earned an MS in Global Logistics from Arizona State University and gained industry experience in the logistics and transportation field working as a Fleet Manager for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. in Southern California.
Teaching
- MAN 4504 - Operations and Supply Chain Management
- SCM 3144 - Global Sourcing
Research
His research focuses on transformative operations, specifically how the unique characteristics of humanitarian and social environments impact employee and community well-being in addition to critical operational outcomes.
- Brooks, L., Shaheen, I., Dobrzykowski, D. (2023). The influence of trauma on internal integration: An approach-avoidance analysis in disaster relief operations. Production and Operations Management, 32(12), 4135–4153.