Kimberly Bynum, DBA
Professional Profile
Professor Bynum received a DBA (Doctorate of Business Administration) with a concentration in Economics from Jacksonville University, an MBA, also from Jacksonville University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Florida A&M University. In addition to her academic service, Dr. Bynum maintains an active real estate license in the State of Florida and owns her own business consulting firm, KBynum Consulting. Before beginning her career in academia, Dr. Kim Bynum retired from the United States Navy after 21 years of service.
Teaching
Courses (Past & Present):
- Strategic Management
- International Business
- Operations Management
- Consumer Behavior
- International Marketing
- Organizational Behavior
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Digital Marketing
- Introduction to Business
Research
Recent Journal Publications:
Bynum, K. D., & Gillis, W. T. (2026). Teaching with S2SCC-AI: A practical framework for sport management classrooms. The COSMA Journal, 3(1), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.25035/cosma.03.01.07
Gillis, W. T., Bynum, K., & Kulp, A. (2025). Student-to-faculty connectedness as a dominant predictor of first-year student satisfaction: A post-pandemic services marketing perspective. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v25i4.7840
Bynum, K., & Gillis, W. T. (2025). Adapting Service-Dominant Logic (SDL) to Higher Education Pedagogy: A Theory-Based Framework for Student-to-Student Co-Creation (S2SCC). Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 25(5). https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v25i5.7931