Joshua Ehrig

Joshua Ehrig is a Teaching Full Professor in the Department of Management at Lehigh University, where he teaches strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture development across undergraduate, graduate, executive, and corporate education programs. He was promoted in 2026 to Teaching Full Professor, the university’s highest-ranking non-tenure-track faculty appointment, in recognition of sustained excellence in teaching, program leadership, and applied impact. Widely recognized for excellence in the classroom, he has received six MBA Teaching Excellence Awards and the College of Business Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award.

Professor Ehrig's work sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and organizational transformation. In addition to teaching, he serves as an advisor and consultant to corporate partners, designing and delivering custom innovation, growth, and leadership development initiatives. His programs have helped organizations build innovation capabilities, identify new growth opportunities, and translate strategy into execution. Most notably, he developed and led a multi-cohort corporate innovation program recognized by executive leadership as the first faculty-led initiative of its kind within the organization.

Throughout his career, Professor Ehrig has focused on helping individuals and organizations transform ideas into impactful ventures, innovations, and growth opportunities. He has designed and led original courses, venture-development initiatives, and experiential learning programs that connect undergraduate and MBA students, PhD researchers, entrepreneurs, and executives with real-world strategic and innovation challenges. His work emphasizes the application of entrepreneurial thinking, business model innovation, and evidence-based decision-making to create measurable outcomes.

Before joining academia, Professor Ehrig co-founded and led multiple technology ventures, guiding them from early-stage development through growth and successful exits. Drawing on a career that spans entrepreneurship, strategy, consulting, and executive education, he brings a distinctive blend of analytical rigor and practical execution to teaching, advising, and organizational leadership.

Professor Ehrig holds multiple graduate degrees from Lehigh University and has completed executive education and professional development programs at MIT, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.