Professor Livengood, a.k.a. the Seinfeld Sensei, earned his PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Maryland and his Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He worked at KPMG (Honolulu & San Francisco offices) and Honeywell International (Phoenix & Morristown offices) along the way, but his true passion lies in education.

He is the lead author of That’s Our Turf! Identity Domains and Competitive Dynamics with Rhonda Reger (published in the Academy of Management Review , his field’s top theoretical outlet) and has been an award-winning teacher ("sensei" in Japanese) of strategy and entrepreneurship at numerous universities throughout the United States and to groups around the world.

An Ironman, lover of music, movies, and sports, avid traveler, and curious explorer of the world around him, he is also fluent in Japanese and Seinlanguage.