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Garret Lane Cohee

Garrett Lane Cohee, D.B.A. 

Adjunct Professor of Management

Dr. Lane Cohee serves as a business management professor and independent project management contractor, with over 35 years of experience in business/academic leadership, project/program management, systems engineering, and academic instruction. He teaches, trains and consults in the fields of project management, organizational dynamics, business strategy, and operations/supply chain management. 

Cohee served as Associate Professor of Management at Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) from 2017-2024, following a 30-year career in the defense and aerospace industry. From 2020-2023, he served as Associate Dean and MBA Chair for PBA’s Marshall E. Rinker Sr. School of Business, successfully leading the school’s AACSB initial accreditation initiative; an accreditation achieved by only six percent of business schools internationally. 

During his final six years in industry, Cohee served as a program management executive at Harris Corporation. As general manager, he led a $175M per annum business unit, having responsibility for P&L, program/product management, strategic planning, business development, and client/supplier relations. In 2016-17, he also served as program management executive chair for a $2B business segment comprised of 200 program managers. 

Cohee joined Harris in 2004. Prior to transitioning to executive leadership, he held positions of increasing responsibility in systems engineering and project/program management. In these roles, he successfully led multiple large cross-functional teams, responsible for developing and producing space, airborne, and ground-based systems ranging from $30 to $130 million in value. 

He also possesses experience as a systems engineer, integrated product team (IPT) leader, and product acquisition manager for Titan-LinCom Corporation and the US Air Force. 

Cohee holds a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, MBA from the University of Redlands, Master of Engineering (M. Eng) from the University of Colorado, and Doctorate in Business Administration (D.B.A) from Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business. He also holds PMI-PMP®, ACP® and RMP® professional certifications.

Research & Articles

Cohee, G.L. & Barnhart, C.M | Organizational Dynamics, Volume 53, Issue 3, July–September 2024 

Leaders are often celebrated for quick and decisive actions. Such actions include the ability to cut through the chaff and make rapid decisions in fast-paced environments. However, while decisiveness is admirable, poor decision-making is not. And an increasing amount of research informs us that leaders tend to be far too overconfident about their decision-making ability. First, this article details several ways that leaders’unconscious cognitive biases can cloud their decision-making ability. These biases such as attribution bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the planning fallacy, and jumping to faulty conclusions are particularly dangerous because everyone is infected by them—yet, because of the bias blind spot, leaders tend to naturally believe they are immune. Second, this article details ways that leaders can “mistake proof” their decision-making process. By exercising activities like pre-mortems, speed-accuracy tradeoffs, reference class forecasting, and improving reflective capacity, leaders can impose systems and methods to help protect their decision-making against their greatest potential nemesis—themselves.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2023.101011

Cohee, G. L. (2023) | Journal of Education for Business, Online Apr 2023, 1-10

Accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) exemplifies a widely accepted commitment to business school differentiation both in terms of both value and quality. Business schools embarking on the initial accreditation journey must invest significant human and capital resources to achieve this goal. Given this, institutions should employ practices designed to optimize their potential for success. Well-established project management processes can do just that. This paper summarizes the scope of AACSB initial accreditation, reviews applicable project management development approaches, and summarizes the project management methods and artifacts most appropriate for each phase of the accreditation process.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08832323.2023.2191170

Cohee, G. L. (2022) | Organizational Dynamics, 51(3), 1-10.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2021.100884