May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Courses taught:
• ✪ MGT 2081 - Professional Communication Skills
• ✪ MGT 3850B - Problem Identification and Definition
• ✪ MGT 3850C - Curiosity and Creativity
• ✪ MGT 3850D - Disruption or Distraction
• ✪ MKTG 2020 - Marketing

Jun 2021 – Feb 2022 · 8 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dec 2020 – Mar 2021 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Prepare SmartBook Adaptation to accompany the textbook by Peter W. Cardon and Julie Stevens, Business Communication: Developing Leaders for a Networked World, 1st ed. (Toronto, ON: McGraw Hill, 2021; Print ISBN 978-1260326970; eText ISBN 978-1260889734).

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Began conceptualizing and drafting Business Communication Decoded in Fall 2020, drawing on my experience teaching 65+ sections of business communication to over 2,000 students and advising organizations from startups to multinationals.
• Forthcoming Fall 2025 from Kendall Hunt, this book offers a classroom-tested and workplace-ready playbook for writing, presenting, and communicating effectively — blending proven strategies, real projects, and AI-integrated techniques.
• Hans, K. (2025). Business Communication Decoded: Better Words at Work — Strategies, Models, and AI Prompts. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing. ISBN: 979-8-3851-2246-2

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Olds, Alberta, Canada

• AgTech Instructor at the Werklund School for Agriculture Technology.
• Taught in the Agriculture Technology Integration Post-Diploma Certificate:
• ✪ ATI 3002 - Design Thinking in Agriculture Technology (Fall 2020)
• ✪ ATI 3006 - Project Management for Sustainable Systems (Fall 2020 & 2021)
• Co-taught in the Diploma in Precision Agriculture - Techgronomy program:
• ✪ ATG 1010 - Preparation for Techgronomist Internship (Winter 2021)
• Taught in the Agriculture Technology Integration Post-Diploma Certificate:
• ✪ ATI 3002 - Design Thinking in Agriculture Technology (Fall 2021)

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Examining 📲 Unpacking the future: Technology, productivity, and beyond.
• https://www.examining.ca/

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• After guest lecturing and advising in UNIV 201 - Global Challenges, had the opportunity to teach the UNIV 201 course at the College of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation (CDCI), Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary.

Nov 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Entrepreneurs, like military leaders, know that you often have to lose a lot of battles on the way to winning a war. So why do we always end up talking about the goals, the accomplishments, the victories, rather than the scary stuff? What about the traumas that stay with you long after you’ve left the calamity of the daily business battlefield?
• Join us for ‘War Stories’, where business founders, co-founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have learned that what makes us successful comes more often from our hardships than our victories, and that these are the stories that are actually worth sharing.
• Subscribe to our YouTube channel or tune in on your podcast platform of choice ➤ https://www.warstories.ca

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Courses taught:
• ✪ ENTI 401 - Opportunity Identification
• ✪ ENTI 407 - Technology for Entrepreneurs
• ✪ ENTI 674 - Technologies of Innovation
• ✪ MKTG 601 - Marketing Management
• ✪ MKTG 663 - New Venture Marketing
• https://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/
• https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/kris-hans
• https://medium.com/opportunityidentification
• https://medium.com/technologyforentrepreneurs
• https://medium.com/technologiesofinnovation

Dec 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Served as W21C‘s inaugural Entrepreneur in Residence at the O’Brien Institute of Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. During this time, aided in strengthening partnerships with a variety of stakeholders within the university and the innovation ecosystem locally in Calgary as well as provincially and across Canada. Also worked behind the scenes to identify diversified revenue streams for W21C, provided strategic business advice and mentorship to many of our industry partners, as well as to competitors in the W21C Innovation Academy and the Global Healthcare Innovation Academy (GHIA).

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 4 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• Courses taught:
• ✪ BMC 161 - Strategic Planning
• ✪ BMC 171 - Economics for Business
• ✪ BMC 205 - Business Management
• ✪ BMC 294 - Strategic Selling
• ✪ BMC 373 - Marketing and Sales for Entrepreneurs
• ✪ BMC 377 - Design Thinking
• ✪ BUS 643 - Leadership Practices: Navigating in Uncertainty
• ✪ COR 621- Introduction to Product Management and Product Leadership
• ✪ COR 628 - Design Thinking
• ✪ ENTI 401 - Opportunity Identification
• ✪ ENTI 407 - Technology for Entrepreneurs
• ✪ ENTI 674 - Technologies of Innovation
• ✪ MKTG 601 - Marketing Management
• ✪ MKTG 663 - New Venture Marketing
• ✪ UNIV 201 - Global Challenges

Jan 2009 – Present · 17 yrs 4 mos

• Market Grade is an interdisciplinary consultancy bringing together a resource of visual designers, strategists, architects, social group thinkers, writers and artists.
• http://www.marketgrade.com

Jan 2005 – Present · 21 yrs 4 mos · Calgary, Canada Area

• Currently scheduled to teach MGMT 3210 - Business Communication Theory and Practice at the Bissett School of Business
• Courses taught:
• ✪ ENTR 1232 - Entrepreneurship Studies
• ✪ ENTR 2010 - Directed Field Studies
• ✪ ENTR 3010 - Directed Field Studies II
• ✪ INFO 2670 - Tools for Information Designers
• ✪ MGMT 2130 - Management Principles and Practices
• ✪ MGMT 2275 - Creativity in the Workplace
• ✪ MGMT 3210 - Business Communication Theory and Practice
• ✪ MKTG 2154 - Professional Selling
• ✪ PUBR 3851 - Computer-Mediated Communication
• https://business.mtroyal.ca
• https://medium.com/creativityintheworkplace
• https://medium.com/toolsforinformationdesigners

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

Jan 1998 – Jan 2001 · 3 yrs

Jan 2003 – Present · 23 yrs 4 mos

• Select clientele:
• Alberta Treasury Branch (ATB)
• Asian Heritage Foundation
• Blink Restaurant
• Calgary Artwalk
• Calroc Industries
• Conexus Credit Union
• Corlac Resources
• Cultivator
• Fano Energy
• Getty Images
• iStock Photo
• Konzuk
• Light up the World Foundation
• Lime
• Lululemon
• Nokia
• Olds College
• University of Calgary
• The Cult

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr