| Laurence B. Mussio | |
| Birth Name: | Laurence Basilio Mussio |
| Birth Date: | 15 December 1964[1] |
| Birth Place: | Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma Mater: | Università del Sacro Cuore di Milano Università degli Studi di Udine King's College, University of Western Ontario McMaster University York University |
| Occupation: | Author, historian, consultant |
| Website: | http://www.drlaurencebmussio.com/ |
Laurence B. Mussio (born December 15, 1964) is a Canadian business historian, author, professor, management consultant and special advisor to senior executives, best known for his publications in finance, communications, political economy and reputation management.[2]
Mussio was born and grew up in Sarnia, Ontario. He studied at Università del Sacro Cuore di Milano and the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, while earning degrees from King's College, University of Western Ontario, then McMaster University and York University. He specialized in history, working under H.V. Nelles, FRSC at York University, where he earned his doctorate.[3] Mussio established himself as a senior business historian and author after publishing works on various aspects of Canadian and international business history and communications, principally with the McGill-Queen's University Press (MQUP). His primary field is economic and business history in the long-run experience of financial institutions. A major work in that field will appear in April 2020 with the MQUP release of Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance.Vol I: A Dominion of Capital, 1817–1945; Vol II: Territories of Transformation, 1946–2017.[4]
Occasionally, Mussio has contributed to entirely different fields. In 2013, he translated the wartime diaries of a senior Vatican cardinal from the Italian, written in that tumultuous period between 1938 and 1947. In 2019, Mussio translated a second volume from the Italian examining other aspects of the cardinal's life. Mussio is the founder of Signal Influence Executive Research and Communications Inc,[5] a communication and consulting company based in Toronto and MLEK Consultants & Strategic Advisors,[6] a training and development firm. In 2011, Mussio was named to Canada's Who's Who.[7]
As an academic, Mussio has taught post-graduate courses at McMaster University, Hamilton (Master of Communications Management program), Syracuse University, NY (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications) and York University, Toronto (Schulich School of Business MBA).[8] At McMaster University, he designed and led undergraduate courses in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia and both taught and coordinated graduate theses in the Master of Communications Management (MCM) Program. In 2015, Mussio was awarded the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Teaching Excellence.[9]
In addition to his teaching and consultancy schedule, Mussio has been engaged in a multi-year research and publication project examining two hundred years of the Bank of Montreal. In 2016, McGill-Queen's University Press published his popular history of BMO entitled; A Vision Greater Than Themselves: The Making of the Bank of Montreal, 1817–2017.[10] The bank subsequently sent Mussio on a speaking tour of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom related to the bank's bicentenary. The popular history was followed by a work of independent scholarship to be released in April 2020 called Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance [Vol I: A Dominion of Capital, 1817–1945; Vol II: Territories of Transformation, 1946–2017''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Whom Fortune Favours: The Bank of Montreal and the Rise of North American Finance|isbn=978-0228000686|last1=Mussio|first1=Laurence B.|year=2020}}</ref> The work will also be available in French: ''À Qui La Fortune Sourit: La Banque de Montréal Et l'essor financier de l'Amérique Du Nord''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Qui La Fortune Sourit: La Banque de Montréal Et l'Essor Financier de l'Amérique Du Nord Relié – 16 avril 2020|id={{ASIN|022800070X|country=fr}}}}</ref> In October 2018, Mussio co-founded the Long Run Initiative, or LRI<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://longruninitiative.com/|title=Home|last=lri_admin|website=The Long Run Initiative|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25}}</ref> with Professor John Turner and Dr. Michael Aldous of [[Queen's University Belfast]]. The LRI brings together academics, business leaders and policy makers to facilitate a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges and trends through the analysis of historical records. Its governors include William A. Downe, The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch, Professor Geoff Jones of Harvard University, and David Walmsley, editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail.