Dr. Charleata Battle is an Assistant Professor of Management and Healthcare Management at California State University, Los Angeles. She brings more than 26 years of cross-sector experience spanning healthcare, higher education, business, information technology, real estate, and entrepreneurship. A former neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patient, Dr. Battle maintains a deeply personal connection to healthcare that informs her commitment to advancing healthcare leadership, equity, and system effectiveness.
She is an author, researcher, and advocate for the use of data-driven decision-making and innovation to improve healthcare systems. Dr. Battle is the author of Indefinite Useful Life: Leadership Forged Without an Expiration Date, which explores leadership as an evolving practice shaped by lived experience, resilience, and identity. Her scholarship focuses on healthcare management, healthcare leadership, and medical entrepreneurship, including physician entrepreneurship and startup innovation. Her peer-reviewed publications include work on healthcare leadership, prenatal care disparities, societal impact in business education, and experiential learning in graduate health administration. She recently authored the article, Bridging Clinical and Entrepreneurial Intelligence: The Dual Acumen Model for Integrating Scientific Expertise and Innovation Strategy in Healthcare Leadership, and has multiple manuscripts under review in leading journals.
Dr. Battle is an active researcher and principal investigator on funded projects, including work evaluating competency-based education tools for healthcare administration curricula. In 2014, she founded Char Battle, Inc., where she advises small healthcare businesses and medical entrepreneurs on sustainable strategy, operations, and growth. At Cal State LA, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in healthcare strategy, leadership, and management, and has supervised more than 80 graduate capstone research projects. She also serves in leadership roles supporting graduate education, accreditation, student success, and shared governance.
Dr. Battle serves on the Board of Directors for the Georgia State University Alumni Association and holds leadership roles with the American College of Healthcare Executives Southern California Chapter (ACHE SoCal), where she serves as Chair of Academic Affairs. She is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the International Business Honor Society, and maintains active involvement in several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management, AUPHA, APHA, and the International Epidemiological Association. She contributes to the field as a journal and conference reviewer and was appointed as a 2025 Baldrige Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. Battle contributes to community and professional initiatives focused on health, innovation, and education. She holds a B.B.A., an MBA, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.