MIT Leadership Center
MIT Leadership Center Faculty
Meet Our Faculty

Bridget Scott Akinc
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer
Bridget Scott Akinc believes in local engagement and systems change to strengthen communities. Passionate about innovation and finding new ways to work toward solving complex social challenges, Bridget led Building Impact for seven years to March…
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Deborah L. Ancona
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has…
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Lotte Bailyn
T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita
Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For the period 1997-99 she was Chair of the MIT faculty, and during 1995-97 she was the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor…
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Senior Lecturer, Leadership Center
Lou is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, co-teaching Teams Lab and one of the ID Lab sections. Lou is the founder of Edgework Consulting (2001), a facilitation and training firm focused on the interpersonal side of organizations. Edgework specializes…
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Kara Blackburn
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Kara Blackburn is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an affiliate of MIT Sloan's Leadership Center. At MIT, Blackburn co-created and teaches Leading the Way: Perspectives on Advancing Equity and…
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John S. Carroll
Hear name pronounced.Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management, Emeritus
John Carroll is the Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was also Professor of Engineering Systems until 2015 and served as Co…
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Emilio J. Castilla
NTU Professor of Management
Emilio J. Castilla is the NTU Professor of Management and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Castilla is currently the co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research. He joined the MIT…
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Court Chilton
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Court Chilton is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has helped large organizations produce business results from learning, coaching, and enterprise-wide change efforts for the last 20 years. His clients have included GE…
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Jared R. Curhan
Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management
Jared Curhan is the Gordon Kaufman Professor and a Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as Faculty Director of MIT’s Behavioral Research Lab.Curhan specializes in the psychology of negotiation and…
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Roberto Fernandez
William F. Pounds Professor in Management
Roberto M. Fernandez is currently the William F. Pounds Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has over 35 years teaching experience at numerous universities, including six years as a Full Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate…
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Jay Forrester
Professor Emeritus of Management in System Dynamics
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Daena Giardella
Senior Lecturer, MIT Leadership Center
Daena Giardella is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Faculty Affiliate of the MIT Leadership Center.She has been an organizational leadership consultant and executive coach as well as a media, communication, and…
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Renee Richardson Gosline
Research Scientist
Renée Richardson Gosline is a Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and head of the Human-First AI group at MIT's Initiative on The Digital Economy. She is an expert on the intersection between behavioral…
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Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Hal Gregersen is a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, a fellow at Innosight, and a cofounder of the Innovator’s DNA consulting group. He has…
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Leigh Hafrey
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Communication and Ethics
Leigh Hafrey is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Since 1991, Hafrey has worked in professional ethics, with a focus on ethical leadership, teaching courses at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan, and consulting with…
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Neal Hartman
Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Neal Hartman is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His teaching of management communication and intercultural communication emphasizes working in teams, conflict and conflict resolution,…
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Virginia Healy-Tangney
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Virginia Healy-Tangney is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an affiliate of the MIT Leadership Center.Healy-Tangney teaches Communication for Leaders and also Advanced Leadership Communication,…
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Kate W. Isaacs
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer
Kate Isaacs is a scholar, teacher, and strategy advisor who designs organizations and stakeholder partnerships for people and places to thrive. She draws on design thinking, system dynamics, and developmental psychology to help leaders create…
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Kate Kellogg
Hear name pronounced.David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
Kate Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation, a Professor of Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Kate's research focuses on helping knowledge workers and organizations develop and implement…
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Christine Kelly
Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Christine Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Kelly teaches management communication, communication as advocacy in workplace relationships, and organizational communication. She…
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Erin Kelly
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Kelly’s research has been published in many top…
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Thomas Kochan
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus
Thomas A. Kochan is the Post-Tenure George Maverick Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research.Kochan focuses on the need to update America's work and employment…
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Thomas W. Malone
Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. At MIT, he is also a Professor of Information Technology and a…
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Makeeba McCreary
President of the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund
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Wanda Orlikowski
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management
Wanda Orlikowski is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technology and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from New York University. Her research examines technologies in the workplace, with a…
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Ray Reagans
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ray Reagans is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management in the Work and Organization Studies Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.His research focuses on a set of related questions, including how demographic characteristics such as age,…
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Nelson P. Repenning
Faculty Director
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Otto Scharmer
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging…
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Edgar Schein
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus
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John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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Donald Sull
Professor of the Practice
Donald Sull is a Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he directs the Strategic Agility Project and the Culture 500. He teaches courses on competitive strategy and strategy execution. Prior to academia, he worked as…
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Zeynep Ton
Professor of the Practice, Operations Management
Zeynep Ton is a Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Zeynep's research focuses on how organizations can design and manage their operations in a way that satisfies employees, customers, and investors simultaneously. Her…
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John Van Maanen
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management Emeritus
John Van Maanen is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor of Organization Studies, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.He works within the fields of organization behavior and theory. Van Maanen is an…
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JoAnne Yates
Hear name pronounced.Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita
JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies and Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Yates developed MIT Sloan's Managerial…
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