Power in Crisis with Professor Deborah Gruenfeld

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Professor Deborah Gruenfeld is the Joseph McDonald Professor and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a social psychologist whose research and teaching examine how people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. A sought-after teacher in the field of organizational behavior, Professor Gruenfeld teaches in many of Stanford’s Executive Education programs. In the MBA program, she teaches required courses on teams and organizational behavior, and offers the elective “Acting with Power.”

Gruenfeld's research has been featured in many scholarly journals as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. Gruenfeld co-directs the Executive Program for Women Leaders at Stanford and sits on the boards of the LeanIn Foundation and Stanford's Center for the Advancement of Women's Leadership. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois.