Jennifer Griffith, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Morrison Faculty Fellow at the University of New Hampshire's Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. She is also director of the Modern Work Lab, Fellow at UNH's Prevention Innovations Research Center, Faculty Affiliate at Purdue University's Center for Working Well, and ForbesWomen contributor. She earned her PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology in 2013.
Her research, service, and advocacy explore how to create workplaces where everyone can cultivate a path to thriving. Core to this goal are her three primary research streams – assessment accuracy, talent cultivation, & organizational design. Her research lab, Modern Work Lab, recruits and mentors undergraduate students at UNH who are interested in translating this research stream into practical workplace solutions, including recommendations for selection and assessment systems, leadership development, & workplace training programs. Dr. Griffith’s research has been published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Human Resource Management Review, among other esteemed outlets. Her insights and expertise have been featured in popular press outlets, including ABC News, Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek, NPR, and Psychology Today as well as in organizational policy documents and case law.
Her scholarship has twice been awarded by her peers for excellence (2021 Paul College Research Excellence Award, 2023 Paul College Research Excellence in Business Analytics Award), and her outreach with and investment in the UNH community has perennially been recognized by UNH's Sustainability Institute (2021, 2022 UNH Sustainability Award; 2023 Campus & Community Engagement Award) as well as the UNH community more broadly (2021 UNH Outstanding Assistant Professor). In recognition of her impactful scholarship and advocacy work, Dr. Griffith was selected for inclusion in the 2024 AACSB International Influential Leader cohort, a distinction bestowed to faculty members "who are advancing new knowledge and creating impact in business and society through their research".
Outside of her current academic roles, she has served in numerous leadership positions on several externally funded grants and contracts from the NSF and the DoD and in two state agencies. She also regularly acts as an organizational consultant on matters within the scope of people analytics, leadership development, and workplace innovation.
