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Overview

  • Vanessa is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. She is an internationally recognized leadership and team performance expert who advises leaders and teams in some of the world's most respected Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 organizations. Vanessa’s thirty-year research career examining differences between team cultures (i.e., social norms and routines) in high-performing and average-performing work teams led her to pioneer the concept of team emotional intelligence. She has published award-winning research articles in her field's top academic and practitioner journals and serves on the executive board of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. Her popular Harvard Business Review article (with S. Wolff) on emotionally intelligent teams has been reprinted four times in collections of HBR’s most valued articles. A multi-award-winning teacher, she spent eight years on the faculty of the Department of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University before moving to the University of New Hampshire in 2003.
  • Teaching Activities

  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course
  • Leadership Assessmnt & Develp Taught course
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2023
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2023
  • Managing Self & Leading Others Taught course 2022
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2022
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2022
  • Independent Study Taught course 2022
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2021
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2021
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2021
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2021
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2020
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2020
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2020
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2020
  • Managing Self & Leading Others Taught course 2019
  • Managing Self & Leading Others Taught course 2019
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2019
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2019
  • Managing Self & Leading Others Taught course 2018
  • Managing Self & Leading Others Taught course 2018
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2018
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2018
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2017
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2017
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2016
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2016
  • Leadership Assessmnt & Develp Taught course 2016
  • Leadership Assessmnt & Develp Taught course 2016
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2015
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2015
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2015
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2014
  • Organizational Behavior Taught course 2014
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2014
  • Behavior in Organizations Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Psychology, Indiana University - Bloomington
  • M.A. Organizational Psychology, Columbia University
  • Ph.D. Social Psychology, Boston University
  • Full Name

  • Vanessa Druskat