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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.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2007 What makes good teams work better: research-based strategies that distinguish top-performing cross-functional drug development teams.  Organization Development Journal.  25:P179-P179. 2007
    2005 Scholarship That Works.  Academy of Management Journal.  48:952-955. 2005
    2004 How to lead a self-managing team.  IEEE Engineering Management Review.  32:21-28. 2004
    2004 How to lead a self-managing team.  MIT Sloan Management Review: MIT's journal of management research and ideas.  45:65-65. 2004
    2004 How to lead a self-managing team.  MIT Sloan Management Review: MIT's journal of management research and ideas.  45:65-65. 2004
    2004 Self-Managing Team.  MIT Sloan Management Review: MIT's journal of management research and ideas.  2004
    2003 MANAGING FROM THE BOUNDARY: THE EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP OF SELF-MANAGING WORK TEAMS..  Academy of Management Journal.  46:435-457. 2003
    2002 Emotional intelligence as the basis of leadership emergence in self-managing teams.  Leadership Quarterly.  13:505-522. 2002
    2002 The content of effective teamwork mental models in self-managing teams: Ownership, learning and heedful interrelating.  Human Relations.  55:283-314. 2002
    2002 Adaptation to Self-Managing Work Teams.  Small Group Research.  33:3-31. 2002
    2001 Building the emotional intelligence of groups.  Harvard Business Review.  79:80-91. 2001
    2001 Emotionale Intelligenz bei Teams.  Harvard Business Manager.  23:9-23. 2001
    2000 Learning versus Performance in Short-Term Project Teams.  Small Group Research.  31:328-353. 2000
    1999 Effects and timing of developmental peer appraisals in self-managing work groups..  Journal of Applied Psychology.  84:58-74. 1999
    1996 Envy and Schadenfreude.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.  22:158-168. 1996
    1994 Gender and leadership style: Transformational and transactional leadership in the Roman Catholic Church.  Leadership Quarterly.  5:99-119. 1994
    Department of Organizational Behavior Weatherhead School of Management
    Effective Leadership of Sel£—Managing Teams: Behaviors and Cognitions that Matter Most
    Emotional intelligence as the basis of leadership emergence.  The Leadership Quarterly. 
    The Magazine

    Article

    Year Title
    2022 I don’t belong here…or do I? How a Team Culture of Belonging Stimulates Intrinsic Prosocial Motivation for Effective Collaboration 2022

    Book

    Year Title
    2025 The emotionally intelligent team: Building collaborative groups that outperform the rest 2025
    2013 Linking emotional intelligence and performance at work: Current research evidence with individuals and groups 2013

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2018 Emotion and team performance: Team coaching mindsets and practices for team intervention. 2018
    2017 Using Emotional Intelligence to Build High Performing Teams: Self-awareness, self-control, social awareness and relationship management 2017
    2012 Applying emotional intelligence in project working.  78-96. 2012
    2008 Group-level emotional intelligence.  441-454. 2008
    2007 The effect of confronting members who break norms on team effectiveness.  229-260. 2007
    2006 THE IMPACT OF EMERGENT LEADER'S EMOTIONALLY COMPETENT BEHAVIOR ON TEAM TRUST, COMMUNICATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND EFFECTIVENESS.  Research on Emotion in Organizations. 25-55. 2006
    2006 The link between group emotional competence and group effectiveness.  223-242. 2006
    2005 LEADERSHIP AND SELF-MANAGING TEAMS.  197-197. 2005
    2001 Group emotional intelligence and its influence on group effectiveness.  132-155. 2001
    1999 The antecedents of team competence: Toward a fine-grained model of self-managing team effectiveness.  Research on Managing Groups and Teams. 201-231. 1999

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2019 The role of social and emotional intelligence for leadership effectiveness during the 4th industrial revolution..  Global Trends and Challenges in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 43-61. 2019
    2017 Team emotional intelligence: Linking team social and emotional environment to team effectiveness 2017
    2014 "Catching" Team Emotional Competence 2014
    2013 Team processes that matter most to work team performance: A Comprehensive Study 2013
    2011 The influence of team leader competencies on teh emergence of emotionally competent team norms 2011
    2009 Group Emotional Competence and the effectiveness of cross-functional pharmaceutical project teams 2009
    2007 A review and integration of the literature on emotional inteligence in the workplace 2007
    2007 Emotional intelligence and performance at work.  Dokuz Eylül Üniversity International Emotional Intelligence and Communication Symposium. 7-9. 2007
    2006 Team-level emotional competence in cross-functional product development teams 2006
    2006 Emotional intelligence and team performance: Findings and future issues. 2006
    2005 Effective boundary management activities in cross-functional decision-making teams. 2005
    2005 Group emotiona competence and its link to group performance 2005
    2003 A socioemotional theory of workgroup effectiveness 2003
    2003 Emotionally competent group norms and group effectiveness 2003
    2003 EMOTIONALLY COMPETENT NORMS AND WORK GROUP EFFECTIVENENESS 2003
    1999 THE LINK BETWEEN EMOTIONS AND TEAM EFFECTIVENESS: HOW TEAMS ENGAGE MEMBERS AND BUILD EFFECTIVE TASK PROCESSES..  Academy of Management Proceedings. L1-L6. 1999
    Antecedents of effective team collaboration: The pivotal role of socio-emotional needs
    Effective Leadership of Self-Managing Teams: Behaviors and Cognitions that Matter Most and the Contextual Issues that Support Them
    Leading Self-Managing Teams from the Inside: Emergent Leader Behavior and Team Effectiveness
    TEAM—LEVEL COMPETENCIES IN SELF—MANAGING TEAMS: BEHAVIORS, NORMS AND PROCESSES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
    Team Culture: Context that affects behavior, interactions, and mindfulness in teams.
    Team emotional intelligence: Linking team social and emotional environment to team effectiveness

    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 2024
  • Leadership Assessmnt & Develp Taught course 2024
  • 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