Get to know our team of thought leaders
Our expert faculty are ready to support you by drawing from their expertise in leadership, talent management, teamwork and collaboration, employee engagement and well-being, and much more. You’ll be in the driver’s seat every step of the way as we create offerings from one-hour webinars to half-day workshops to year-long, multi-module programs that fit your needs. Our faculty, including those profiled below, are ready to work with you.
Stephen Courtright, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Tippie Leadership Collaborative and Henry B. Tippie Research Professor
Jennifer Nahrgang, Ph.D.
Department Executive Officer, Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair, and Professor
Kenneth Brown, Ph.D.
Tippie Children Professor of Management
Beth Livingston, Ph.D.
Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations
Daniel Newton, Ph.D.
Cannon Faculty Scholarship for Teaching Excellence, Associate Professor
Erin Nelson, MBA
Associate Professor of Practice
Our faculty in action
Listen
Tippie Leads Podcast: Stories from the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business that will change the way you work and lead. Produced by the Tippie Leadership Collaborative and hosted by Nick Westergaard, each season of Tippie Leads will focus on a “grand challenge” in today’s changing world of work. In our first season, we’re looking at employee engagement with groundbreaking faculty research, student and alumni stories, actionable insights, and more.
Watch
The Tippie Leadership Collaborative has partnered with Tippie’s alumni relations team to provide a series of webinars focused on pressing problems faced by today’s leaders. As with the Tippie Leads podcast, these webinars showcase the best of our faculty research coupled with actionable takeaways. Below is a sampling of these free webinars.
- Can You Hear Me Now? The Value of Employee Voice at Work
- How to Make Smarter Decisions
- Working Apart but Together: How Leaders Design and Coach Hybrid Teams for Peak Performance
- Recognizing and Addressing Job Burnout
- Developing the Leader Within You (and Your Organization)
- Toxic Leadership - Why It Happens and How to Stop It
- Workplace Well-Being Webinar Series
- Protection from Harm: Prioritizing Psychological Safety & Enabling Adequate Rest
- Connection and Community: Creating Cultures of Belonging & Cultivating Trusted Relationships
- Providing Autonomy Over How Work Is Done & Respecting Boundaries between Work and Nonwork Time
- Engaging Workers in Workplace Decisions & Connecting Individual Work with Organizational Mission
- Opportunity for Growth: Offering Quality Training, Education, and Mentoring & Ensuring Relevant Reciprocal Feedback
Read
Our faculty experts are frequently tapped by top media outlets to share their expertise. Many of them are also frequent contributors to the Harvard Business Review and other top industry publications. Below is a sampling of this work:
- 5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell
- Research: Informal Leadership Comes at a Cost
- Incompetent Bosses
- Stop Screening Job Candidates’ Social Media
- How Core Team Members Affect Team Performance
- Intimate Partner Violence Is a Workplace Issue
- Should You Rehire an Employee Who Left Your Company?
- Stop Making Excuses for Toxic Bosses
- Why Capable People are Reluctant to Lead
- Make Your Side Hustle Work
- Study Investigates How We Invest Meaning in Our Daily Work
- Balancing Power Imbalances at Work
- On Second Thought…
- Office Frustrations More Likely to Cause Proactive Employees to Leave; Less Proactive Employees Will Take it
- Companies Taking Political Stands Might Miss Out on Top Talent
Work with us
Contact our team at: Tippie-TLC@uiowa.edu or click the button below to get started.