Bio - Marian N. Ruderman, Ph.D.

Marian is Group Director, Global Leadership and Diversity at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®). Her research focuses on the career development of women and the leadership challenges inherent in leading a workforce of people from different backgrounds, races, nationalities, ethnicities, and religions. Marian is currently co-manager of a major study that focuses on Leadership Across Differences. This multi-year project is designed to develop tools, techniques, and interventions that enable leadership to more effectively lead groups of people with very different histories, perspectives, values, and cultures.

Marian co-authored Standing at the Crossroads: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women. This book presents original research looking at the fundamental pressures that influence the career and personal decisions of high-achieving women. She is co-editor of Diversity in Work Teams: Research Paradigms for a Changing Workplace. Marian has also written on the importance of job challenge and has coauthored the Center's feedback instrument, the Job Challenge Profile. She has written several Center reports and book chapters and her work has been published in many outlets including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Eurobusiness, and Leader to Leader. In addition, the popular press has reported widely on Marian's work with citations in the Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, and Working Women, among many others. Further, Marian speaks frequently to corporate and academic audiences about issues relating to the careers of women managers.

She is a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for I/O Psychology, the Academy of Management, and associate member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence. Marian holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Webinars:

• Managing Leadership Expectations in a Global Role

Presentations:

• Developing Women Leaders in the New Millennium
• Triggers of Social Identity Conflicts
• Leadership Practices for Bridging Social Identity Differences
• Social Identity Conflicts in Organisational and Cultural Context: Triggers, Responses and Leadership Practices

Articles:

• Fair Enough Strategies from the Fairer Sex
• Getting Real: How to Lead Authentically
• Family Ties: Managers Can Benefit from Personal Lives
• Making the Connection: Leadership Skills and Emotional Intelligence
• Leading Roles: What Coaches of Women Need to Know

Publications:

• Selected Research on Work Team Diversity
• Making Diversity Happen: Controversies and Solutions
• Standing at the Crossroads: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women
• Managerial Promotion: The Dynamics for Men and Women
• Learning from Life: Turning Life's Lessons into Leadership Experience
• The Realities of Management Promotion

Projects:

• Leadership Across Differences

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