Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is the director of the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center, the Leading High Impact Teams Executive program, High Performance Negotiation Skills Executive program and Negotiating in a Virtual World Executive online program, and co-director of the Constructive Collaboration Executive program and the Navigating Work Place Conflict Executive program. In addition, she is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Northwestern.
Her research focuses on negotiation behavior and performance, creativity, and analogical reasoning. Her most recent research projects include investigations of divergent versus convergent thinking on negotiation performance; mindfulness and negotiation performance; gender and the use of ethically-questionable negotiation strategies; embarrassment and pride and their effects on creativity; and how analogical reasoning improves negotiation performance.
She has published more than 130 research articles and chapters in edited books. She has authored 9 books: The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator (7th edition); Stop Spending, Start Managing; Making The Team (6th edition); Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration; The Truth About Negotiations (2nd edition); Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams; Shared Knowledge in Organizations (with David Messick and John Levine); Organizational Behavior Today; Negotiation: Theory and Research and The Social Psychology of Organizational Behavior: Essential Reading.
She has a PhD (1988) from Northwestern University, an MA (1984) from University of California, Santa Barbara and a BS (1982) from Northwestern University
Stop Spending Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits