Oct 6, 2022
This week we welcome Dr. Julia Lee Cunningham for this weeks
conversation. Julia Lee is an Associate Professor
of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross
School of Business, University of Michigan, and a National
Geographic Fellow and Explorer. She currently serves as a faculty
co-director for Center for Positive Organizations. She is also
a faculty affiliate at the Sanger Leadership Center,
and Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at
the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Ross, she served as a
Lab Fellow in Institutional Corruption at the Edmond J. Safra
Center for Ethics, and a Research Fellow in Women and
Public Policy Program at Harvard University. She earned
her PhD, MPP, and AM degrees at Harvard University, where she was
trained in organizational behavior, psychology, and behavioral
economics.
Dr. Lee Cunningham studies the psychology of narratives, lay
theories, and behavioral ethics. She is passionate about
understanding the power of narratives in shaping objective reality,
discovering the mechanisms that alter them, and illuminating how
narratives can be leveraged to yield more ethical, sustainable, and
adaptive behavior in the workplace. Her research has been published
in a number of top scientific journals in management and
psychology, including Academy of Management
Journal, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
Psychological Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision
Processes, and Journal of Applied
Psychology.
Dr. Lee Cunningham strives to promote the use of scientific
evidence in diagnosing and addressing critical problems in public
policy and business practices, and has many years of experience in
consulting and conducting field research with leading companies,
non-profits, and governments. She teaches BBA, MBA, and executive
education courses on leadership, teams, negotiation,
and conflict resolution, and was named one of the Top 50
Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets and
Quants in 2020.