Leigh Thompson
Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations
at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is the director
of the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center and the Kellogg Leading High Impact
Teams Executive Program.
In 1991, Thompson received the multiyear Presidential Young Investigator award from
the National Science Foundation for her research on negotiation and conflict resolution.
In 1999, Thompson received a grant from Citicorp for research on negotiation. From
1994-95, Thompson was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences in Stanford, Calif.
Thompson's research focuses on negotiation, team creativity and learning. Her most
recent research projects include investigations of: whether managers and executives
actually use knowledge gained in the classroom in real business situations; how
reorganizations facilitate team creativity; the type of analogical reasoning that
Fortune 100 CEOs use in their communications; the social impact of information technology;
and emotional tuning in relationships and teams.
Thompson has published more than 95 research articles and chapters in edited books.
She has authored nine books:
The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator,
Shared Knowledge
in Organizations,
Making the Team,
Organizational Behavior Today,
The Truth About
Negotiations,
The Social Psychology of Organizational Behavior: Essential Reading,
Creativity and Innovation in Organizations,
Negotiation: Theory and Research, and
Conflict in Organizational Groups.
Thompson is a member of the editorial boards of
Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes,
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
Journal of Personality
& Social Psychology,
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making,
International Journal
of Conflict Management, and
Group Decision and Negotiation. She has served on the
selection panel of the Decision, Risk, and Management Program at the National Science
Foundation and its program review committee. She was named a fellow of the American
Psychological Society and is a member of the Academy of Management, American Psychological
Association, Judgment and Decision Making Society, and Society for Experimental
Social Psychologists.