Vanessa Druskat
Vanessa is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. She is an applied social psychologist who uses her deep knowledge of social systems to help answer real-world questions facing organizations like: How should self-managing teams lead themselves? How should a leader lead a self-managing team? How does team environment influence prosocial behavior in teams? She has twice received awards for papers deemed both rigorous and practical from the Center for Creative Leadership. Her Harvard Business Review (HBR) article (with S. Wolff) on emotionally intelligent teams was selected as an HBR Breakthrough Idea and has been re-printed four-times in collections of HBR’s most popular articles. She is an award-winning teacher who consults with leaders and teams in organizations ranging Fortune 50 corporations to non-profits around the world. She is currently working on a book that combines her theory on the socio-emotional conditions that strengthen team collaboration with cases from her coaching and consulting work.
Courses Taught
- ADMN 575: Behavior in Organizations
- ADMN 912: Managing Self & Leading Others
- PAUL 725: Independent Study
Selected Publications
Druskat, V., & Bencks, A. (2019). The role of social and emotional intelligence for leadership effectiveness during the 4th industrial revolution.. In I. Vrdoljak Raguz (Ed.), Global Trends and Challenges in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Vol. 4 (pp. 43-61). Dubrovnik, Croatia: University of Dubrovnik. Retrieved from http://info@diem-dubrovnik.com/
Druskat, V. U., Wolff, S., & Bharwaney, G. (2018). Emotion and team performance: Team coaching mindsets and practices for team intervention.. In K. Lowe, D. Clutterbuck, S. Hayes, D. McKie, J. Gannon, & I. Iordanou (Eds.), Handbook of Team Coaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Druskat, V. U. (2017). Using Emotional Intelligence to Build High Performing Teams: Self-awareness, self-control, social awareness and relationship management. In Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence 12 Competency Primer Set.
Team emotional intelligence: Linking team social and emotional environment to team effectiveness (2017). Retrieved from http://www.diem-dubrovnik.com/diem/index.php/diem/diem2017
"Catching" Team Emotional Competence (2014).
Druskat, V. U., & Wheeler, J. V. (2003). MANAGING FROM THE BOUNDARY: THE EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP OF SELF-MANAGING WORK TEAMS.. Academy of Management Journal, 46(4), 435-457. doi:10.2307/30040637
Wolff, S. B., Pescosolido, A. T., & Druskat, V. U. (2002). Emotional intelligence as the basis of leadership emergence in self-managing teams. LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY, 13(5), 505-522. doi:10.1016/S1048-9843(02)00141-8
Druskat, V. U., & Pescosolido, A. T. (2002). The content of effective teamwork mental models in self-managing teams: Ownership, learning and heedful interrelating. HUMAN RELATIONS, 55(3), 283-314. doi:10.1177/0018726702553001
Smith, R. H., Turner, T. J., Garonzik, R., Leach, C. W., Urch-Druskat, V., & Weston, C. M. (1996). Envy and Schadenfreude. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22(2), 158-168. doi:10.1177/0146167296222005
Druskat, V. U. (1994). Gender and leadership style: Transformational and transactional leadership in the Roman Catholic Church. The Leadership Quarterly, 5(2), 99-119. doi:10.1016/1048-9843(94)90023-x
Most Cited Publications