Professor Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. In addition to her professorial roles at Claremont Graduate University, Professor Lipman-Blumen is co-founding director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership at the Drucker Ito Graduate School of Management. She also is Director of the Achieving Styles Institute, a Pasadena-based leadership and management consulting group.

Professor Lipman-Blumen is an organizational sociologist/social psychologist, who received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and both A.B. and A.M. degrees from Wellesley College. She spent two post-doctoral years of study in mathematics, statistics, and computer science, the first at Carnegie-Mellon University, and the second at Stanford University. Professor Lipman-Blumen was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1978-79.

Before coming to Claremont, Professor Lipman-Blumen held appointments as Visiting Professor of Sociology and Organizational Behavior at the Universities of Connecticut and Maryland. Prior to that, she served as special consultant to the Domestic Policy Staff in the Carter White House. From 1973 to 1978, she was an Assistant Director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), where she directed the Women's Research Program. Subsequent to her NIE appointment, Professor Lipman-Blumen served as a Special Assistant in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education.

From 1979 to 1984, Professor Lipman-Blumen served as President of LBS International, Ltd., a Washington-based policy analysis and management consulting firm. She has consulted to various departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Executive Office of the President, the Departments of State, Labor, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Education. She has served as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Public Health Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Women's Bureau. She has consulted to various foreign governments, including those of Sweden, Norway, Great Britain, Thailand, Egypt, and Bulgaria. In addition, Professor Lipman-Blumen has consulted to numerous private sector organizations in the U.S. and abroad, such as the Ford Foundation, Bell Laboratories, Singapore Airlines, and MarketIndex (Finland). She has taught in executive management programs in the U.S., Finland, Scotland, Singapore, Thailand, Egypt, and Bulgaria.

Professor Lipman-Blumen is the author of six books, three monographs, and more than 70 journal articles and chapters in other authors' volumes. Her latest book, The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians - and How We Can Survive Them (Oxford University Press), was cited by FastCompany magazine, as well as by ManyWorlds, Inc., as one of the top business books of 2004.

Hot Groups: Seeding, Feeding, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization (Oxford University Press, 1999), which Professor Lipman-Blumen co-authored with Harold J. Leavitt, Walter Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, received The Association of American Publishers' Award (Scholarly/Professional Division) for "The Best Business Book of 1999." It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, and Korean and will soon appear in Japanese.

Lipman-Blumen's earlier book on leadership, The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World (Jossey-Bass, 1996,), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the George Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management, and the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association. It was chosen as a featured volume for the European Executive Book Club Associates. The Connective Edge has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese. It is currently being translated into Korean.

Professor Lipman-Blumen's other books include Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies, with Grace Gabe, M.D. (St. Martins Press, 2004); Gender Roles and Power (Prentice Hall, l984); and Sex Roles and Social Policy (co-edited with Jessie Bernard) (Sage Publications, 1978). Her three monographs are The Paradox of Success: The Impact of Priority Setting in Agricultural Research and Extension (1984), Metaphor for Change: The USDA Competitive Grants Program, 1978-1984 (1985), and Women in Corporate Leadership: Reviewing a Decade's Research (Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1996).

Professor Lipman-Blumen's work has appeared in such journals as Scientific American, The Harvard Business Review, Harvard Educational Review, Leader to Leader, The Ivey Business Journal, The Journal of Business Education, Change Magazine, Organizational Dynamics, Sociological Perspectives, The Journal of Marriage and the Family, Liberal Education, and The Stanford Magazine. She has also contributed articles to the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Encyclopedia of Leadership, the Encyclopedia of Executive Governance, and the Encyclopedia of Career Development.

Professor Lipman-Blumen has been the keynote speaker at numerous national and international conferences, including the Third International Symposium on Multinational Business Management: The 21st Century Global Corporation, Nanjing University, PRC; the International Federation of Training and Development Organizations (IFTDO), Helsinki, Finland; the American Society for Association Executives (ASAE), Orlando, Florida; Leadership California, Los Angeles; Leadership Texas, Dallas; University of California Northridge Faculty Conference; the College and University Personnel Association (CUPA); the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), Irvine, California; the International Leadership Association (ILA), Atlanta, Georgia, and the Academy of Educational Development. She has been the featured seminar speaker for a U.S. Chamber of Commerce live telecast to more than 100 downlink sites. In 1998, she was invited to serve as the Lowell Hellervik/Personnel Decisions International (PDI) Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. Her consulting activities have focused primarily on leadership and organizational issues in technical and scientific organizations.

Professor Lipman-Blumen serves on several boards. These include The Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation in Business; The De Pree Leadership Center, Fuller Theological Seminary; The Ernest Becker Foundation; the International Leadership Association; Women of Los Angeles; International Place, Claremont University Center; Linkage's Annual Leadership Development Conference; The House of Ruth, Pomona; and The California Corporate Board Registry. She previously served on the International Advisory Board, Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Dublin, Ireland; Board of Advisors, Tomas Rivera Policy Center; and the Research Board of the Girls' Clubs of America.

Dr. Lipman-Blumen is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Social Science, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, American Men and Women in Science, the World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who of American Women, Women's Organizations and Leaders, and Who's Who in the West. She has received the Claremont Graduate University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research.

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