Jean Lipman-Blumen Biography

Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradhshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is an expert on leadership, achieving styles, crisis management, "hot groups" organizational behavior, and gender roles. Lipman-Blumen is director and co-founder of CGU's Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership. She is president and co-founder, with the late Prof. Harold J. Leavitt, the Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, of the Connective Leadership Institute (formerly the Achieving Styles Institute), a leadership development, research, and management consulting firm, in Pasadena, California.