CGO Faculty & Affiliates
Bonita Betters-Reed
bonita.betters-reed@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ph.D., Boston College
Specialization: Organization behavior, diversity, leadership, entrepreneurship
Dr. Betters-Reed came to the Simmons faculty in 1986 and has shared with the community her expertise in organizational leadership, communication, and behavior, emphasizing diversity management and cross-cultural communication. She has built her academic strengths by staying actively involved in family business for more than 25 years and providing strategic consultation for both small businesses and the non-profit sectors.
Dr. Betters-Reed teaches courses in leadership, strategic management, organizational behavior and change and diversity management. She and Dr. Lynda Moore have made numerous presentations and co-authored several articles and cases on diversity among women managers and entrepreneurs. They are recent recipients of three grants for case research on the leadership of Boston based minority-owned businesses. They were contributors to Teaching Diversity: Listening to the Soul, Speaking from the Heart. In 1998 Drs. Betters-Reed and Moore were co-recipients of the SBA Women in Business Advocate of the Year Award for Massachusetts and New England. Most recently, they were invited contributors to the Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education.
Dr. Betters-Reed has been a Director of Betters International Food Corp. since 1980 and was an active owner and director of other family held businesses in manufacturing and agribusiness. She is a Past President and a current Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management, and serves as a member of several professional organizations. She currently chairs the Committee on Tenure and Promotion and continues to provide assessment and strategic support for the School of Management. She was also an American Council of Education (ACE) Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.
Stacy Blake-Beard
stacy.blakebeard@simmons.edu
Senior Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Specialization: Organization behavior, mentoring, diversity
Dr. Blake-Beard's research focuses on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, and on how these relationships may be changing as a result of increasing workforce diversity. She is particularly interested in the issues women face as they develop mentoring relationships. Her research led to a highly publicized study on the growing importance of women mentors, and she also studies the dynamics of formal mentoring programs in both corporate and educational settings.
Before coming to Simmons in 2002, Dr. Blake-Beard was Assistant Professor of Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she taught organizational behavior, cultural diversity in organizations, and mentoring relationships at work. She consults with a number of organizations on issues of diversity, implementing formal mentoring programs and team building for organizations such as Chase Manhattan Bank, The Compact for Faculty Diversity, and PepsiCo. She currently sits on the advisory boards of Essence magazine's Best Places for African American Women to Work, MentorNet, and the Harvard Project on Tenure.
Patricia Deyton
patricia.deyton@simmons.edu
Director, Center for Gender in Organizations
Master of Divinity, Yale University MSW, Administration, Columbia University
Specialization: Nonprofit and general management, gender and diversity
Patricia Deyton has taught Leading and Managing Effective Nonprofit Organizations at several universities, including the Simmons School of Management. She currently teaches the course at the Harvard Extension School along with a course in Gender, Leadership and Management. She was cited as distinguished faculty by the Radcliffe Graduate Seminars at Harvard, where she began her teaching career. In addition to teaching, she provides seminars and talks on the nonprofit sector, the role of women in leadership, and related topics.
She has over 30 years of experience at the highest executive levels in the nonprofit sector, most recently as the Executive Director of the Council of Women World Leaders and the International Assembly of Women Ministers at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to her work with the Council and Assembly, she was CEO of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay, based in Boston. An advocate of civic engagement, she has served on numerous boards and commissions in the nonprofit and public sectors and is currently a board member with five organizations.
Patricia is also a consultant to the nonprofit sector, specializing in strategic planning, board development, and executive coaching. She co-founded the highly successful Forum for Women Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations. She is continuing her relationship with the Council as the Senior Program Consultant.
Joyce Fletcher
joyce.fletcher@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
D.B.A., Boston University
Specialization: Organization behavior, leadership, gender
Dr. Fletcher, an authority on leadership and the interaction of gender and power in the workplace, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on the topic of women, power, and leadership. She uses relational theory and feminist concepts of power to understand and improve organizational effectiveness. Published extensively in academic journals, Fletcher has co-authored a widely read Harvard Business Review article entitled "A Modest Manifesto for Shattering the Glass Ceiling." Fletcher’s book, Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power and Relational Practice at Work, was nominated as one of the year’s best management books by the Academy of Management in 2001. She also co-authored Beyond Work Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance, a book about how to lead organizational change efforts to achieve equity and effectiveness.
Dr. Fletcher is a Senior Research Scholar at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley College Centers for Women. She was on the faculty of Northeastern University before joining Simmons in 1998.
Cynthia Ingols
cynthia.ingols@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ed.D., Harvard University
Specialization: Organization behavior, change management, careers
Dr. Ingols combines careers in teaching, consulting, and research. She taught Management Communication at Harvard Business School and quantitative research methodology courses at other institutions. Dr. Ingols focuses her consulting work in three areas: developing interactive executive education programs, particularly using cases, within colleges and corporations; coaching women managers and executives to deepen their self-confidence; and conducting organizational diagnostic work to enhance innovation and creativity. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Harvard Business Review, Organizational Dynamics, Training, and Design Manual Journal. She recently co-authored two books - Your Job Interview: An Easy, Smart Guide to Interview Success; and Take Charge of Your Career - with SOM colleague Mary Shapiro.
Deborah Kolb
deborah.kolb@simmons.edu
Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Specialization: Negotiation, gender
Professor Kolb is an authority on gender issues in negotiation, and leadership, especially how women can negotiate the conditions for their own success while at the same time contributing to the effectiveness of their organization. Kolb has co-authored several books on this subject. Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas of Bargaining shows women (and men) how they can become more effective in their everyday negotiations by attending to the dual requirements of the shadow negotiation – advocacy for oneself and connection with others. Originally titled, The Shadow Negotiation, Harvard Business Review named it one of the ten best business books of 2000 and it received the best book award from the International Association of Conflict Management in 2001. Her new book Her Place at the Table: A Women’s Guide to Negotiating the Five Challenges of Leadership Success describes how successful women negotiate for what they need to be effective in leadership roles at all levels of an organization.
Kolb publishes extensively on these topics and regularly presents her work to national and international audiences. Kolb has recently done work with: Campbell Soup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank; Deloitte and Touche; Eli Lilly; EMC, W.L. Gore, IBM, JP Morgan-Chase, Phillips Medical, Pricewaterhouse/Coopers; Time, Inc., and Verizon. Non profit organizations have included The Ford Foundation, The Consultative Group in International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Girl Scouts, USA, The Society for Human Resource Management, Financial Executives International, Financial Women’s Association, the Mayo Clinic, Network of Executive Women, Women in Technology International, among many others. Dr. Kolb is a principal in Negotiating Women, LLC., a company that provides negotiation training and consultation especially designed for women.
Kolb joined the Simmons faculty in 1977. From 1991-1994, she was Executive Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Program where she co-directs The Negotiations in the Workplace Project.
Sylvia Maxfield
sylvia.maxfield@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialization: Global economics, corporate social responsibility
Through Dr. Maxfield’s experience in both the academic and business worlds she has become a specialist in the global economy. Before coming to Simmons, Maxfield taught Business and the International Economy and Comparative Government-Business Relations as a professor at Harvard and Yale Universities, and also served as the academic director of Yale’s M.A. Program in International Affairs. In business, Dr. Maxfield was the Senior Sovereign Analyst for Latin America at Lehman Brothers. She also has consulted widely with organizations such as the World Bank and Mitsubishi International. Maxfield is the author and editor of several books, most recently Gatekeepers of Growth. Her cases and research projects have appeared in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal.
Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands
deborah.merrill-sands@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ph.D., Cornell University
Specialization: Organization behavior, leadership, gender
Deborah Merrill-Sands has served as Dean of the Simmons School of Management since 2004. Dr. Merrill-Sands is an authority on gender dynamics in the workplace, women and leadership, and organizational change. As Dean, Dr. Merrill Sands has overseen the development of the School's nationally-ranked entrepreneurship program, integrated business ethics and corporate social responsibility into the curriculum, strengthened faculty research, and expanded global education and partnerships. In her previous role as the School's Associate Dean, she was responsible for executive education, research, development and alumnae relations, and corporate relations. She partnered with Deloitte to fund the School's first endowed chair in Women and Leadership and secured new Fortune 50 companies as Executive Education clients. Dr. Merrill-Sands is a co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Gender in Organizations, the research arm of the School of Management focused on deepening understanding of gender and diversity dynamics in the work place and their impact on women's opportunities for leadership. The Center was launched with a major grant from the Ford Foundation.
Before joining the School of Management in 1998, Dr. Merrill-Sands was the leader of a major women's initiative in a large, global, consortium of prestigious international research centers. Previously her research, executive training, and consulting focused on strengthening research management in public sector research organizations in developing countries. Her research focused on research methodologies and organizational mechanisms that enable the integration of the perspectives of poor farmers into agricultural research priority-setting and technology development.
Dr. Merrill-Sands has considerable international experience, particularly in Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has consulted widely with major foundations and international development organizations, including the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and several UN agencies. She has served on the boards of not-for-profits and international research organizations. Currently she is a member of the Board of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, CT.
Dr. Merrill-Sands has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright-Hays. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in applied anthropology from Cornell University and her B.A. from Hampshire College.
She is the author of numerous monographs, book chapters, and journal articles. Recent publications include: "Women Pursuing Leadership and Power: The Myth of the 'Opt-Out' Revolution", CGO Insight, 2005; "Creating and Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations: Best Practices for Today and Tomorrow" in The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity (2003); and "Social Differences Lens" in Reader in Gender, Work, and Organization (2003).
Recent speaking engagements include 'Principled Leadership: Aligning profitability and social responsibility," keynote at TEC Women and Leadership Forum; "Gender Dynamics in the Workplace: Implications for women and leadership," keynote for Hewlett-Packard's Women's Forum; and "Women as Leaders: Paradox of Success - Claiming your leadership value," delivered at Northern Trust, JP Morgan Chase, Sun Life Financial, State Street Bank, and Goldman Sachs.
Dean Merrill-Sands is quoted frequently in the media as an expert on women and leadership, including recent coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Radio, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, NY Times, and Boston Globe.
Lynda Moore
lynda.moore@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
Ed.D., University of Massachusetts
Specialization: Organization behavior, diversity, leadership, gender
For more than 30 years, Professor Moore has focused her research, consulting, and teaching on women’s leadership and advancement as well as diversity management and cross-cultural differences in organizations. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Management Development, The Organizational Behavior Teaching Review, Personnel, The Journal of Behavioral and Applied Science, and Ms. magazine. Moore was the founding consultant and acting director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute at Harvard University and author of Not as Far as You Think, an influential text examining the evolution of theories and practices of women in management. She currently teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses focusing on diversity, gender, and cultural impacts on organizational behavior and leadership at Simmons College, Boston, MA. Moore is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Gender and Organizations at the Simmons School of Management and has been teaching there for over 25 years.
As an active leader in the early stages of the study of women in management, Moore helped establish the discipline. Current research expands her leadership and contributions in the field to an international level; one current project analyzes the impact of culture on global family business models in ten regions of the world. Her expertise on gender and diversity in management has been recognized by many professional organizations; Moore has received three Coleman Foundation grants. These funds were used to study successful minority women business leaders in the United States, focusing on the role of cultural identity in leadership effectiveness.
Other areas of research and study include women’s global leadership and developing culturally sensitive models of leadership. Moore is a pioneer in global and cross-cultural research and curriculum development. Courses designed while at Simmons College include an interdisciplinary graduate course entitled “Globalization and Diversity” and the School of Management’s first study abroad course, “Cross Cultural Comparative Analysis of Women Leaders.” Students in this innovative course traveled to India and the United Arab Emirates in the spring of 2007 to study women leaders in a context of cultural comparison.
Moore was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She will teach courses on leadership in the College of Business Sciences and conduct a research project on corporate women leaders in the United Arab Emirates. The highly selective Fulbright Fellowships are designed to increase mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and people from other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. In addition to their strong academic and professional performance, recipients are selected for their leadership potential.
Mary Shapiro
mary.shapiro@simmons.edu
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations
M.S., Economics and MBA, Wright State University
Specialization: Communication Strategies, Career Strategies, Public Speaking
For more than 20 years as a consultant, executive trainer, and faculty member, Professor Shapiro has worked with public and private companies to develop the infrastructure and competencies critical to reaching organizational goals. She joined the Simmons MBA faculty in 1993, and has developed and delivered Simmons Executive Education programs since 1988. Shapiro specializes in four areas: team building and intervention, communicating in a diverse and virtual environment, personal effectiveness in influence and motivation, and strategic career management. She developed "The Communication Styles Diagnostic," a tool that has been used by more than 4000 managers to improve their effectiveness with individuals and teams. She recently co-authored two books—Your Job Interview: An Easy, Smart Guide to Interview Success; and Take Charge of Your Career with SOM colleague Dr. Cynthia Ingols—which extend an understanding of interviewing and work strategies to include the nuances of gender and many dimensions of diversity. She continues her research in the area of women, their careers, and their relationship with power.
Throughout her professional career, Shapiro has consulted with public and private Fortune 500 clients, such as ESPN and Merck Pharmaceuticals. She continues to create and deliver an inventory of seminars, serve as an executive speech coach, and help organizations launch teams and turn around teams in crises.
CGO Faculty
- Bonita Betters-Reed
- Stacy Blake-Beard
- Patricia Deyton
- Joyce Fletcher
- Cynthia Ingols
- Deborah Kolb
- Sylvia Maxfield
- Dean Deborah Merrill-Sands
- Lynda Moore
- Mary Shapiro
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