CGO Faculty & Affiliates

 

The potency and relevance of the CGO mission attract some of the very best leading thinkers and practitioners in the areas of gender equity, diversity and organizational effectiveness. Our faculty members are drawn from the distinguished faculty at the Simmons School of Management while our Affiliates come from other prestigious institutions.

Bonita Betters-ReedBonita Betters-Reed
bonita.betters-reed@simmons.edu

Professor
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-BeardStacy Blake-Beard
stacy.blakebeard@simmons.edu

Associate Professor

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.

In April 2010, she received a Fulbright Award; she will use the award to study the impact of mentoring on the career experiences of professional Indian women — a group that is increasingly entering management ranks but is still underrepresented in the boardroom and in the higher echelons of organizations. She will conduct her research from January 2011 to April 2011, at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India — a partner institution to the Simmons School of Management

Patricia Deyton
patricia.deyton@simmons.edu

Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Gender in Organizations

Master of Divinity, Yale University MSW, Administration, Columbia University

Specialization: Nonprofit and general management, gender and diversity

Patricia H. Deyton is the Faculty Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO), the internationally recognized research arm of the Simmons School of Management in Boston. At Simmons, Ms. Deyton is also a Senior Lecturer in both the MBA and Undergraduate Programs, teaching courses in Gender and Leadership, Managing Diversity, Organizational Change, Nonprofit Management and Introduction to Management. In addition she teaches at Gender, Leadership and Management and Nonprofit Management at the Harvard University Extension School and Principles of Management at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at Simmons and the capstone course on Leadership in the Ph.D. program at GSLIS.

Prior to joining Simmons in the summer of 2004, Ms. Deyton was the Executive Director of the Council of Women World Leaders based at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she had responsibility for the oversight of the strategy, program development and implementation, operations and funding of the Council. The Council is comprised of current and former heads of state and government and works to mobilize the experience, network, knowledge and global visibility of the women who hold or have held the highest offices in their own country. The Council moved to Washington, D.C. in 2004 and Ms. Deyton continues her role with the Council as the Senior Advisor.

From 1989 to 2001, Ms. Deyton was Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay. During her tenure the organization doubled in size of programs and budget. She was active in many national and international programs, leading delegations to Cambodia and Macedonia.

Ms. Deyton has served on numerous boards of directors and public commissions and currently serves as a trustee of the Longy School of Music and the United Methodist Foundation of New England.

Ms. Deyton holds a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University, a Masters of Divinity from Yale University, certificates in management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the Harvard Kennedy School and a certificate in Ethics from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

 

Joyce FletcherJoyce Fletcher
joyce.fletcher@simmons.edu

Distinguished Scholar,
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 IngolsCynthia Ingols
cynthia.ingols@simmons.edu

Associate Professor
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 KolbDeborah Kolb
deborah.kolb@simmons.edu

Distinguished Research Scholar,
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 MaxfieldSylvia Maxfield
sylvia.maxfield@simmons.edu

Associate Professor
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.

Lynda MooreLynda Moore
lynda.moore@simmons.edu

Professor
Senior Scholar for Global Gender and Inclusive Leadership,
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.

Teresa NelsonTeresa Nelson
teresa.nelson@simmons.edu

Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor of Entrepreneurship
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations

Ph.D., Business Administration (Strategic Management/Global Business), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Teresa Nelson holds the Elizabeth J. McCandless Professor of Entrepreneurship Chair and is Director of the School of Management's Entrepreneurship Program. Her teaching, research, and consulting focuses on issues of entrepreneurship and global business, most particularly around start-up and growth company governance and top management team dynamics. She has also been engaged for more than a decade with global business issues, including especially China and the European Union.

In the classroom, Dr. Nelson engages executive, graduate, and undergraduate students in rigorous conceptual and experiential learning, believing that students will benefit from an education that moves them out into the world of practice and is relevant to their talents, goals and interests. Nelson has taught on five continents and travels extensively. She has led travel courses for executives and students to many parts of the world, including China, where she has experienced first-hand the emergence of the market economy over the last dozen years. At Simmons she teaches entrepreneurship in the MBA and Certificate in Entrepreneurship and she works with a team to assist, connect and educate women to launch businesses and social ventures.

Nelson's primary research is related to the implications and outcomes of firms transitioning through growth stages up to and through initial public equity offering. She has studied product, process and performance changes as well as the implications of firm growth patterns on women executives. Her experience in global business has translated into research on the markets of China and the strategic implications of the organization of global stock exchanges. As an affiliate of the Center for Gender in Organizations, Nelson studies the patterns and strategies of action used by women entrepreneurs as they access venture capital.

Dr. Nelson had more than 10 years of business experience in business consulting, government, and politics before returning to school for her MBA and Ph.D. She has founded two businesses and works as an affiliate consultant with two others. She is a frequent speaker on issues of China and women's entrepreneurship.

Mary ShapiroMary Shapiro
mary.shapiro@simmons.edu

Associate Professor
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.

Spela TrefaltSpela Trefalt
trefalt@simmons.edu

Assistant Professor
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organizations

D.B.A., Harvard Business School
M.B.A., University of Kansas
B.A., Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Špela Trefalt earned her D.B.A. degree in Management from the Harvard Business School, her M.B.A. from University of Kansas, and her B.A. in Law from University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. In her research, Trefalt focuses on the issues of managing competing demands of work and life outside of work. She is particularly interested in the role of relationships at work in this process. Prior to her academic career, Trefalt spent six years as a human resources management and consultant, and eight years working in the media in Slovenia.