Amy Edmondson
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- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024)
- Fellow of the Academy of Management (2023)
- Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award (2023)
- Herbert Simon Award (2022)
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| Born | Amy C. Edmondson |
| Known for | Psychological safety, Team learning, Organizational learning, Intelligent failure |
| Spouse | George Q. Daley |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | Group and organizational influences on team learning (1996) |
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| Institutions | Harvard Business School |
Amy Claire Edmondson[1] is an American scholar of leadership, teaming, and organizational learning.[2] She is currently Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School.[3][4] Edmondson is the author of seven books and more than 75 articles and case studies.[5] She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety, which has helped spawn a large body of academic research in management, healthcare and education over the past 15 years. Her books include "Right Kind of Wrong, the Science of Failing Well" (September 5, 2023),[6] “The Fearless Organization, Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth” (2018)[7]) and “Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy” (2012).[8]
Edmondson earned her A.B. in Visual and Environmental Studies and Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 1980. She subsequently completed an A.M. in Psychology in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in 1996, also at Harvard University.[9][10]
Career
After completing her doctorate, Edmondson joined the faculty at Harvard Business School in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2001, Full Professor in 2004, and was appointed the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management in 2006.[11]
Before joining Harvard, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. She also worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller.[12]
Edmondson studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been published numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review.[12]
She has been ranked by the biannual Thinkers50 global list[13] of top management thinkers since 2011 (most recently number 1 in 2023), and selected in 2019 as the number 1 most influential thinker in Human Resources by HR Magazine.[5]
Awards
- 2024: Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[14]
- 2024: Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service, Columbia University[15]
- 2024: Academy of Management Best Healthcare Management Theory to Practice Award for The Frame Matters (with Nembhard and Kerrissey)[16]
- 2023: Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award for The Right Kind of Wrong[17]
- 2023: Elected Fellow of the Academy of Management[18]
- 2022: Herbert Simon Award[19]
- 2019: Distinguished Scholar Award, Organization Development and Change Division, Academy of Management[20]
- 2019: Named the Most Influential International Thinker in Human Resources by HR Magazine[21]
- 2019: Winner of the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award for The Fearless Organization[13]
- 2019: Ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 list of the world's most influential management thinkers[13]
- 2019: The Fearless Organization named one of the Best International Non-Fiction Books of the Year by the Sharjah International Book Fair[22]
- 2019: The Fearless Organization listed #14 on the Porchlight Business Best Seller list[23]
- 2019: Finalist for the McKinsey Award for the Best Article in Harvard Business Review for “Cross-Silo Leadership” (with Tiziana Casciaro and Sujin Jang)[24]
- 2018: Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management, London Business School[25]
- 2017: OBHR Distinguished Scholar Award, Purdue University[26]
- 2014: Doctorem Honoris Causa, Universiteit Maastricht[27][28]
