About Vanessa
Vanessa Druskat, an award-winning researcher and leading expert on team leadership advises leaders in some of the world’s top organizations. Her three decades of field research examining team cultures that inspire high-performing collaboration produced the Team Emotional Intelligence (Team EI) model. She and her colleagues have used the model globally to teach leaders how to build higher-performing teams. Vanessa is passionate about convincing leaders that under the right conditions people are wired for collaborative teamwork. So, to stop trying to fix people and start building emotionally intelligent team cultures that inspire teamwork. Also an award-winning teacher, she serves on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics in Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
Research Honors & Awards
Invited Associate Editor, for Interdisciplinary Scholarly Journal, Small Group Research
Harvard Business Review, Breakthrough Idea Award. “Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups” (with S. Wolff).
Center for Creative Leadership, Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., Applied Research Award. “Effective Leadership of Self-managing Teams”
Center for Creative Leadership, Kenneth E. Clark Research Award. “Gender & Leadership Style: Transformational and Transactional Leadership in the Roman Catholic Church”
The Academy of Management Journal, Finalist for Best Paper of the Year Award, “Managing from the Boundary: The Effective Leadership of Self-managing Work Teams” (with J. V. Wheeler)
Teaching Honors & Awards
University of New Hampshire, Outstanding MBA Teacher of the Year: 2018-2019, 2014-2015, & 2011-2012
Case Western Reserve University, John S. Diekhoff Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Advising
Case Western Reserve University, Glennan Fellowship Award for Excellent Teaching and Scholarship