Rachel Clapp-Smith
Leadership has always been a topic of fascination for Rachel, but her concept of leadership was truly broadened when a year studying abroad in Munich, Germany, morphed into a 5-year stint managing multi-cultural teams in the IT industry. She discovered that IT was not her passion, but global leadership is. She quickly put herself in a situation where she could explore global leadership development in detail: academia. Since then, Rachel has persistently tested her cultural frames of leadership by traveling internationally when possible and exposing her two small children to multiple cultures. Rachel has coached managers enrolled in the EMBA at Purdue University Northwest and found that coaching can benefit managers at any stage of their career.
Official Bio: Rachel is a Professor of Leadership in the College of Business at Purdue University Northwest. She received her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Leadership at the University of Nebraska and MBA in International Management at Thunderbird, the School of Global Management. Dr. Clapp-Smith has devoted her research to Global Mindset and Global Leadership Development, publishing articles in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Leadership Studies, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Human Resource Management, Cross-Cultural Management, European Journal of International Management, and the Journal of Business Studies. She has also published a chapter in Global Mindset: Advances in International Management and in a volume of Advances in Global Leadership. Dr. Clapp-Smith has presented at a number of annual meetings of the Academy of Management, International Leadership Association, and Midwest Academy of Management. She is a co-coordinator of the Network of Leadership Scholars and Director of The Leadership Center at Purdue University Northwest.
Leadership has always been a topic of fascination for Rachel, but her concept of leadership was truly broadened when a year studying abroad in Munich, Germany, morphed into a 5-year stint managing multi-cultural teams in the IT industry. She discovered that IT was not her passion, but global leadership is. She quickly put herself in a situation where she could explore global leadership development in detail: academia. Since then, Rachel has persistently tested her cultural frames of leadership by traveling internationally when possible and exposing her two small children to multiple cultures. Rachel has coached managers enrolled in the EMBA at Purdue University Northwest and found that coaching can benefit managers at any stage of their career.
Official Bio: Rachel is a Professor of Leadership in the College of Business at Purdue University Northwest. She received her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Leadership at the University of Nebraska and MBA in International Management at Thunderbird, the School of Global Management. Dr. Clapp-Smith has devoted her research to Global Mindset and Global Leadership Development, publishing articles in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Leadership Studies, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Human Resource Management, Cross-Cultural Management, European Journal of International Management, and the Journal of Business Studies. She has also published a chapter in Global Mindset: Advances in International Management and in a volume of Advances in Global Leadership. Dr. Clapp-Smith has presented at a number of annual meetings of the Academy of Management, International Leadership Association, and Midwest Academy of Management. She is a co-coordinator of the Network of Leadership Scholars and Director of The Leadership Center at Purdue University Northwest.