A preeminent global scholar in leadership studies and public leadership, with over 20 years of faculty experience at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)—where she served as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Public Leadership, a hub for advancing leadership education and research. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, alongside MA and MPhil degrees from Yale, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Renowned for pioneering research on leadership-followership dynamics (a field she helped elevate by shifting focus from “leaders alone” to the interdependence of leaders and followers), she is an author/editor of multiple influential books on leadership and a sought-after international speaker. Her expertise spans public leadership, management studies, and organizational behavior, with contributions to both academia and mainstream discourse—including appearances on CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC, and articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.