Lindy Greer

Lindred (Lindy) Greer is a Professor for Management & Organizations at Ross and the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to design and lead high-performing teams. 

Lindy has published in management and psychology research outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management  and American Psychological Association. She is Deputy Editor at Organization Science, has served as an Associate/Senior Editor at the Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science, on the boards of six of the top management and psychology journals, and on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management.  

 Within her work with Michigan Ross Executive Education, she designs and runs c-suite and senior leadership development programs for some of the world’s most influential companies. Dr. Greer has received numerous awards for her teaching and real-world impact on companies, including the Michigan Ross Executive Education Impact Award, Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors from Poets & Quants, and Top 30 Management Thinkers to Watch from Thinkers50 Radar.  Example companies she has supported include Amazon, Carhartt, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, General Motors, Google, KPMG, Life Time Fitness, the National Football League, Oracle, Sequoia Capital, United States Office of National Intelligence, Toyota, and Wabash.

Lindy received her B.S. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She joined the team at Ross in 2019.