Lindred (Lindy) Greer is an Associate Professor of Management & Organizations at Ross as well as the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to lead high-performing teams, with specific interests in leadership skills in conflict management, diversity and inclusion, power-flexing, and the communication of emotions. Lindy has published in top 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, among others. Her work has also been covered in well-known media outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management  and American Psychological Association and for her teaching from Poets and Quants (Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors) and Michigan Ross (Exeuctive Education Impact Award).

Lindy is currently an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, on the boards of six of the top management and psychology journals, and has served on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. 

Lindy has 15 years of extensive experience in serving on the board of and/or advising the management teams of both start-ups and publicly traded companies, focusing on enhancing the performance capacity of leadership teams and their ability to lead purpose-driven, high-performing companies.  Within her work for Michigan Ross Executive Education, she regularly coaches C-suite teams on a global basis and designs and runs senior leadership development programs for some of the world’s most influential companies. She specializes in creating high-performing leadership teams and entrepreneurial organizations and in leading culture transformations around teamwork, conflict management, collaboration, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

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.

Dr. Greer is a world-renowned thought-leader on how to create high-performing teams. She has 15 years of extensive experience in serving on the board of and/or advising the management teams of both start-ups and publicly traded companies, focusing on enhancing the performance capacity of leadership teams and their ability to lead purpose-driven, high-performing companies.  

Dr. Greer currently teaches, coaches, and conducts research on leaders as a professor at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business, including via Michigan Ross Executive Education, her curricular MBA teaching, and the Sanger Leadership Center. Within her work in Executive Education, she regularly coaches C-suite teams on a global basis and designs and runs senior leadership development programs for some of the world’s most influential companies. She specializes in creating high-performing leadership teams and entrepreneurial organizations and in leading culture transformations around collaboration, teamwork, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Example companies she has supported include Adient (ADNT), ConvaTec (CNVVY), Exxon Mobil (XOM), General Motors (GM), Google (GOOGL), Sequoia Capital, Life Time (LTH), United States Department of Energy and Office of National Intelligence, Wabash (WNC), and Zachry Group. In addition to her work outside the university in supporting corporate leaders, Dr. Greer also leads leadership development for students on the Ross campus. Dr. Greer has been Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center since 2019. At Sanger, she oversees the stewardship of a ~$20 million endowment, a ~$1 million yearly operating budget, an external board, and a ten-person leadership team which works collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to offer over 10k student touch points per year for leadership development across the university.