Lynn R. Offermann, Ph.D.

Bio

Lynn R. Offermann is Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication at the George Washington University. She is also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association (Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Psychology of Women divisions), and the Association for Psychological Science.

Dr. Offermann’s research focuses on leadership and followership, teams, organizational processes and influence, and diversity issues. She currently holds a grant from the National Science Foundation to study to the impact of relations between members of different demographic groups at work on both individual and organizational outcomes. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology, American Psychologist, Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, Human Performance, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, among other outlets.

Dr. Offermann has worked with numerous public, private, multinational, and international organizations on executive development and coaching, team development, change management, and organizational development. She has trained and coached hundreds of managers from all over the world to improve their leadership effectiveness in multicultural contexts.

Dr. Offermann holds a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from Syracuse University, has been Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Learning and Education, and has served two terms on the Editorial Board of Leadership Quarterly.