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Caryn Block & Katherine Phillips

Teaches at Columbia Business School


Caryn Block, Faculty Co-Director
Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Director of Doctoral Training, Social and Organizational Psychology Program

Caryn Block is a Professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. She joined Columbia University in 1991. She has received numerous awards for her excellence in teaching. Professor Block is also a faculty member in the Columbia Business School Executive Education programs that focus on leadership development. She has been working with Executive Education programs at Columbia Business School since 1997. Professor Block received her PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University and her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Professor Block’s research focuses on how leaders can create climates of inclusion that foster engagement and high performance for all members of their team. Her publications include work on understanding how women and people of color successfully navigate careers in professional contexts when they are in the demographic minority, as well as the influence of gender and racial stereotypes on perceptions of leaders. She has collaborated with researchers at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to examine the impact of perceived racial discrimination at work on adjustment and with researchers at the ADVANCE Project of the National Science Foundation examining the long-term effects of stereotype threat on women scientists. She has published this work in journals such as Journal of Vocational BehaviorAcademy of Management Journal and Journal of Applied Psychology.

Professor Block brings this work to a number of organizations in her consulting practice. She works with leaders in organizations to enhance their effectiveness at managing teams, working with diverse individuals, and creating inclusive climates. Her consulting experience has included work with senior leaders in a wide variety of industries in the United States, Asia, Israel, and Australia.
 

Katherine Phillips, Faculty Co-Director
Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character, Columbia Business School 
Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics

Katherine Phillips’ research addresses the main questions of “what is the value of diversity” and “what are the barriers that prevent society, organizations and especially work teams from capturing the knowledge, perspectives and unique backgrounds of every member.” Her recent research interests tackle issues around the intersection of race and gender stereotypes, the relationship between diversity and perceptions of morality, and insights on how homogeneity affects group processes just as much as diversity itself.

Before joining Columbia, she was associate professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and Co-Director and founder of Northwestern's Center on the Science of Diversity. She has also been a visiting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. Professor Phillips received her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Her Bachelor’s degree is in Psychology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Phillips is the recipient of numerous professional awards, including top awards and recognition from the International Association of Conflict Management, the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Excellence in Work-Family Research Award, and the Gender, Diversity and Organizations Division of the Academy of Management. More of her award-winning work can be found in scholarly outlets such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Organization Science and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

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