Conference Schedule – BOC

Dr. Stefanie K. Johnson

Stefanie is the Director of the Center for Leadership at the University of Colorado and an Associate Professor in the Leeds School of Business. Her teaching, service, and research all focus on the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Stefanie has received $3.8 million dollars in external grant funding from organizations such as CDC NIOSH, the Army Research Institute, and NASA. She received the 2020 NASA group achievement award for her applied research on gender bias. She is a fellow in the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and the American Psychological Society (APS). Stefanie has presented her work at over 200 meetings around the world including at the White House for a 2016 summit on diversity in corporate America. Stefanie is highly committed to bringing rigorous academic research into the public sphere and was recognized by Thinkers50 as a top global top management thinker and was just listed by LinkedIn as a top voice in Leadership Development.

She writes for popular press outlets including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Bloomberg and is the author of the Wall Street Journal National Bestseller, Inclusify: The power of uniqueness and belonging to build innovative teams published by Harper Collins. Media outlets featuring Stefanie’s work include: The Economist, Newsweek, Discover, Time, and The Wall Street Journal. She has appeared on Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, and CNN International. She has lent her expertise to organizations like The World Economic Forum and The National Football League and has worked with the top companies in the world to train inclusive leaders. She has worked with Google, P&G, Medtronic, Salesforce, S&P Global, Johnson & Johnson, Alaska Airlines, Dow, Home Depot, P66, Schwab, Western Digital, MetLife, Southwest Airlines, GE, Cisco, Arrow Electronics, and others.