Biography

Laura Guillén is an Associate Professor at ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain). She holds a combined BS. and MBA degree in Business Administration from ESADE. After finishing university, she joined the Unilever ice-cream division in Barcelona where she became passionate not only about ice-cream but about the psychological issues revolving around self- and social perceptions at work. With the hope to understand these 'people issues' better, she returned to the academic world and completed her PhD in the area of organizational behavior. While working on her PhD, she got a second BS. in Psychology. She won a Marie Curie Scholarship from the European Commission to join INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) as a post-doctoral fellow. Prior to joining ESADE, she was a faculty member at ESMT Berlin (Germany). Broadly speaking, her research focuses on leadership, diversity, and identity. Her work has been presented at numerous international research conferences and has been featured in management publications such as Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, Forbes and the Financial Times. Her research has been published in such academic journals as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Research Methods.

Favourite Leader: My daughter

Favourite quote: if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton.

Paper/Book/Author that inspired your work: The mask of sanity, by Hervey Cleckley

What research area are you most excited about for the future? The dark side of leadership