Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies, Yale University School of Management
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies at Yale University’s School of Management and The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice, as well as the Founder, President of THE YALE CHIEF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE– the world’s first “CEO College”. Previously, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. He has been named one of the world’s “ten most influential business school professors” by Business Week and one of the “100 most influential figures in governance” by Directorship. He is also a winner of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Sonnenfeld received his AB, MBA, and doctorate from Harvard University. He has published 200 scholarly articles and seven books including such best sellers as The Hero’s Farewell, Leadership & Governance from the Inside Out, and Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound From Adversity.
His work is regularly cited on all the major US TV networks. He is a commentator for CNBC, a columnist for Chief Executive Magazine, and a frequently cited management expert in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the New York Times, and the global media. He is the first academician to have rung the opening bells of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange which he has done a dozen times.