Associate Professor, Department of People Management and Organisation at
Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Director, GLEAD - Leadership Development Research Centre
Biography
Laura Guillén joined ESADE as Associate Professor in September 2019. 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 at ESADE in the area
of organizational behavior. While working on her PhD, she got a second BS. in Psychology
and was trained as a professional coach. 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, where she
received awards for teaching excellence.She teaches classes on managing and developing
people and organizational behavior to a variety of audiences, including MiMs, MBAs,
EMBAs, and executives. She is also a consultant and a coach to companies on issues
around leadership, personal development, diversity, and group dynamics. Broadly speaking,
her research focuses on understanding how self- and social perceptions are formed
in the workplace and the consequences they entail for individual and group outcomes.
Her work comprises three streams of research to explore these questions: 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.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 5556
Fax: +34 932 048 105