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- Research Professor at Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
- Partner at Lee Hecht Harrison
- Associate Professor (in 2001, moved to Adjunct) at University of Michigan
- President and CEO at eePulse
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Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D.’s Summary
Dr. Welbourne is the founder, President, and CEO of eePulse, Inc., a Research Professor at the Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, USC, an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan Business School, and the founder and lead researcher for the Leadership Pulse initiative. She also is Editor-in-Chief of Human Resource Management, the Journal.
Prior to her adjunct work with Michigan, she was a full-time professor at both the University of Michigan and at Cornell University. Dr. Welbourne’s expertise is in the area of strategic HRM and leadership in high growth and high change organizations. With over 25 years in the HR field, her particular focus is on understanding how various people management, communication, and leadership strategies can harness employee and customer energy to improve firm performance.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1992. Her research has been featured in popular publications such as Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Week, The New York Times, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her work has been published in several books and in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Human Resource Planning, Journal of Organization Behavior, Compensation and Benefits Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of High Technology Management Research.
She is a well known speaker and prolific writer in the areas of leadership, strategy, and HRM. Her latest work is on Extreme Strategizing, which is a new approach to strategy making during times of high change. She is working with colleagues at the Center for Effective Organizations and eePulse to advance this work with a select group of organizations.
Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D.’s Experience
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Research Professor
Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
(Research industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Theresa works with the research team and educators at the Center for Effective Organizations on various projects that bring real-time leadership research to practice. The Center for Effective Organizations is a partner in the Leadership Pulse initiative, the first real-time benchmarking and global leadership learning process.
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Partner
Lee Hecht Harrison
(Computer Software industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Associate Professor (in 2001, moved to Adjunct)
University of Michigan
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1999 — Present (10 years 4 months)
Associate Professor in the Organization Behavior and Human Resource Management Department, now Adjunct Professor in Executive Education in the Ross School of Business.
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President and CEO
eePulse
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — Present (12 years )
President, CEO and Founder, eePulse, Inc., a global technology and management research organization delivering customized, real-time data from employees to leaders to improve organizational performance. eePulse has transformed employee surveys into leadership tools that are breaking new ground in helping organizations manage change, drive strategy, and improve efficiency and revenue growth.
