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Linda Ginzel

Linda Ginzel

Linda E. Ginzel has been on the Chicago Booth faculty since 1992. She specializes in negotiation skills, managerial psychology, leadership and executive development. Her recent book, Choosing Leadership, helps readers to develop what she terms Leadership Capital: the courage, wisdom and capacity to decide when to manage and when to lead.

Ginzel has taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science, as well as a member of the Academy of Management. At Booth, she has received the 2011 Faculty Excellence Award, and the Inaugural Global Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. She was named an Impact Professor by the class of 2014, received the Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award in 2019, and the class of 2020 Phoenix Award.

Ginzel received her bachelor's degree with distinction and Summa Cum Laude in psychology from the University of Colorado in 1984. She studied experimental social psychology at Princeton University where she earned a Master's degree in 1986 and a PhD in 1989. During her PhD studies, she worked as senior consultant in training and development for Mutual of New York's Group Pensions and Operations Center.

In 2000 President Clinton awarded her a President's Service Award, the nation's highest honor for volunteer service directed at solving critical social problems. Ginzel is the co-founder of Kids In Danger, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children's product safety. She also served as director of the Consumer's Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports.

Primary Interests:

  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Person Perception
  • Social Cognition

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Building Your Leadership Capital (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

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  • Building Your Leadership Capital (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)


  • Skyscrapers and Leadership: Rising Above Load-Bearing Assumptions

    Convocation address, University of Chicago Booth School of Business


  • Choosing Leadership (Global Booth Day)


  • The Courage, Wisdom, and Capacity to Decide When to Manage and When to Lead

    Keynote Address, 2015 Booth Women Connect Conference


  • Marketing Leadership Technology: Diverse Thought Leadership


  • Behavior Is a Function of the Person and the Situation

    The Course, Episode 48



Courses Taught:

  • Choosing Leadership
  • Essentials in Effective Management
  • Leadership Capital
  • Managerial Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Strategies and Processes of Negotiation
  • The Practice of Leadership in Business
  • The Role of the General Manager
  • Workshop in Behavioral Science

Linda Ginzel
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States of America

  • Phone: (773) 702-7889
  • Fax: (773) 702-0458

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