About Terri Scandura
About Terri Scandura
Terri A. Scandura is currently a Professor of Management in the School of Business Administration at the University of Miami. From 2007 to 2012, she served as Dean of the Graduate School of the University. Her fields of interest include leadership, mentorship, and applied research methods. She has been a visiting scholar in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, China and the United Arab Emirates.
Dr. Scandura has authored or co-authored over two hundred presentations, articles and book chapters. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Industrial Relations, Research in Organizational Behavior and Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management and others.
She has presented Executive Education programs on Leadership, Mentoring, Leading Change and High Performance Teams to numerous organizations such as VISA International, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the Young Presidents Organization, and Baptist Health Systems. Dr. Scandura is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, the Society of Organizational Behavior (SOB) and the Academy of Management. She is a past-Associate editor for Group & Organization Management, the Journal of International Business Studies and the Journal of Management. She is currently an Associate Editor for Organizational Research Methods and serves on several Editorial Boards.
Where Research Meets Business Practice.
Terri’s work spans three interconnected disciplines, each grounded in decades of rigorous research, each directly applied to the leadership challenges organizations face today.
Leadership
Terri has spent decades studying how the relationship between leaders and their teams drives performance, loyalty, and organizational outcomes. Her research on Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) is among the most cited in the field and the foundation of her executive programs on leading high-performance teams.
Leadership
Terri has spent decades studying how the relationship between leaders and their teams drives performance, loyalty, and organizational outcomes. Her research on Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) is among the most cited in the field and the foundation of her executive programs on leading high-performance teams.
Mentorship
From her earliest research to her most recent publications, mentorship has been at the center of Terri’s work. She has studied how mentoring relationships form, why some fail, and what makes them transformational, for both the mentor and the mentee.
“After working with Terri Scandura, I can say without reservation that she is one of the most knowledgeable and dedicated professionals I’ve ever met. In any industry or position. If you’re looking for a way to move your management training to the highest level, I would recommend Terri to anyone. The whole experience was, start to finish, the best I could hope for.”
- Scot Zoumbaris
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Books
Textbooks, guides, and practical reads on leadership, management, and negotiation.
Articles & Research
200+ peer-reviewed publications spanning four decades of leadership and organizational research.
Blog
Practical insights on leadership, mentorship, and negotiation, written for the people who do the work.
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