Wendy K. Smith is professor of management and Deutsch Family Fellow at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. She studies how we adopt both/and approaches to navigate competing demands in our life and work – tensions between today and tomorrow, global and local, social missions and financial pressures, work and life, competition and collaboration. Her research has been published in top journals, and she has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher for being among the top 1% of scholars with the most cited research. In 2016, she co-founded the Women’s Leadership Initiative at UD, which works to advance gender equity, from the classroom to the boardroom. She engages with senior leadership teams around the world, providing teaching, consulting and keynote talks to address the challenges of leadership and advancing organizational change and innovation. She earned her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Harvard Business School.
Wendy Smith
