Resilient Leadership in HealthcareCornell Course

Elizabeth Mannix’s research and teaching is focused on effective organizational performance and the factors that make individuals motivated, high-performing leaders and team members. Specific topics include authentic leadership, principled negotiation and influence, the role of emotional intelligence in business settings, organizational change, women in leadership, and diversity. She is certified in the MSCEIT emotional intelligence assessment.

Professor Mannix is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles as well as the 15-volume book series “Research on Managing Groups and Teams.” Her work has been recognized by awards from organizations including the Academy of Management, Small Group Research, and the International Association for Conflict Management.

Professor Mannix teaches and consults with executives and organizations nationally and around the globe, with a special emphasis on the Middle East and Asia. She is a two-time Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review as well as a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, the Society for Organizational Behavior, and the Academy of Management.

Professor Mannix earned her Ph.D. degree in Social and Organizational Psychology from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell, she was a faculty member at Columbia Business School and at the University of Chicago. Professor Mannix was also a visiting professor in the MBA program at the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sunita Sah’s research explores influence and advice, focusing on trust, advisor-advisee relationships, conflicts of interest, transparency, disclosure, compliance, defiance, and employee voice. She examines why people follow poor advice and how disclosure policies can backfire. Using laboratory and field experiments, qualitative analysis, and large archival datasets, Professor Sah integrates organizational behavior, psychology, and behavioral economics to study the complexities of speaking up in professional and personal settings.

Professor Sah’s work has been published in leading journals across management, science, medicine, law, economics, and psychology, including PNAS, JAMA, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. It has also been featured in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, BBC News, CNN, and NPR. Professor Sah has received multiple best-paper awards and scholar recognitions from institutions including the Academy of Management, Russell Sage Foundation, Harvard University, and Kellogg School of Management.

Professor Sah has held academic positions at Cambridge, Georgetown, Duke, and Harvard, and previously worked as a medical doctor in the UK NHS and as a senior consultant and CEO in the healthcare and consulting sectors. She serves on several advisory and editorial boards in behavioral economics and public policy. Professor Sah holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon, an MBA with distinction from London Business School, an MB ChB in medicine and surgery, and a BSc (Hons) in psychology from the University of Edinburgh.