About the speaker
Stephen Courtright is the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, where he also serves as the founding executive director of the Tippie Leadership Collaborative. He received a BS in accounting from Brigham Young University-Idaho and a PhD in business administration from the University of Iowa. From 2012-2020, Courtright served as an assistant and associate professor at Texas A&M University, where he held the John E. Pearson Professorship and was named a Presidential Impact Fellow.
Courtright’s research on organizational leadership, teamwork, and work-nonwork dynamics has been published in top scholarly journals, earned international awards, received over 7,500 citations, and has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. He is the recipient of several awards for MBA and undergraduate teaching, including being named by Poets & Quants as one of the world’s “Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors.” He has led training and consulted for organizations across the globe, including John Deere, Caterpillar, Halliburton, Saudi Aramco, Dotdash Meredith, HNI Corporation, Win-Co Foods, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.