Leadership, Organizations and Communication
Faculty in the Leadership, Organizations, and Communication (LOC) area challenge students to stretch their understanding of human behavior in organizations and to develop their abilities as leaders and communicators. They are both researchers and teachers of this work: their scholarship on leadership, organizational behavior and communication directly shapes what happens in the classroom, just as classroom practice sharpens the questions they pursue in their research.
Coursework spans individual and interpersonal behavior, group and team dynamics, organizational structure and culture, human resource management, diversity and leading organizational change — as well as the strategic craft of communication that coordinates action, builds trust and inspires people to accomplish meaningful goals.
Across all Darden programs — Full-Time MBA, Executive MBA, and Doctoral — LOC faculty seek to help participants become responsible leaders and skilled communicators equipped to improve the organizations they lead.
Faculty
Gabrielle (Gabe) Adams
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Business Administration and, by Courtesy, Psychology (Social)
Peter Belmi
Scott C. Beardsley Professor of Business Administration
James G. Clawson
Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration Emeritus
Martin N. Davidson
Johnson and Higgins Professor of Business Administration
Jim Detert
John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration
Christopher M. Dobmeier
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Allison Elias
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Lillien Ellis
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
JR Hipple
Lecturer of Business Administration
Lynn A. Isabella
Frank M. Sands Sr. (M.B.A. ’63) Associate Professor Emerita of Business Administration
Renée Kathawalla
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Sean Martin
Donald and Lauren Morel Professor of Business Administration
Brian Moriarty
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Meghan R. Murray
Paul M. Hammaker Professor of Practice in Business Administration
Academic Director for Darden's Executive Program
Margaret Grundy Noland
Lecturer
Elizabeth A. Powell
Julie Logan Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Director, Compassionate Care Initiative
Roshni Raveendhran
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Laura Morgan Roberts
Frank M. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration
Steve Soltis
Lecturer
Melissa Thomas-Hunt
Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs
Robert F. Bruner Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Public Policy, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
Alex Velez
Lecturer
Jack R. Weber
Professor Emeritus of Leadership & Organizational Behavior
June A. West
Marjorie R. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration
