WOMEN’S STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Seppälä graduated from Yale (BA), Columbia (MA), and Stanford (PhD). She consults with Fortune 500 leaders and employees on building a positive organization and has spoken at TEDx Sacramento, TEDx Hayward, and at companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Bain & Company, Ernst & Young, as well as a United States Congressional Hearing. Seppälä is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Fulfillment Daily, a popular news site dedicated to the science of happiness, and author of The Happiness Track.

Canales graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana (BA) and MIT (MBA and PhD). He is the teacher of the Innovator’s Perspective at Yale SOM, and conducts research at the intersection of organizational theory and institutional theory, with a special focus on the role of institutions for economic development. Specifically, Canales studies how individuals’ backgrounds, professional identities, and organizational positions affect their relationships to existing structures and the strategies they pursue to change them. His work contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that allow institutions to operate and change. Canalas has acted as an adviser to the Mexican government on the US-Mexico bilateral relationship and sits on the board of the trustees of the Nature Conservancy, as well as on the advisory board of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.

Brooks is a life-long experiential learner with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches and advises on the subject of everyday leadership, and is passionate about creating more courageous communities — especially within organizations. Brooks specializes in large-scale culture change projects that focus on individual and collective leadership effectiveness in business. Her MBA elective, Interpersonal Dynamics, is one of the most in-demand courses at Yale School of Management.

With a PhD from Columbia University, King is interested in social networks, social influence, and team dynamics. Her research has covered various topics from the role that networks play in addressing opioid abuse and the loneliness epidemic to the behaviors necessary for large-scale organizational change. She’s also the author of Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection. Her research and book have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio.

Kraus is a social psychologist and specialist in the study of inequality, with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His current work explores the behaviors and emotional states that maintain and perpetuate economic and social inequality in society. He also studies the emotional processes that allow individuals and teams to work together more effectively. Kraus’ research has appeared in Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He currently teaches the courses Power and Politics and Global Virtual Teams in the Yale SOM core curriculum, and is also the director of the university’s summer internship in organizational behavior.