Dr. Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradhshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is an expert on leadership, achieving styles, crisis management, "hot groups" organizational behavior, and gender roles. Prof. Lipman-Blumen is director and co-founder of CGU's Institute for Advanced Studies in Leadership. She is president and co-founder, with the late Prof. Harold J. Leavitt, the Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, of the Connective Leadership Institute, a leadership development, research, and management consulting firm, in Pasadena, California. Professor Lipman-Blumen received her A.B. and A.M. degrees from Wellesley College, and her Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she did her dissertation under Professor Talcott Parsons. She spent one post-doctoral year at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon and a second post-doctoral year completing her studies in mathematics, statistics, and computer science, at Stanford University.