Leigh Thompson

Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is the director of High Performance Negotiation Skills Executive program, the Kellogg Leading High Impact Teams Executive program and the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center. She also serves as the co-director of the Navigating Work Place Conflict Executive program and the Constructive Collaboration Executive program. Thompson's research has been focused on the topics of negotiation, group decision making, analogical reasoning and creativity. She has written over 130 scientific articles and book chapters. She is the author and editor of eleven books including Negotiating the Sweet Spot: The Art of Leaving Nothing on the Table, Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration, Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits, Making the Team: A Guide for Managers, The Mind And Heart of the Negotiator and The Truth about Negotiation. Thompson is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Education Thompson received a B.S. in Speech from Northwestern University in 1982 followed by an M.A. in Education from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. Subsequently, she returned to Northwestern University where she received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1988.