Guillén, Laura

Laura Guillén joined ESADE as Associate Professor in September 2019.

She holds a combined BS. and MBA degree in Business Administration from ESADE.

After finishing university, she joined the Unilever ice-cream division in Barcelona where she became passionate not only about ice-cream but about the psychological issues revolving around self- and social perceptions at work. With the hope to understand these 'people issues' better, she returned to the academic world and completed her PhD at ESADE in the area of organizational behavior. While working on her PhD, she got a second BS. in Psychology and was trained as a professional coach.

She won a Marie Curie Scholarship from the European Commission to join INSEAD Fontainebleau, France as a post-doctoral fellow. Prior to joining ESADE, she was a faculty member at ESMT Berlin Germany, where she received awards for teaching excellence.She teaches classes on managing and developing people and organizational behavior to a variety of audiences, including MiMs, MBAs, EMBAs, and executives.

She is also a consultant and a coach to companies on issues around leadership, personal development, diversity, and group dynamics. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on understanding how self- and social perceptions are formed in the workplace and the consequences they entail for individual and group outcomes.

Her work comprises three streams of research to explore these questions: leadership, diversity, and identity. Her work has been presented at numerous international research conferences and has been featured in management publications such as Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, Forbes and the Financial Times. Her research has been published in such academic journals as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Research Methods.