Laura Morgan Roberts, Ph.D. is an educator, researcher and organizational consultant. She is the co-founder and senior partner of R-PAQ Solutions, LLC, an Atlanta-based research and consulting firm that brings strength-based practices to leaders who seek extraordinary performance and personal fulfillment.
As a professor of organizational behavior, Laura has served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School, the University of Michigan, the Wharton School, Simmons School of Management, and Georgia State University. Laura teaches executive, MBA, and undergraduate business and psychology courses in leadership, organizational behavior, group dynamics, talent management, diversity and negotiations. She is a research faculty affiliate of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (at U of M’s Ross School of Business) and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Gender in Organizations
(at Simmons School of Management).
Laura has published her work on authenticity, identity, diversity, and strengths in over 20 articles and book chapters in top tier research journals and practice-oriented journals such as the Academy of Management Review and Harvard Business Review. Her co-edited book, Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations, was released by Routledge Press in June, 2009.
Laura’s work guides people in aligning their personal and professional lives by cultivating more positive identities that reflect their best self. She facilitates the process of discovering the “Reflected Best-Self” by developing strengths, crafting careers and relationships that affirm contributions, and by learning about, from, and across dimensions of difference. Laura helps people to unlock the pathways by which they can become extraordinary by discovering their own and others’ potential to
create value.
A native of Gary, Indiana, Laura Morgan Roberts earned her BA in Psychology with highest distinction, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia. Laura then received her MA and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and daughter.