Lead When It Matters Most

Managers face enormous challenges in trying to understand how they can they better lead themselves, their teams or their business units. They need to be able to think clearly, make high-quality decisions, effectively manage daily stressors and emotions, bounce-back from setbacks, and perhaps most critically – they must constantly develop their in-the-moment behaviors to be able to work effectively within others inside and outside their organization.

Positive leadership focuses on developing the behaviors, attitudes and thinking skills necessary to allow managers to perform at their best in the everyday moments they face in the workplace -- because it is in these moments that leadership actually happens.  

Lee Newman is a Professor of Behavioral Science and Leadership at IE University and IE Business School in Madrid. He is currently serving as Dean of IE's School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Dean of Innovation and Behavior at IE Business School. He earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MBA and a Masters in Technology Policy from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelors magna cum laude and with honors in Engineering from Brown University.