Maria Prats

Maria has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Organizational Governance and Culture from The University of Navarra. Her dissertation is about human motivations, specifically, altruistic motives, their conceptualization, nature, sources, and repercussions on human well-being and organizations. Her research is focused on the different types of motivation and their impacts on leadership, teamwork, trust, ethics, and well-being.

Maria is an instructor at Northwestern University for courses on leadership, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Previously, she joined the Busch School of Business at the CUA in 2017, teaching Management and Digital Marketing at the undergraduate level.

She worked in managerial roles in Higher Education, as an Executive MBA Associate Director and Manager of the Career Management module at the IESE Business School. She also worked in private banking as an Advisor and Portfolios Manager, in a marketing consultancy as a Business Developer, and in the retail sector as a Regional Director.