Mary Shapiro

Professorship at Harvard DCE

Biography

Harvard DCE

Mary Shapiro is the author of The HBR Guide to Leading Teams, which captures the strategies and stories from 25 years of working with teams. For more than 25 years, she has served as an Organizational Behavior faculty at Simmons University, an executive trainer, and a consultant to public and private companies. As Simmons faculty she has taught M.B.A and undergraduate students, and executives in leadership programs. Mary researches and publishes in the areas of teams, and leadership, specifically how social identities impact individuals and what organizations can do to build more inclusive work cultures. Mary developed The Communication Styles Diagnostic, an online tool that has been used by thousands of managers to improve their effectiveness with individuals and teams.

Throughout her career, Mary has worked with teams in Fortune 500 companies, private institutions, and non-profits, including organizations such as Harvard University, CVS, Liberty Mutual, and Merck Pharmaceuticals. Within these companies, she helped to launch teams with operational infrastructure and project plans; and intervene in teams in crises. She works with numerous Boards of Directors in strategic planning and currently serves as First Vice Chair of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts (GSEMA). She received her M.B.A. and M.S. Economics from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

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