MBA - Area Focus Electives - Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Year after year, Darden alumni say that the most important classes they refer to in their day-to-day work are from the leadership and organizational behavior area.
Motivating and working well with others are key success factors for all business leaders and can be learned through both required and elective leadership and organizational behavior courses.
Required Course
Electives
- Bargaining and Negotiating
- Defining Moments
- Human Capital Consulting
- Leadership and Diversity through Literature
- Leadership Coaching
- Leadership, Diversity, and Leveraging Difference
- Leadership Learning Lab
- Leadership, Values, and Ethics
- Leading Strategic Change
- Leading Teams
- Leading with Influence
- Managerial Psychology
- Paths to Power
- The Spirit of the New Workplace
Please note: courses are subject to change each year. Consult the course directory for the most up-to-date course offerings.
Leadership and Organizational Behavior Faculty

Gabrielle (Gabe) Adams
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Business Administration and, by Courtesy, Psychology (Social)

Peter Belmi
Scott C. Beardsley Associate Professor of Business Administration

Martin N. Davidson
Johnson and Higgins Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean and Global Chief Diversity Officer

Jim Detert
John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration

Lillien Ellis
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Sean Martin
Donald and Lauren Morel Associate Professor of Business Administration

Melanie Prengler
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Roshni Raveendhran
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Laura Morgan Roberts
Frank M. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration

Melissa Thomas-Hunt
Vice Dean; Senior Associate Dean for the Residential Full-Time MBA Program & Special Advisor to the Dean on Connection, John D. Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
