Author Details
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, PhD (University of Texas, Austin) is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her research is on how organizations and their members cope with uncertainty and unexpected surprises, and how organizations can be designed to be more reliable and resilient. She is currently investigating these issues in healthcare as well as in wild-land firefighting, oil and gas exploration, and other dynamic high-risk industries.
Honors and Distinctions include:
- Past Chairman of the Academy of Management Division of Managerial and Organizational Cognition.
- Editorial boards, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies
- Appointment by National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine to study workforce resilience in the Department of Homeland Security. The research was published in 2013 in a book titled: A Ready and Resilient Workforce for the Department of Homeland Security: Protecting America’s Front Line (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press).