Scholarship and Biography
Jody Hoffer Gittell is Professor of Management at Brandeis University where she teaches Research Methods, Organizational Theory, Strategic Human Resource Management & People Analytics, and the Relational Coordination Master Class. She is Executive Director of the Relational Coordination Collaborative and CEO of Relational Coordination Analytics. She has published nearly one hundred scientific articles and chapters. She's published six books including The Southwest Airlines Way (McGraw-Hill); High Performance Healthcare (McGraw-Hill), Transforming Relationships for High Performance (Stanford University Press); Relational Analytics (Sage Publications); Up in the Air (Cornell University Press); and Sociology of Organizations: Structures and Relationships (SAGE Publications). She is currently working on Healthcare Management and Human Well-Being in a Turbulent Era (Edward Elgar Publishing) with Drs. Amanda Brewster, Ingrid Nembhard and Victoria Parker.
Dr. Gittell speaks frequently to scholar and practitioner audiences about developing the relational capacity to achieve desired outcomes for their organizations and ecosystems. She is Chair of the Academy of Management’s Organization Development and Change Division, and Vice Chair of the Board for Greater Seacoast Health. She earned her BA from Reed College, her MA in Political Economy from The New School, and her PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.