Laura Morgan Roberts

About

Laura Morgan Roberts, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist who cultivates strength-based practices with current and aspiring leaders seeking extraordinary performance and personal fulfillment in diverse organizations. She is the founder of a boutique consulting firm, The Alignment Quest Enterprise, LLC. Laura is also Frank M. Sands Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. As a professor of organizational behavior, Laura has previously served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Antioch University, the University of Michigan, the Wharton School, Simmons School of Management, and Georgia State University. Laura engages her students and clients in designing personal practices and organizational systems that enable people to contribute maximally from a position of strength. She has published her research on authenticity, identity, diversity, and strengths in over 50 journal articles, book chapters and in her edited books: Race, Work and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience (2019) - Folio Award winner; Positive Organizing in a Global Society (2015); , Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations (2009). Author of The Alignment Quest Toolkit, based on Laura's co-authored Reflected Best Self Exercise, which has been used by hundreds of thousands of leaders in companies and schools around the world. You can find the latest edition of The Alignment Quest toolkit here: https://www.amazon.com/Alignment-Quest-Toolkit-Activating-Selves/dp/. Specialties: When you enter the workplace, do you leave a piece of yourself behind? My work helps people to uncover their deepest passions and core strengths, which is the key to full engagement and personal fulfillment. My research, teaching, consulting and public speaking are designed to help people learn more about the aspects of identity that we value and embrace, and to develop strategies for drawing upon identity-based resources and experiences to create value.