Contributor:
Audrey Murrell
I specialize in leadership, mentoring, ethics, and diversity
I am the associate dean of the University of Pittsburgh College of Business Administration and the director of the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership. Organizational leadership is a broad field, but my philosophy is simple. I focus on helping organizations to develop their most important asset: their people. Cultivating the leadership capacity of employees enhances total organizational performance, drives innovation and creates competitive advantage. My academic research and professional consulting for Fortune 500 companies has encompassed mentorship and sponsorship, business ethics and social responsibility, strengths-based leadership and issues related to gender and diversity. At the Berg Center, I oversee a portfolio of service-learning programs for our undergraduate and graduate schools that since 2004 have contributed more than 16,000 hours to community clients. Here I share commentary, stories and ideas about trends in organizational leadership, both in higher education and in the business community.