Wendy is Professor of Management and Deutsch Family Fellow at the Alfred Lerner School of Business at the University of Delaware. She studies how we can adopt both/and approaches to more effectively navigate competing demands in our life and work – tensions between today and tomorrow, global and local, social missions and financial pressures, work and life, competition and collaboration, etc.. Her research has been published in top academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Research and Administrative Sciences Quarterly as well as in leading managerial journals such as Harvard Business Review. From 2016-2019, she served as an associate editor at the Academy of Management Journal. In 2018, Wendy received University of Delaware’s Mid-Career Excellence-In-Scholarship Award. In 2019 and 2020, Web of Science recognized Wendy as a Highly Cited Researcher for being among the top 1% of scholars with the most cited research.

Wendy teaches leadership, organizational behavior and business ethics. She has taught MBAs and undergraduates at University of Delaware, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania - Wharton. She won the MBA Teaching Award at the Lerner Business School in 2016 and 2019, and was runner-up for this award in 2018. Wendy founded and leads the Lerner Women’s Leadership Forum, a 3-day executive forum for mid-career women, as well as the Women’s Leadership Online Certificate Program. Wendy also engages with executive and senior leadership teams around the world, providing teaching, consulting and keynote talks to address the challenges of leadership, managing strategic paradoxes, and advancing in organizational change and innovation.

In 2016, Wendy co-founded the Women’s Leadership Initiative at University of Delaware, an initiative that works to advance gender equity from the classroom to the boardroom. In 2019, she received Delaware Today’s Women in Business Award.

Wendy earned her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Harvard Business School.  She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three children.