Laura Guillén

Laura Guillén joined ESADE as Associate Professor in September 2019. She holds a combined BS. and MBA degree in Business Administration from ESADE. After finishing university, she joined the Unilever ice-cream division in Barcelona where she became passionate not only about ice-cream but about the psychological issues revolving around self- and social perceptions at work. With the hope to understand these 'people issues' better, she returned to the academic world and completed her PhD at ESADE in the area of organizational behavior.

While working on her PhD, she got a second BS. in Psychology and was trained as a professional coach. She won a Marie Curie Scholarship from the European Commission to join INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) as a post-doctoral fellow. Prior to joining ESADE, she was a faculty member at ESMT Berlin (Germany), where she received awards for teaching excellence.

She teaches classes on managing and developing people and organizational behavior to a variety of audiences, including MiMs, MBAs, EMBAs, and executives. She is also a consultant and a coach to companies on issues around leadership, personal development, diversity, and group dynamics.

Broadly speaking, her research focuses on understanding how self- and social perceptions are formed in the workplace and the consequences they entail for individual and group outcomes. Her work comprises three streams of research to explore these questions: leadership, diversity, and identity. Her work has been presented at numerous international research conferences and has been featured in management publications such as Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, Forbes and the Financial Times. Her research has been published in such academic journals as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, The Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Research Methods.

Areas of interest

• Identity, the bright and dark side of leadership, diversity, gender, age, social perceptions

Education

• Diploma in Organizational Clinical Psychology INSEAD (2008 — 2010)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ESADE Business School (2003 — 2007)
• Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) ESADE Business School (1993 — 1998)
• Bachelor's Degree Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.

Companies

• Associate Professor of People Management and Organization ESADE (2019)
• Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior ESMT Berlin (2010 — 2019)
• Post-Doc Fellow INSEAD (2007 — 2010)
• Responsible for business creation in Spain (Ben & Jerry's) Unilever (2000 — 2002)
• Supply Chain (area of planning, Frigo) Unilever (1998 — 2000)

Selected publications

Karelaia, N., Guillén, L. & Leroy , H. (2022). When being oneself is socially rewarded: Social identification qualifies the effect of authentic behavior at work. Human Relations, 75, .

Kakarika, M., Biniari, M., Guillén, L. & Mayo, M. (2022). Where does the heart lie? A multistage process model of entrepreneurial passion and role identity management. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43 (2), .

Guillén, L. (2021). When (and why) job self-efficacy does not promote career success: The roles of resilience and organizational prototypicality. Human Relations, 74 (8), pp. 1267-1295.

Guillén, L., Las Heras, M., Gaitán, I., Dinwoodie Dargin, David, Rodríguez Martínez, E., Kousi, S., Sim, S. & Correa Domenech, M. (2021). Bienestar y felicidad en el entorno laboral. Harvard Deusto Business Review, (37), pp. 28-45.

Guillén, L. & Kunze, F. (2019). When age does not harm innovative behavior and perceptions of competence: Testing interdepartmental collaboration as a social buffer. Human Resource Management, 58 (3), pp. 301-316.

Guillén, L., Mayo, M. & Karelaia, N. (2018). Appearing self-confident and getting credit for it: Why it may be easier for men than women to gain influence at work. Human Resource Management, 57 (4), pp. 839-854.

Guillén, L. (2018). Is the confidence gap between men and women a myth?. Harvard Business Review (web), (26/3/18), pp. 2-5.

Mayo, M., Van Knippenberg, D., Guillén, L. & Firfiray, S. (2016). Team diversity and categorization salience: Capturing diversity-blind, intergroup biased, and multicultural perceptions. Organizational Research Methods, 19 (3), pp. 433-474.

Batista-Foguet, J., Sipahi Dantas, A., Guillén, L., Martínez Arias, R. & Serlavós Serra, R. (2016). Design and evaluation process of a personal and motive-based competencies questionnaire in Spanish-speaking contexts. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 19 (-), pp. 1-12.

Guillén, L., Mayo, M. & Korotov, K. (2015). Is leadership a part of me? A leader identity approach to understanding the motivation to lead. The Leadership Quarterly, 26 (5), pp. 802-820.

Karelaia, N. & Guillén, L. (2014). Me, a woman and a leader: Positive social identity and identity conflict. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 125 (2), pp. 204-219.

Guillén, L. & Saris, W. (2013). Competencies, personality traits, and organizational rewards of middle managers: A motive-based approach. Human Performance, 26 (1), pp. 66-92.

Guillén, L., Coromina Soler, L. & Saris, W. (2011). Measurement of social participation and its place in social capital theory. Social Indicators Research, 100 (2), pp. 331-350.

Ibarra, H., Snook, S. & Guillén, L. (2010). Identity-based leader development. In N. Nohria & R. Khurana (Eds.), Handbook of leadership theory and practice: A Harvard Business School centennial colloquium, pp. 657-678. Harvard Business School.

Kets de Vries, M., Guillén, L., Korotov, K. & Florent-Treacy, E. (Eds.), (2010). The coaching kaleidoscope: Insights from the inside. Palgrave MacMillan.

Guillén, L. (2009). How can we make sense of emotional and social competencies within organizational settings?. In C. E. J. Härtel, N. M. Ashkanasy & W. J. Zerbe (Eds.), Emotions in groups, organizations and cultures, pp. 1-21. Emerald.

Kets de Vries, M., Guillén, L. & Korotov, K. (2009). Organizational culture, leadership, change and stress. In C. L. Cooper, J. Campbell Quick & M. J. Schabracq (Eds.), International handbook of work and health psychology, pp. 411-426. Wiley-Blackwell.

Guillén, L., Saris, W. & Boyatzis, R. (2009). The impact of social and emotional competencies on effectiveness of Spanish executives. Journal of Management Development, 28 (9), pp. 771-793.

Guillén, L. & Ibarra, H. (2009). Seasons of a leader's development: Beyond a one-size fits all approach to designing interventions . Academy of Management Proceedings, 2009 (1), pp. 1-6.

Batista-Foguet, J., Saris, W., Boyatzis, R., Guillén, L. & Serlavós Serra, R. (2009). Effect of response scale on assessment of emotional intelligence competencies. Personality and Individual Differences, 46 (5-6), pp. 575-580.

Batista-Foguet, J., Boyatzis, R., Guillén, L. & Serlavós Serra, R. (2008). Assessing emotional intelligence competencies in two global context. In V. K. Shanwal & M. K. Mandal (Eds.), Emotional intelligence: Theoretical and cultural perspectives, pp. 89-114. Nova Science Publishers.