Professor Ronit Kark

About me:

Ronit Kark is a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University. She is also a part time Distinguished Research Professor at the Business School at Exeter University, UK and an affiliated scholar at the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons College, Boston. She is the founder and was the first director of the Graduate Gender Program ‘Gender in the Field: Linking Feminist Theory and Practice’, at Bar-Ilan University. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include leadership and followership, positive relationships and relatedness in organizations, identity and identification processes, gender and leadership, and leading for creativity. Her work was published in leading journals including: AMR, AMA, LQ, JOOP, JOB, Organization, AMLE and JAP.

Prof. Kark is an Associate Editor at the LQ and also served on the Editorial Boards of the AMJ, AMR, AMD, Frontiers in Psychology and IJMR. She was awarded the Best Paper Prizes by the International Leadership Association (ILA, 2005) and the International Academy of Management and Business (IAMB, 2012) and the Academy of Management Annals (AMA, 2016, #2). She also received the AOM 2012 Award for her Scholarly Contributions to Advancing Women in Leadership, the 2016 award for Iconic Leaders in Social Enterprise (by ALL Ladies League - Women Economic Forum, Delhi, India) and the 2016 prize for Outstanding Researcher at BIU. She recently as runner-up for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division’s Best Student-Led Paper (AOM, 2019). Her co-authored book on Creative Leadership was chosen by the Forbes Magazine Best Book Selection as one of the 10 best books on this topic in the world for 2018. She consults to organizations (private, public sector and NGOs) on leadership development and on enhancing socially responsible leadership and serves voluntarily on the advisory committees and boards of NGOs that aim to enhance social change and equity.

Nationality: Israeli

• Leadership
• Organizational identity and identification
• Gender in organizations
• Leadership and creativity
• Positive connections and relationships in organizations

• Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology