Dr. Catherine H. Tinsley
The McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University

Catherine H. Tinsley is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and is the Executive Director of the Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Professor Tinsley is currently serving on the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security and is a CPMR fellow for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She is also a Zaeslin fellow at the college of Law and Economics, University of Basel.

She has received several grants from: NASA and the National Science Foundation for her work on decision making and risk and from the Department of Defense and Army Research Office for her work on modeling culture’s influence on negotiation and collaboration. She is a past Board member and past Division Chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management and a past Board member and past Program Chair of the International Association of Conflict Management.

She studies how such factors as: culture, gender, reputations, stereotypes, and negotiator mobility influence how people negotiate and how they manage conflict. She also examines decision biases, particularly under conditions of risk and uncertainty. As well, she has examined how and why U.S. based management theories do and do not translate across national cultures.

She is, or has been, on the editorial board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Academy of Management Journal, International Negotiations: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and International Journal of Conflict Management. She has published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, American Sociological Review, Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies, Management and Organizational Research, Research on Negotiations in Organizations, Negotiation Journal, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, International Negotiation: A journal of Theory and Practice, and International Perspectives on Organizational Justice. Her work has been translated for practitioners in the Academy of Management Executive.

Dr. Tinsley has conducted numerous negotiations, conflict resolution, and leadership training seminars for various organizations including: the Staff of the U.S. Senate, Rolls Royce N.A., Gucci, Sprint-Nextel, Nextel, Verizon Avenue, the World Bank, DPT Laboratories, Ferro, Lamson & Sessions, Rhode & Schwarz, the International Securities Management Association, the General Clinical Research Center, and the Korean International Trade Association. She has also run numerous “open enrollment” negotiations trainings for managers of a variety of companies, and within a variety of cultures, including: Germany, Japan, Korea, Slovenia, Hong Kong, India and Mexico.

She has collaborated with the White House and U.S. State Department to execute a woman-to-woman mentorship summit. Moreover, she partnered with the U.S. State Department and the Council of Women World Leaders to convene the first ever world-wide meeting of the Ministers of Women’s Affairs.