Elizabeth Umphress

Professor & Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow University of Washington - Foster School of Business

Dr. Umphress is a Full Professor and the Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Tulane University.

Dr. Umphress teaches Dynamics of Negotiations and Ethical Leadership to executive and MBAs at the University of Washington. She has extensive consulting and executive education experience. She has conducted executive education programs for companies such as Microsoft and ExxonMobil. She specializes in teaching executives Strategic Communications and Negotiations and Ethical Leadership. Her consulting work focuses on helping employees feel empowered and more productive in the workplace. She has worked with companies such as NASA, Citigroup, and Lockheed Martin.

Under the rubric of social justice research, Dr. Umphress pursues three primary branches of inquiry: ethics, organizational justice, and diversity. To date, in collaboration with co-authors, she has published twenty-eight peer-reviewed research articles. Of these, twelve are published in leading management journals in her field including one article in the Academy of Management Journal, two articles in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, five articles in the Journal of Applied Psychology, and four articles in Organization Science. Additionally, five of her articles are published in journals specific to her research area: Social Justice Research and Journal of Business Ethics.

With regard to teaching, she received the Hybrid MBA Excellence in Teaching Award (2020), Professor of the Year for Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship (2019) and the Evening MBA (2014) programs, and recognized as a Star Teacher for exemplary teaching every year since joining the faculty at the University of Washington.