Dr. Elizabeth Luckman is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Gies College of Business and the founder of Golden Mean Growth, a leadership development practice dedicated to helping individuals grow as leaders and team members. Her work focuses on empowering people to solve problems more effectively and ethically while building meaningful connections with their work. 

At Gies, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, teamwork, problem-solving, and business foundations. In addition to her faculty role, she serves as the Director of Leadership Programs at the National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics within the Grainger College of Engineering. There, she contributes to program development aimed at advancing leadership in academic settings. 

In addition to her academic work, Elizabeth cultivated her leadership perspectives during nearly a decade in luxury retailing, working in merchandising, selling, and management. Knowing how to work with all kinds of people to achieve demanding objectives in the for-profit world animates her research, and facilitates its application.

Dr. Luckman holds a PhD in organizational behavior from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, an MBA from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, and a BA in Classical Civilization and English Literature from Wellesley College. She also earned a leadership coaching certificate from the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, aligning with her commitment to cultivating leaders and empowering individuals within organizations. She has lived in Scotland, Indonesia, and nine different states.

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