Joyce Osland, Ph.D.

Joyce Osland, Ph.D., is the Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership and the Executive Director of the Global Leadership Advancement Center at San Jose State University.  Joyce co-founded the Global Leadership Lab in the College of Business at San Jose State University, and is an internationally known specialist in international management with a focus on global leadership, Latin America, and organization development. Her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior was earned at Case Western Reserve University. A former president of the Western Academy of Management, Joyce has won numerous awards for teaching, research, and leadership. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Army Research Institute since 2005.

Joyce’s research interests — global leadership development, expert cognition in global leaders, cultural sensemaking, and repatriate knowledge transfer — focus on practical ways to improve global skills and organizations. She has over 60 publications — research articles in leading academic journals like the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Human Resource Management as well as practitioner articles, book chapters, and cases. Her first book, The Adventure of Working Abroad: Hero Tales from the Global Frontier (Jossey-Bass, 1995), was used in corporate training programs for expatriates. Joyce is currently working on the ninth edition of her two textbooks, The Organizational Behavior Workbook: An Experiential Approach and The Organizational Behavior Reader.

Joyce lived and worked overseas for 14 years in 7 different countries, mostly in Latin American and West Africa. She worked in the field of international development as a program manager, trainer, and consultant and also spent three years as a full-time faculty member and consultant at INCAE (The Central American Institute of Business Administration and Latin America’s top business school) in Costa Rica. Joyce is a visiting professor in graduate programs all over the world.

Due to her international reputation in experiential learning, Joyce has designed and taught hundreds of executive education workshops. She has been training executives and trainers in global leadership for a decade. Consulting clients during the last 20 years include General Motors, Standard Fruit, the World Intellectual Property Organization (United Nations), Costa Rica’s Ministry of Tourism, Bestfoods, and Spansion.