Lori Homer

Adjunct

Phone:  206.296.5302

Office:  Pigott 432

Email:  homerl@seattleu.edu

Department:  Center for Leadership Formation

Web Address: N/A

Teaching Areas: : Leadership, L-EMBA

Professional History:

Lori Homer has been an executive coach for ten years. Her coaching emphasis includes leveraging 360° and personality feedback, leadership development and increasing personal effectiveness through developing emotional intelligence and mindful learning skills. Lori has worked with Seattle University’s “Leading With Dignity”™ executive leadership development program for the past six years. Lori also works as an independent consultant with a range of different organizations (small to large, not-for-profit, independent businesses, and multinational corporations) in implementing and assessing leadership performance and development initiatives. Lori is currently completing a project with a global multi-national corporation in which multi-rater peer and direct report feedback ties to executive bonuses. Lori has worked as a research director of a Ford Foundation-funded project tracking social scientists’ career paths and for the Boeing Company’s Leadership Center, where she coached executives and consulted on a number of projects focused on leadership development, work group effectiveness, and organizational culture change.

Lori completed her Ph.D. at the University of Washington Business School in 2004. Her dissertation “Status Characteristics and Institutional Legitimacy” won a national dissertation award from Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania’s Business School. Lori’s research interests include career paths and leadership development of professionals with a particular interest in women’s career progression.

Albers Faculty since Winter 2007