Sheila Webber, PhD

Biography

Sheila Simsarian Webber received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from George Mason University. Prior to joining Suffolk University, she was an Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell, the University of Southern Maine, and Concordia University. Her current research interests include teamwork, project leadership, service innovation, and trust. Her consulting experience includes teamwork, leadership development, management assessment and development centers, 360-degree feedback, training and individual coaching.

Professor Webber has published papers in Business Horizons, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business and Psychology, Project Management Journal, Journal of Management Development, Human Performance, and Small Group Research. She has presented over 30 papers at numerous conferences including the Academy of Management and Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. She is a member of the Academy of Management.

Publications

Recent Intellectual Contributions

Webber, Sheila Simsarian, Jodi Detjen, Tammy MacLean, and Dominic Thomas. 2019. “Team Challenges: Is Artificial Intelligence the Solution?.” Business Horizons 62 (6): 741–50.

Payne, Stephanie C, Naber Andrew, and Sheila Webber. 2018. “The Relative Influence of Trustor and Trustee Individual Differences on Peer Assessments of Trust.” Personality and Individual Differences 128 (1): 62–68.

Detjen, Jodi, and Sheila Webber. 2017. “Strategic Shifts That Build Executive Leadership.” Business Horizons60 (3): 335–43.

Webber, Sheila, Regina O'Neill, and Karyn Dossinger. 2020. “The Empowering Leadership Project.” Journal of Management Education 44 (June): 342–61.

Intellectual Contributions

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