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After receiving her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University, Judi Neal worked 8 years full-time in industry, including 5 years as a manager for Honeywell. She has consulted to organizations for 24 years, and taught management at the University of New Haven and other universities for over 17 years. Judi is now Professor Emeritus at the University of New Haven.
She has served on the Boards of Directors of several professional, community, and academic organizations. Judi is President of Neal & Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on personal and organizational transformation. Her clients include Pfizer, Unilever, Sennheiser, Electric Boat, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Rodale Press, Rockport Company, Yankee Gas, Jackson Newspapers, and numerous smaller organizations.
As Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for Spirit at Work, Judi helps to provide resources, information and community to those whoare seeking greater integration of spirituality and work. The Center is a membership organization, and offers networking, publications, research, courses, and consulting to individuals and organizations. She has spoken at a wide variety of organizations and forums, including the United Nations, the World Business Academy, and the International Organizational Development Association, as well as numerous national and international conferences on spirituality in the workplace in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, The U.K., and Thailand.
Judi has been very active in professional organizations including the Academy of Management, where she helped to found the “Management, Spirituality, and Religion (MSR) Interest Group,” and is a Past Chair of this group. She was also active in The Eastern Academy of Management where she is a Fellow, and a Past-President, and in the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, where she served on the Board.
Judi has been featured in the mainstream press and television, and has published numerous articles on spirituality in the workplace and has edited several special editions of academic journals on the topic. She is a founding editor of the
Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, and is the author or editor of several books, including
Edgewalkers: People and Organizations that Take Risks, Create the Future, and Thrive on the Edge (Praeger, 2006),
Creating Enlightened Organizations (Palgrave, 2013),
The Spirit of Project Management (with Alan Harpham, Gower, 2012), and the
Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace (Springer, 2012).
