Rae André

Rae André is an award winning environmental author and speaker, and Professor Emeritus of leadership and sustainability in the D'Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

Her book Lead for the Planet: Five Practices for Confronting Climate Change (The University of Toronto Press, 2020) draws on social science to help Team Humanity make effective decisions about addressing the climate crisis. This book is written for a popular audience and also anchors university courses in climate leadership, strategy, and innovation. It was longlisted for Management Book of the Year 2021 by the Chartered Management Institute, the UK's 143,000 plus membership community for "both today's leaders and the next generation."

Dr. André is the 2021 recipient of the Teaching Award of the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the 18,000--member Academy of Management. In 2021 she also contributed to the Best Professional Development Workshop of the Management Education Development Division of the Academy of Management: "Preparing the Manager for Climate Change: From Awareness to Action," with Loren Albareda, Florian Kapmeier, Jennifer Leigh, and Petra Molthan-Hill.

An organizational psychologist, Dr. André is the recipient of the 2019 David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, which acknowledges "consistently demonstrated achievement over a lifetime, focusing on teaching and learning excellence."

A best-selling author, Dr. André's trade books include Take Back the Sky: Protecting Communities in the Path of Aviation Expansion (Sierra Club Books), Positive Solitude (Harper Collins), and The 59-Second Employee: How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager (co-authored with Peter D. Ward, Houghton Mifflin). Her academic books include Organizational Behavior: An Introduction to Your Life in Organizations (Prentice Hall), Researchers Hooked on Teaching: Noted Scholars Discuss the Synergy Between Teaching and Research (co-edited with Peter J. Frost, Sage), and Homemakers, the Forgotten Workers (The University of Chicago Press).