Lize Booysen
Dr. Lize Booysen, DBL is full Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior. Dr. Booysen’s expertise is in cross-cultural and cross-national leadership, transformation and diversity management, leadership skills development, and organizational development. She is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of diversity, race, gender and leadership. Additionally, she is a management consultant internationally with corporate, non-profit and international organizations. And, she is a clinical psychologist with extensive clinical practice experience. Dr Booysen holds a doctorate in Business Leadership (1999, University of South Africa) as well as master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology (University of Johannesburg), Research Psychology and Criminology (University of Pretoria), all with distinction.
Lize was notably part of the international research team that conducted the 65-nation Global Leadership Organizational Effectiveness Study (GLOBE; 1993-2007). She was also one of the co-workers on Culture, Leadership and Organizations: The Globe Study of 62 Societies, edited by House, R.J; Hanges, P.J; Javidan, M; Dorfman, P.W and Gupta,V. (2004), London: Sage Publications, which was awarded the 2005 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace. Conferred by The Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP). She is co-author of the chapter, “Culture and Leadership in South Africa” in the GLOBE Anthology Book; Culture and leadership across the world: The GLOBE Book of in-depth studies of 25 societies, edited by Chhokar, J., Brodbeck, F. C., & House, R. (2007). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, which won the prestigious Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award in 2009, awarded by the International Psychology Division (52) of the American Psychological Association.
Lize also works with the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina, and has been involved in the 12-nation Leadership Across Differences (LAD) research project steered by the CCL, since 2003. She is one of the co-editors of the Case Book and Instructional Guide on Leadership Across Difference, by Pfeiffer in 2010.
Prior to coming to Antioch, Lize was full professor of Organizational Behavior and Leadership at the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa since 1992. She was also the Editor of the South African Journal of Labour Relations from 2006 to 2008.
Some of Lize’s many awards include the GLOBE Research Award (1997); Best Academic Achievement, University of South Africa (2004), and Excellent Teamwork Award, conferred by Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (2005). She is also included as one of 50 role models for South African women and as leadership expert in the book Inspirational Women @ Work, (2003).
