Homa Bahrami

Senior Lecturer | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES

Expert on organizational flexibility and dynamic leadership

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Areas of Expertise (8)

Dynamic Leadership

Organizational Flexibility

Leading Multi-cultural Knowledge Workers

Orchestrating Geo-distributed Teams

Impact of Technology on Organizational Design

Organizational Innovation for Globalization

Enterprise Adaptation & Flexibility

Transformational Change

About

Homa Bahrami is an international educator, advisor, board member, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility, team alignment, and dynamic leadership in global, knowledge-based industries. She is a senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a faculty director at the Haas Center for Executive Education, and has served on the Board of the Haas Center for Teaching Excellence.

She is the co-author of a major textbook (with Harold Leavitt, Stanford University), ”Managerial Psychology: Managing Behavior in Organizations," published by the University of Chicago Press, and translated into many languages. Her latest book, “Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises,” (second edition published by Springer and co-authored with Stuart Evans, Carnegie Mellon) focuses on practical approaches for strategizing, organizing, and leading knowledge workers based on their collective experience and field research in Silicon Valley during the past 30 years.

Bahrami has served on the boards of directors of three public technology companies and has been a member of all three board committees: audit, compensation, and governance. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and is active in executive education and executive development in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

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Education (3)

Aston University: PhD, Organizational Behavior

Aston University: MSc, Industrial Administration

Hull University: BA with Honors, Sociology & Social Administration

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Selected External Service & Affiliations (8)

Member of the Board of Directors, Fabrinet (2012-present)
Member of the Board of Directors, FEI Inc. (2012-2016)
Member of the Board of Directors, FormFactor, Inc.
Director, Pedagogy, Inc.
Advisory Director, Securitas Capital
Member, Advisory Board: Institute for Growth & Innovation, Icarian, Kadiri, Green Border, Mercer Tech
Member, Advisory Board: HEAL, UCSF
Advisor and executive educator for global and high tech companies in the US and Europe

Positions Held (1)

At Haas since 1986

1995 – present, Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business 2006 – present, Faculty Director, Berkeley Executive Education, Haas School of Business 2009 – 2014, Advisory Board, Center for Teaching Excellence, Haas School of Business 2003-2004 & 2017 Guest Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 1999-2000, Guest Professor, University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany 1986 – 1995, Lecturer, Haas School of Business 1984 – 1988, Research Associate, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University 1982 – 1984, Postdoctoral Fellow & Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Media Appearances (7)

How to Lead When the Pace of Change Feels Relentless

From Day One online

2021-11-05

Every employee has faced distinct challenges and gained insights from navigating the pandemic. The key for leaders is to tap into those personalized insights to help inform company decisions—a bottom-up approach, says Senior Lecturer Homa Bahrami. She suggests tapping into employees’ sentiments and collective experiences by asking what worked, and what didn’t, as they’ve navigated their own personal transitions.

Pandemic keeps disrupting Sonoma County employers’ on-site work plans

North Bay Business Journal online

2021-08-13

Senior Lecturer Homa Bahrami is not surprised companies in Sonoma County are delaying going back to the office or rolling back to predominantly remote work. They’re just following the lead of “bellwether” companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple. For workplace planning, the pandemic has caused a “one step forward, two steps back” approach, she said.

How to re-invent yourself and your career during the 'great resignation', experts weigh-in

ABC15 Arizona online

2021-07-27

Post-pandemic, the "normal" workplace is no more. “This is not just a short-term issue,” said Senior Lecturer Homa Bahrami. “In the long term we’ll see more fluidity in the way the workforce will operate.”

In post-pandemic workplace reshuffle, some in Sonoma County switch career paths

The Press Democrat online

2021-06-25

Companies and workers are continuing to rethink what they’re doing, and reflecting on the future of work. "I don’t think post-pandemic we’ll go back to what it was like in late 2019 or early 2020,” said Homa Bahrami, a member of the Haas professional faculty. “I think there’s a fundamental shift in society. I don’t see the workforce of the future being like it was pre-pandemic.”

How SF companies can defend against hackers as workforce returns to the office

The San Francisco Examiner online

2021-06-14

Employee mindsets are essential when thinking about their resilience to cyber attacks, the author writes. Senior Lecturer Homa Bahrami said “Younger people are more interested in getting back and interacting with their co-workers while those with young families want more flexibility,” she said. “Everyone is in a different place and faces different circumstances.”

What the Air Force Can Teach American Business

Fortune online

2016-07-03

"Not only does this system demonstrate the value of assigning people to a task based on their experience and expertise, it also offers younger officers crucial management and leadership skills via experiential learning. 'This is a great opportunity to develop future leaders on the job,' said Dr. Homa Bahrami, senior lecturer at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business..."

The pandemic is driving disruption, innovation and ‘a new reality’ at work

Berkeley News online

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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