Homa Bahrami, PhD

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 UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, an executive teaching fellow and faculty director for the Innovation Boot Camp (Japan) and New Manager Boot Camp programs at UC Berkeley Exec Ed, and has served on the Board of the Haas Center for Teaching Excellence.

She is the co-author of a seminal 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.

As one of the most sought after and active faculty directors in Berkeley Exec Ed, Homa teaches in both custom and open enrollment engagements globally including the US, France, Japan, and Norway.

Expertise and Research Interests

• Impact of AI on Organizational Systems
• Dynamic Leadership
• Enterprise Flexibility and Adaptation
• Leading Global Knowledge Workers
• Orchestrating Geo-distributed Teams
• Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship 
• Transformational Change