Dr. Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks is a behavioral scientist, cultural psychologist, and professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, where he holds an endowed chair. His research explores the role of emotion, culture, and group dynamics in organizational life, and focuses on a central question: what can we gain when we bring our most human capabilities to work?

For more than two decades, he has advised CEOs, C-Suite leaders, and teams in Fortune 500 firms, startups, and mission-driven organizations spanning 35 countries and wildly different worlds—from ad agencies and opera houses to factory floors, hospitals, and AI hyperscalers. His work is published in top peer-reviewed journals across behavioral science and management and has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, NPR, Fortune, BBC and CBS. The recipient of the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching Award, he is an elected Fellow of The Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and International Society for Research on Emotion. He is the author of the forthcoming book Human Mode (Harper Business; March 2027).

A native Californian, Jeffrey holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children. When he’s not in the classroom or on the page, he can usually be found pushing his limits in ultra-endurance cycling races.