Brenda Ellington Booth is a Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations, Academic Director of Executive Education Programs, and Director of the Kellogg Leadership Coaching Program.
As Academic Director of Executive Programs, Professor Booth directs two general management programs including Kellogg’s Executive Development Program and the Kellogg Management Institute. She also directs the program Energizing People for Performance and various custom programs such companies such as USG, International Paper, Baloise Insurance, Aon Financial Services and Baker & McKinsey.
Professor Booth teaches courses in executive education on leadership, team-building, decision-making, change management, and energizing people for performance. She also designs and facilitates action learning workshops and coaches executives in leadership effectiveness. Professor Booth has taught or facilitated groups with companies including Ersnt & Young, Jefferson Wells, Baxter International, General Motors, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Chicago Public Schools, Kellogg’s Strategic Leadership Program and Kellogg’s Capacity Building Program.
In 2008, Professor Booth created the Kellogg Leadership Coaching program for motivated and committed full-time MBA students who desire to become global leaders of significance though coaching. Along with a team of professional coaches, she coaches MBA students in small groups. Professor Booth is certified executive coach.
In prior years at Kellogg, Professor Booth was awarded the Doctoral Teaching Award for Exceptional Teaching Performance, authored case studies on leadership and change management for the not-for-profit sector, and taught MBA courses including management and organization, negotiation, change management and leadership of non-profit organizations.
Before joining Kellogg, Brenda taught courses at Stanford University and wrote a case study on change management for the University of Michigan’s Graduate School of Management. As part of her dissertation research on strategic alliances Professor Ellington-Booth served as a consultant to the grocery industry on their ECR (Efficient Consumer Response) initiative in the late 1990’s. She delivered presentations to several nationwide grocery industry conferences and authored numerous educational case studies for mid- and senior-level executives on strategic, human resources and organizational issues in the grocery industry as it related to ECR.
Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Brenda accumulated several years of work experience in corporate settings in the functional areas of finance and marketing. She started her career at Home Box Office as a financial analyst and went on to publish an investors' report on the insurance industry for the former investment bank Salomon Brothers while obtaining her MBA from Stanford University. She also was an account executive with the advertising agency Leo Burnett for five years, servicing clients such as Kraft, Seven-Up, Heinz Pet Products, and Procter & Gamble.
Areas of Expertise
Employee Relations
Leadership
Organizational Change
Organizational Learning
Teams
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