Kaylene McClanahan
Director of the Center for Executive Women and Lecturer of Management and Organizations
Dr. Kaylene J. McClanahan is the Director of the Center for Executive Women and a Lecturer of Management & Organizations at Kellogg. Kaylene leads Women’s Forum events for alumni and directs Kellogg’s Executive Education programs focused on women, including the Women’s Senior Leadership Program and the Women Director Development Program.
Kaylene has extensive experience consulting, coaching, and training organizational leaders. She has delivered more than 50 customized training programs on sales, negotiation, and organizational decision-making for clients across industries, including Google, Uber, United Airlines, Spotify, Amgen, and Siemens Healthineers. She has also developed original teaching materials and cases for companies like McDonald's, Nike, REI, and Gilead Life Sciences.
Kaylene completed her PhD at the Kellogg School of Management and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her award-winning research, which largely focuses on power dynamics, has been published in leading academic journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Kaylene is passionate about using her expertise to help women navigate challenges, advance their careers, and thrive at work. Across her teaching, training, and executive coaching, she strives to create experiences that are relevant, engaging, and ideally, fun.
