Brooke Olson Vuckovic is a Clinical Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, where she teaches on a wide variety of leadership topics including the Moral Complexity in Leadership. Brooke received Kellogg's most prestigious teaching award, the L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year, in 2021. She has also received the Faculty Impact Award multiple times for her outstanding contributions in the classroom.
Brooke’s teaching is shaped by her multi-disciplinary background. She received her PhD from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where she also taught at the Booth School of Business in Business Communications. Her early research examined how religious leaders used stories to define who they are and what they value. She returns to this theme again and again in teaching and in her work with executives, as powerful storytelling fuels powerful leadership. Brooke recently authored a case study series (“Moral Complexity in Leadership”), which draws on literature to explore moral dilemmas that leaders face.
Brooke’s work at Kellogg reflects her deep interest in the complex tasks of leadership broadly speaking, but especially within multi-generational family enterprise and founder-led companies. In addition to her teaching, Brooke was the Academic Director for “Leading the Family Enterprise,” and the faculty director of coaching for Zell Fellows, Kellogg’s highly selective venture accelerator program.
Outside of Kellogg, Brooke has provided highly-personalized support to C-Suite executives as an executive coach for nearly two decades. Her work focuses on helping executives define their purpose and presence as leaders, stretching them to become more focused, non-reactive and clear on who they are, why they lead, and what the circumstances they face demand of them.
Brooke has lived in the Chicago area since she relocated from her hometown of Austin, Texas to attend graduate school. She has found a second home here with her husband, three daughters, and their hairless cat. Brooke is a voracious reader, confirmed camper, earnest cook, sporadic theater-goer and aspiring hiker.
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