Lynn Perry Wooten
Academic leader and management author
Lynn Perry Wooten is an academic who became president of Simmons University in 2020. She specializes in crisis leadership and coauthored The Prepared Leader.
1 summary 17 min of listening
American Born in the United States
About Lynn Perry Wooten
Lynn Perry Wooten is an American academic administrator and an expert on organizational development. She became the ninth president of Simmons University in 2020 and was the first Black person to hold the post. Before Simmons, she was the David J. Nolan Dean at Cornell University's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management from 2017 to 2020, and a professor of management and organizations there. She had earlier spent nearly 20 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Her work centers on positive leadership, crisis leadership, and diversity and inclusion. She earned her undergraduate degree at North Carolina A&T State University, then an MBA at Duke, and finally a doctorate at the University of Michigan. With Erika H. James, she wrote The Prepared Leader.