Rate My Professor Katie Badura

Katie Badura is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she also serves as the Associate Faculty Director of the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact. She earned her Ph.D. in Organization and Human Resources Management from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2019, M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Iona College in 2014, and B.A. in Psychology from Iona College in 2013. Since joining Georgia Tech following her doctoral studies, she advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and received tenure in Spring 2025. Badura teaches leadership development and organizational behavior at the graduate level, undergraduate human resources management, and executive education programs on leading high-performing teams and organizational change.

Her research examines leadership emergence and individual differences, investigating how personality traits and disability status affect leader emergence processes, employee outcomes, team dynamics, and firm performance. Badura's publications appear in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and Psychological Bulletin. Notable works include "Gender and Leadership Emergence: A Meta-Analysis and Explanatory Model" (Personnel Psychology, 2018), "Motivation to Lead: A Meta-Analysis and Distal-Proximal Model of Motivation and Leadership" (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2020), "Leadership Emergence: An Integrative Review" (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022), "Gender, 'Masculinity,' and 'Femininity': A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Agency and Communion" (Psychological Bulletin, 2021), and "A Theoretical Integration of Leader Emergence and Leadership Effectiveness: Over, Under, and Congruent Emergence" (Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2024). She received the 2023 Rising Star Early Career Award from the Network of Leadership Scholars and was named a Poets&Quants 2022 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professor. Badura serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, contributing to the advancement of leadership and individual differences research in organizational contexts.