Christopher G. Myers, PhD is the inaugural Peetz Family Professor of Leadership and Professor of Management & Organization at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where he is also the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership, and holds joint faculty appointments in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Chris’s research and teaching focus on individual learning, leadership development, and innovation, with particular attention to how people learn vicariously and share knowledge in health care organizations and other knowledge-intensive work environments. His work has been published in premier academic journals in the fields of management and medicine as well as in leading practitioner publications and editorials. His research has been featured in many popular media outlets and recognized with scholarly awards from a variety of national and international organizations. In 2022, Poets & Quants named Chris as one of the top 40 business school professors under 40 world-wide.
Chris has held multiple leadership roles within the Academy of Management and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries and as a Representative-at-Large for the Organizational Behavior Division. Chris teaches courses on leadership and organizational behavior in many different formats, from outdoor leadership development expedition courses with MBA students to executive education courses on leadership and management in health care. He also speaks and consults regularly for organizations and leaders from a range of industries, various local and national government agencies, and leading academic medical centers and emergency services teams.
Chris’s research and teaching focus on individual learning, leadership development, and innovation, with particular attention to how people learn vicariously and share knowledge in health care organizations and other knowledge-intensive work environments. His work has been published in premier academic journals in the fields of management and medicine as well as in leading practitioner publications and editorials. His research has been featured in many popular media outlets and recognized with scholarly awards from a variety of national and international organizations. In 2022, Poets & Quants named Chris as one of the top 40 business school professors under 40 world-wide.
Chris has held multiple leadership roles within the Academy of Management and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries and as a Representative-at-Large for the Organizational Behavior Division. Chris teaches courses on leadership and organizational behavior in many different formats, from outdoor leadership development expedition courses with MBA students to executive education courses on leadership and management in health care. He also speaks and consults regularly for organizations and leaders from a range of industries, various local and national government agencies, and leading academic medical centers and emergency services teams.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Chris served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School as an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior. He earned his PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and his BS in business administration with highest honors and highest distinction from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Before attending graduate school, he worked as an outdoor expedition leader and martial arts instructor in his home state of North Carolina.