Brief Biography

BIO

Linda S. Henderson, Ph.D.

Dr. Linda Henderson is Assistant Professor and Director of the Project Management Program in the College of Professional Studies. She has developed and teaches courses in project management and organizational behavior, which include projects as strategic initiatives, project initiation and decision making, complexity and adaptability issues for project management, organizational communication, and group process and decision-making.

Linda is an active researcher in project management and communication, and complexity theory in organizations. Her research has been published in Emergence: Complexity and Organization, Organization Development Journal, International Journal of Project Management, Management Communication Quarterly, Psychological Reports, Western Journal of Communication and the Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings. She also has a co-authored chapter in the forthcoming reader, Interpreting human experiential space: Bringing a complexity approach to social inquiry. Linda has been an invited researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, a multidisciplinary scientific research community pursuing frontiers of knowledge. She has also presented her research at several conferences and received two consecutive Best Competitive Paper awards from the Organizational Communication Division of the Academy of Management.

Linda complements her academic responsibilities with twelve years of full-time experience in business and industry where she worked as an internal and external consultant in project management, organizational effectiveness, change management and business process reengineering. She also has managed web-based learning projects in the high tech industry.