Leonard J. Glick

Senior Academic Specialist; Executive Professor, Management & Organizational Development
Leonard Glick
Campus location Boston
Phone 617.373.4720

Selected publications

  • Wertheim, E., Larson, B., Glick, L. (2018). Teaching the Basics of Negotiation in One Class, Management Teaching Review. MTR Management Teaching Review.
  • Glick, L. (2013). Running a Business: An Extremely Experiential Approach to Teaching Organizational Behavior. Business Education Innovation Journal, 5(1,).
  • Pizani, L., Glick, L. (2013). 5 Bad Habits of Highly Counterproductive Managers. CFA Magazine.
  • Carlozo, L., Glick, L. (2013). 5 Ways sales managers build productive teams. Yesware Blog.
  • Strauss, K., Glick, L. (2013). Seven Ways to keep your employees happy and working really hard. Forbes.com.
  • Shah, S., Glick, L. (2013). How to Motivate Employees. WSJ India.

Selected presentations

  • Glick, Leonard (Presenter & Author), Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, “Using In-class Competitions to Increase Student Motivation and Learning”, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, Asheville, NC, USA. (June 6, 2013).
  • Glick, Leonard (Presenter & Author), North America Case Research Association Annual Meeting, “Same Pay, Fair Pay, Performance Pay: What should Berens do?”, NACRA, Quincy, MA. (October 26, 2012).

Research & teaching interests

Leonard Glick teaches Organizational Behavior, Strategic Human Resource Management, Great Companies, and High Commitment Organizations. He is also on the faculty of the Design Management Institute where he teaches “Managing Creative Staff.”

Glick's experience, expertise, and interests include high-performance/high-commitment work systems. He has significant teaching and consulting experience in the design and implementation of organizations that combine streamlined business processes, empowerment, self-managing teams, learning, and other innovative practices to achieve significant improvements in business results.

Glick has lectured on “How to Decrease Training and Increase Learning,” an approach that helps people learn from their work as they work. His consulting and teaching often focus on culture, teams, and change. For example, he recently worked with the management team of an informatics group to increase their skill and sensitivity to the human side of organizational change.

Industry & academic experience

Before joining Northeastern, Glick had extensive industry experience. He was an external consultant affiliated with CSC/Index for three years and consulted on reengineering a major chemical company's manufacturing plants and a prominent research university's facilities organization. Before that, Glick was an organizational effectiveness consultant for Digital Equipment Corporation for 14 years, primarily focusing on employee development, executive education, high performance work systems, and Six Sigma.

Services to the profession

Among his civic responsibilities, Glick has been a member of the Board of Directors of Camp Bauercrest, a non-profit organization, since 1971 and formerly served on the School Committee of Wayland (MA) for six years.