Holly Schroth is a Senior Lecturer and Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches negotiations and conflict resolution and organizational behavior in the MBA, undergraduate and Executive Education programs. She has won several awards from MBA and undergraduate students for teaching excellence and was voted “favorite professor” by a BusinessWeek online poll, as well as one of the top 40 undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
In addition to teaching, she is a trainer, consultant and keynote speaker on negotiation and leadership issues to a variety of organizations in the United States and abroad.
She has published several articles on negotiation and procedural justice in leading journals and is one of the leading authors of negotiation exercise materials which are used worldwide by educators and trainers. She is Director of Negotiation and Team Resources, a non-profit that supports the development and distribution of resources to facilitate teaching negotiation, conflict management, and teamwork.
Holly received a MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has also taught at Santa Clara University, Saint Mary’s College of California, and Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., she worked in a variety of functional areas in both small and large business organizations as well as in the non-profit sector.