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Dr. Christine Porath

Visiting faculty member at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a consultant

Dr. Christine Porath is a visiting faculty member at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University as well as a consultant working to help people and communities thrive. Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, World Bank, World Health Organization, International Monetary Fund, Genentech, Ford, Marriott, National Institute of Health, Cleveland Clinic, 3M, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Justice and the National Security Agency.

Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, McKinsey Quarterly, and The Washington Post. She has taught in various executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown and University of Southern California (USC), where she was a faculty member at Marshall School of Business.

She is the author of Mastering Community, and Mastering Civility and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Christine’s work has been featured worldwide, including on 20/20, Today, Fox News, CNN, BBC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.

Before getting her doctorate, she worked for International Management Group (IMG), a leading sports management and marketing firm. Porath received her doctorate from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as well as the women’s basketball and soccer teams.