About
Kendall Yamamoto is an organizational behavior researcher and postdoctoral research associate at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She examines how judgments of value shape collaboration—and how messaging and team practices help people work across differences to improve belonging and performance.
Yamamoto’s research explores how organizations can advocate for diversity effectively across social groups, how gender influences cofounder selection among entrepreneurs, and how creative teams can work productively across status differences. Her methods span inductive qualitative research, lab experiments, and field experiments/interventions conducted in collaboration with organizations. She is the author of an award-winning dissertation, and her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal. Kendall earned her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s in Psychology and Entrepreneurship from the University of Washington, Seattle. Before graduate school, she worked in leadership development consulting.