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.
Her research examines how identity, status, and social position shape collaboration and conflict within and between groups. She studies how people interpret social difference, and how organizational norms, tools, and interventions can help people work across lines of difference in ways that support belonging, learning, and effective collaboration. Her methods include lab experiments, field experiments and interventions, and inductive qualitative research conducted in collaboration with organizations.
Yamamoto’s dissertation, “What’s in It for Me?”: Toward the Personal Case for Diversity, received the Ralph Alexander Best Dissertation Award and the Best Dissertation Proposal Award from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal. Kendall holds a Ph.D. in Management from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Entrepreneurship from the University of Washington. Before graduate school, she worked in leadership development consulting.