Aneeta Rattan

Dr. Rattan is an expert on mindsets, diversity, and belonging in organisations, focusing on solving three diversity challenges that nearly all organisations face. First, she studies how mindsets can bridge belonging gaps in the workplace. Second, she investigates the dynamics around speaking up about bias at work, and how to overcome the myriad pressures to remain silent. Third, she reveals how organisation's rhetoric celebrating diversity can unintentionally backfire, undermining their diversity goals. Her research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Applied Psychology.

At London Business School, Dr. Rattan teaches about diversity, leadership, motivation, mindsets, and organisational culture, and she launched the School's first elective on diversity in organisations. She has won the MBA Core Teaching Award, the LBS School-wide Teaching Award, and was named a Poets&Quants Favorite MBA Professor. Her case Satya Nadella at Microsoft (with Herminia Ibarra) was the overall winner for the case centre awards, and her case Ros Atkins and the 50:50 Project at the BBC was a finalist for the same award.

After growing up in Florida, Dr. Rattan completed her undergraduate at Columbia University in New York and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral work at Stanford University. She has contributed to Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, New York Times, Behavioural Scientist, and National Public Radio. She is a Fellow of APS and SPSP, and currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition.