Choosing Leadership Virtual Masterclass with Prof. Linda Ginzel

During this Choosing Leadership Virtual MBA Masterclass with Prof. Linda Ginzel, you will draft your own definition of leadership to guide you in developing a personalized path in deciding when to manage and when to lead.  

Clinical Professor of Managerial Psychology, Prof. Linda Ginzel, has been on the Chicago Booth faculty since 1992. She specializes in negotiation skills, managerial psychology, leadership and executive development. She has won numerous teaching awards across all the programs at Booth: the 2011 Faculty Excellence Award, the Inaugural Global Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013, named an Impact Professor by the class of 2014, and received the Hillel J. Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Award in 2019 and 2021.

By popular vote, Ginzel received the Phoenix Award from the class of 2020. In 2022, she was recognized as the faculty member who best demonstrates excellence in teaching at Booth with the Emory Williams Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching.

About the MBA Masterclass Series

• Experience the academic rigor of a Booth classroom in virtual sessions designed for prospective, admitted and incoming MBA students across all MBA Program formats, as well as alumni seeking to reengage with Booth's faculty. 
• Join members of Booth’s most notable faculty for interactive, real-time sessions that put you in the virtual classroom with other prospective Chicago Booth students. Designed exclusively for our MBA Masterclass series, course material will touch on today’s most pressing business issues while offering an introduction to the educational philosophy that sets Booth apart from every other MBA program in the world.