Susan (Sue) Ashford is the chair of the Management and Organizations group at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and holds the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professorship in the Management and Organization. She was previously on the faculty of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (1983-1991) and received her MS and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University.

Sue has published papers in the fields’ best journals in the areas of leadership development and leader effectiveness, middle management voice and issue selling, job insecurity, and individual proactivity (e.g., self-management and feedback seeking). Her research has been summarized as advice for managers in the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Business Review blog and New York Magazine. Sue has served as a consulting editor for the Academy of Management Journal and currently serves on its editorial board. In 2002, Sue was named a Fellow of the Academy of Management and was awarded the prestigious Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Management by that Association in 2017.