Ellen Van Oosten

Ellen B. Van Oosten, PhD is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Faculty Director of
Executive Education at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Van Oosten is also Director of the Coaching Research Lab, a scholar-practitioner collaboration
to advance coaching research she founded with colleagues Richard Boyatzis, PhD, and Melvin
Smith, PhD in 2014.

As an instructor, Ellen teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, Master of Positive Organization
Development and executive education programs. She regularly delivers coaching and leadership
development programs for organizations including Sherwin-Williams, Fortune Brands Innovation,
Fifth Third Bank, JM Smucker, Crown Equipment and Sandia National Laboratories.

Ellen’s research agenda centers on the study of how individuals and organizations learn, change and
grow in sustained ways through coaching and development. This interest fuels her curiosity to study
topics such as executive coaching, coaching relationships, emotional and social intelligence,
leadership assessment and development, developmental relationships and the women’s leadership in
STEM fields. Van Oosten frequently speaks at events and conferences including the Academy of
Management, Women In Management, and the Institute of Coaching.

She has published numerous scholarly and practitioner articles in a variety of publications,
including Harvard Business Review, Leadership Quarterly, Management Learning, Academy of
Management Learning & Education, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Frontiers in
Psychology, Journal of Management Development, and Organizational Dynamics. She is the co-
author of the award-winning book, Helping People Change: Coaching for Lifelong Learning and
Growth, with colleagues, Richard Boyatzis, PhD and Melvin Smith, PhD.

Ellen is also a master coach and strives to inspire managers and leaders to reach their fullest
potential. She has twenty-nine years of experience as a coach, holding certifications as Board
Certified Coach (BCC) and Associate Certified Coach (ACC). She also directs and teaches
coaching in the Weatherhead School’s coach certificate programs.

She earned her PhD and MBA degrees from Case Western Reserve University and her BS Electrical
Engineering degree from the University of Dayton.