Full Interview – Vanessa Druskat

Vanessa Druskat, an award-winning researcher and leading expert on team leadership advises leaders in some of the world’s top organizations. Her three decades of field research examining team cultures that inspire high-performing collaboration produced the Team Emotional Intelligence (Team EI) model. She and her colleagues have used the model globally to teach leaders how to build higher-performing teams. Vanessa is passionate about convincing leaders that under the right conditions people are wired for collaborative teamwork. So, to stop trying to fix people and start building emotionally intelligent team cultures that inspire teamwork. Also an award-winning teacher, she serves on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics in Durham, New Hampshire, USA.