Ayse Yemiscigil

Ayse Yemiscigil, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business in the Leading People and Organizations area. She is a Research Affiliate with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the International Humanistic Management Association.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Dr. Yemiscigil's research focuses broadly on the topic of leadership and human flourishing. She studies what leaders should know, do, and be to create system-wide flourishing and foster well-being in their selves, teams, organizations, and societies.

Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Harvard Business Review, and featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, among other media outlets.

Dr. Yemiscigil received her Ph.D. from Warwick Business School and has been a postdoctoral research fellow at The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

• Reut Livne-Tarandach, Joan Ball, Poonam Arora, Ayse Yemiscigil, Jay Kandampully; “A 5C model of responsible service leadership: learning from living systems to play the infinite game,” Journal of Service Management, 2024, 35 (4), 525–546.
• Ayse Yemiscigil, Dana Born, Scott Snook, Emily Pate; “Authentic leader(ship) development and leaders' psychological well-being: an outcome-wide analysis,” Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 2022, 43 (8), 1287–1307.
• Ayse Yemiscigil, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Ashley Whillans; “Economic Volatility Moderates the Relationship Between Social Impact at Work and Job Satisfaction,” Academy of Management: Proceedings, 2022, 2022(1).