Lissa V. Young:  

Lissa is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the United States Military Academy, in West Point, New York. Lissa Young is a 1986 graduate of the United States Military Academy, and a former Army aviator. She flew CH-47D “Chinook” cargo helicopters, and served in aviation units all over the world. During her Army career Lissa served at West Point on the faculty of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership from 1996-1999. In her capacity as a faculty member, she served as the course director of PL300, the Academy’s core course in organizational leadership. After leaving the military in 2002, Lissa served as Raytheon Company’s lead sales representative for air traffic control systems in the Middle East. She managed accounts for all of the airports in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. It was during this time that Lissa served as a leadership development program consultant to Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government at the Center for Public Leadership working directly for David Gergen and Ron Heifetz. In the Fall of 2007, Lissa was awarded a Presidential Fellowship by Harvard University, and earned her doctorate in May of 2013. Lissa’s research spans three primary areas of interest. In her dissertation research, Lissa investigated the effects of interpersonal stereotyping and prejudice on the dynamics of high performance teams. She conducted her study using the teams competing in the Sandhurst competition, an international military skills competition held at West Point every year. The second aspect of her research is how war has influenced the development and direction of the discipline of Social Psychology in the United States. Specifically, she is interested in how the thought leaders who shaped the disc...Expand for more