Linda E. Ginzel

Linda E. Ginzel is a Clinical Professor of Managerial Psychology at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the founder of the Customized Executive Education program.

[1] Ginzel is also the co-founder and president of Kids in Danger, a nonprofit organization which works to protect and promote the welfare and rights of consumers regarding children's product safety.

She worked at Montgomery Ward, served as a hair salon receptionist, managed an apartment complex, and was a life insurance saleswoman.

[7] Ginzel established the Corporate Executive Education Program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

[7] In the past, she has taught courses on organizational behavior, interpersonal perception, attribution theory, and general & social psychology to both M.B.A. and Ph.D. students at Northwestern, Stanford, and Princeton.

Entrepreneurs do that everyday.”[10] In her negotiation courses, Ginzel encourages her students to: 1) look for tradeoffs to create value, 2) enlarge the pie before dividing, 3) adapt their strategy to their counterpart's style, and 4) practice 'conditional' cooperation.

[12] Source:[13] In Ginzel's Leadership Capital course, she challenges students to address questions such as: What makes a good executive?

Defining "leadership capital" as "the wisdom to decide when to manage and when to lead together with the courage and capacity to implement," Ginzel teaches a framework geared towards developing a strategy of knowing when to change and when to maintain the status quo.

[14] Ginzel decided to write the book after students from her leadership course began to ask for copies of class material to share with their coworkers and friends.

[24][25] In 2008, as members of the Advisory Committee on the Obama Transition Team, Ginzel and Keysar were instrumental in the creation of CPSC legislation that mandated changes in regulating children's products.

The legislation included a provision, named after their son Danny, that put into effect tougher safety standards and compulsory testing for durable children's products.