Michael Maccoby (March 5, 1933 – November 5, 2022) was an American psychoanalyst and anthropologist[1] globally recognized as an expert on leadership for his research in improving organizations and the nature of work.

[2][3] He authored or co-authored fourteen books and consulted to companies, governments, the World Bank, unions, research and development centers and laboratories, universities and orphanages or taught in 36 countries.

Davis High School where he was awarded the General von Steuben Medal for Excellence in American History.

As a graduate student at Harvard he was a teaching fellow and secretary to the Committee on Educational Policy at the faculty of Arts and Sciences.

At Harvard, he worked with David Riesman, Jerome Bruner, B.F. Skinner, and McGeorge Bundy, and also studied with the anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn.