Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business, Rice University.
[3] Sonenshein completed his PhD in Management and Organizations from the University of Michigan in 2007[4] after spending several years working at Vividence,[5] an Internet startup during the dotcom era funded by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia capital that was eventually purchased by Keynote Systems.
After graduating from Michigan, Sonenshein joined the faculty at Rice University, where he rose from an assistant professor to holding an endowed chair in under ten years.
Stretch was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and was named by the Washington Post as one of the 10 books on leadership to read in 2017.
[8] His latest book, Joy at Work, was co-written with international tidying expert Marie Kondo.
Stretch received extensive media coverage upon its release and Sonenshein authored several articles applying the concept beyond work, including one of the most widely read stories in the New York Times' Well section in 2017 called, "To Raise Better Kids, Say No,"[9] and a feature for Time Magazine called, "The Key to Success Is Not Having More.
"[10] He has also written for outlets such as Fast Company,[11] Harvard Business Review,[12][13] Fox News,[14] CNBC,[15] and Entrepreneur.
The role of construction, intuition, and justification in responding to ethical issues at work: The sensemaking-intuition model.