Stacy Blake-Beard is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she instructs on the topics of managing organizations and mentoring as a developmental process. Prior to joining Tuck, Stacy was affiliated with several academic institutions including Simmons University’s School of Business and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. At Simmons, she was a full professor who taught organizational leadership and mentoring as a leadership strength and served as the 2016-2019 Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair of Women and Leadership. At Harvard, she served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Education as an assistant professor, sharing her knowledge on organizational behavior and the mentoring of relationships across difference social identities. Stacy’s work with academic institutions has taken her as far as India, where she was a member of the visiting faculty at both the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women in Delhi.
Stacy’s work is centered on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships and how these relationships may be changing because of increasing workforce diversity. She is particularly interested in the issues women face as they develop mentoring relationships, as well as the dynamics of formal mentoring programs in both corporate and educational settings. Having worked overseas, Stacy also researches and practices in international contexts, drawing from her global experiences to inform her work.
A renowned scholar, consultant, speaker, mentor, and coach, Stacy continues to explore new avenues for sharing her knowledge beyond the academic world. Most recently, she’s collaborated with Tuck Executive Education and ExecOnline Partners, where her expertise on the topic of Managing Visibility has been adapted for an online program platform. She was also a speaker in the multicultural mentoring series sponsored by the International Mentoring Association and the Voice & Influence video series sponsored by The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.
Stacy has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including awards from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Robert Toigo Foundation. She is a past recipient of the Fulbright Award, which she received for her project “Systems of Sustenance and Support: Exploring the Impact of Mentoring on the Career Experiences of Indian Women” in partnership with the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.
Stacy holds an MA and a PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan and a BS in psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park.