Judi Neal

After receiving her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University, Judi Neal worked 8 years full-time in industry, including 5 years as a manager for Honeywell.  She has consulted to organizations for 24 years, and taught management at the University of New Haven and other universities for over 17 years.  Judi is now Professor Emeritus at the University of New Haven.

She has served on the Boards of Directors of several professional, community, and academic organizations.  Judi is President of Neal & Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on personal and organizational transformation.  Her clients include Pfizer, Unilever, Sennheiser, Electric Boat, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Rodale Press, Rockport Company, Yankee Gas, Jackson Newspapers, and numerous smaller organizations.

In 1992 she made spirituality in the workplace a central focus of her research and presentations, and has gained a reputation in the national media for stressing the importance and value of spirituality into the workplace.  As Founder and Executive Director of the International Center for Spirit at Work, Judi helps to provide resources, information and community to those who are seeking greater integration of spirituality and work.  The Center is a membership organization, and offers networking, publications, research, courses, and consulting to individuals and organizations.  The goal of this non-profit organization is to legitimize spirituality in the workplace and to provide resources to individuals and organizations who are committed to transformation.

The Center’s website, www.spiritatwork.org, is known as “information central” of the spirituality in the workplace movement.

Judi has been very active in professional organizations including the Academy of Management, where she helped to found the “Management, Spirituality, and Religion (MSR) Interest Group,” and is a Past Chair of this group.  The MSR Group is the fastest growing group in the Academy, and has more members than several of the Divisions.  She was also active in The Eastern Academy of Management where she is a Fellow, and a Past-President, and in the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, where she served on the Board.

Judi has spoken at the United Nations, the World Business Academy, Rutgers University, The California School of Professional Psychology, Southern Connecticut State College, The European Baha’i Business Forum, the International Organizational Development Association, The European Human Resource Managers Forum, The Eastern Academy of Management, the National Academy of Management, and the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society as well as numerous national and international conferences on spirituality in the workplace in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, The U.K., and Thailand.