Facilitating Innovation in Interdisciplinary Teams: The Role of Leadership and Integrative Communication
Theresa Lant, PhD, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Management, Pace University
Scientific discovery and application is being reconfigured to emphasize collaboration across disciplinary, practice, and institutional boundaries. Interdisciplinary collaboration encompasses translational and convergent approaches to scientific discovery and practice. In medicine, these approaches hold the promise of novel discoveries, treatments, and approaches to patient care. However, the implementation of collaboration across knowledge and practice areas holds significant challenges for individuals, teams, and organizations.
In her keynote address, Dr. Lant will introduce team science concepts that will help participants identify common impediments to successful collaboration and will discuss evidence-based leadership and communication practices that individuals and teams can use to bridge conceptual, physical, and interpersonal dimensions of difference.
About the Speaker: Theresa Lant, Ph.D.
Dr. Theresa Lant, (Ph.D. Stanford University Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Management Pace University) is an internationally recognized scholar whose research, teaching, and practice explores the integration of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, particularly in contexts that require large scale project teams composed of experts from multiple fields. She currently serves as a Research Affiliate of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Colorado University Boulder.
Dr. Lant has over thirty years of experience teaching creativity, innovation, organizational design, and strategy. She is a pioneer in the emerging field of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team science. Her research on integrative capacity was highlighted in the NASEM report on Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science. She is a contributing developer of the TeamMapps Translational Research Management Training Modules at the Institute for Translational Sciences. Her publications include conceptual, empirical, and practitioner articles on enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration.