Professor of Behaviour and Performance Management
Michaéla Schippers is Professor of Behaviour and Performance Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD from the Psychology Department at the Free University in Amsterdam. Prof. Schippers research interest covers goalsetting, team reflexivity, team performance, academic performance as well as ikigai (i.e. purpose in life), and life goals.
Michaéla Schippers’ passion is to assess via research how performance and happiness can be optimized, for individuals, groups and societies. And how this can be achieved via positive psychology interventions such as “life crafting” and “letters to the future” (See Ikigaitv.nl for instructions on how to write your Letter to the future).
She coined the term “life crafting” as a way to optimize performance and happiness. Her work was published in several leading academic journals, such as:
- Annual Review of Psychology,
- Administrative Science Quarterly,
- Journal of Management,
- Journal of Management Studies,
- Personnel Psychology,
- Academy of Management Learning & Education,
- Journal of Organizational Behavior,
- European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology,
- Frontiers in Psychology and Human Relations.
Her work was picked up by the media on several occasions. She did interviews with among others CNN, New York Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Eindbazen podcast and NTR radio.
Recently she published on the topic of societal demise and its reversal.
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Michaela has an open mind, questions mainstream rhetoric, and has the courage to speak out, preparing our minds (and data sets) to perform the method of science.
