Victor H. Vroom is an international authority on the psychological analysis of behavior in organizations. As an expert in leadership, motivation, and decision making, he teaches at the Yale School of Management and has been a consultant to over 50 major corporations including General Electric, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, GTE, and Union Bank of Switzerland. Professor Vroom is one of a select number of behavior scientists whose autobiographies are contained in Management Laureates. His work was also profiled in Life and Works of Management Thinkers, a book dealing with the fourteen foremost contributors to management theory during the twentieth century. He is also the recipient of the James McKeen Cattell Award from the American Psychological Association and in 1998 received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Academy of Management and has been elected President of the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

In addition to his scholarly and consulting activities, Professor Vroom has been active in teaching leadership. He teaches the core course on leadership to MBA’s at Yale and, since 1980 has taught a highly popular five-day course to senior executives who come from all parts of the globe.