Lisa Barron

      Adjunct Professor

Ph.D., UCLA, Organizational Behavior
MBA, UCLA
B.A., Stanford University, English & Psychology
 

Key Research Areas: Negotiation and communication, symbolic meaning of money, women and negotiation.

Professional Biography

Dr. Lisa Barron is a faculty member of Organization and Management at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her principal research and teaching interests focus on negotiation, communication, and leadership. She has consulted with large and small organizations and has taught negotiation techniques to executives, career counselors, undergraduate and graduate students, academic staff and faculty. Her coaching and consulting focuses on negotiation and communication. She also facilitates team meetings.

Professor Barron’s research focuses on negotiation. In particular, she is interested in salary negotiation, and her work focuses on differences in men’s and women’s approaches to salary negotiation and on the centrality and meaning of money in men’s and women’s lives. She has received numerous grants in support of her work. Her research has been published in the journals Human Relations, Career Development International, and Journal of Management Inquiry. Her research on gender differences in salary negotiation has been written about or recognized in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Glamour, The Huffington Post, and the Orange County Register. In addition, she has appeared on radio programs for WBUR, KNX, CBS and NPR.

Professor Barron has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in organizational behavior and negotiation at Pepperdine University and University of California, Irvine and Executive Education at UCLA and UCI. She has taught negotiation to executives and women academics at UCLA, CalTech, UCI, and Utah State University. Much of her teaching and workshops have focused on developing men's and women’s ability to negotiate. She has received numerous awards for her negotiation course. In 2004, she received the award for the best teacher overall at The Merage School of Business at UCI. In 2003, she received “The Charles and Twyla Martin Excellence in Teaching Award Dean’s Honoree” award.

In addition to her academic experience, Professor Barron has worked as an advisor to undergraduates and as a consultant and trainer at the Data Center at Stanford University. She also has experience marketing IT training programs.

She is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Western Academy of Management, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Association for Psychological Types. She is a reviewer for leading journals in the fields of Management and Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from The Anderson School at UCLA. In addition, she has an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in Psychology and English from Stanford University. She loves to travel, cook (and eat), cycle, read, scuba dive, draw, and collect and make handicrafts. She is currently learning metalsmithing.