Dr. Sharon M. Ravitch
Dr. Sharon Ravitch is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Ravitch’s research, advising, teaching, and learning design integrate human and organizational development, psychology, anthropology, leadership, management, and organizational theory. Ravitch is a GIAN Scholar of the Government of India and Fulbright Specialist. Ravitch is a global leadership and organizational diagnostics expert working with leaders, teams, and organizations to cultivate organizational sensemaking practices for cultural excellence. She teaches and coaches executives across sectors and global contexts, designing and conducting leadership development with global leaders at the Wharton Business School’s Executive Education hub and the Yale School of Management. Ravitch’s approach to sustainable, assets-based organizational development and applied research is grounded in her decades-long experience serving as a senior advisor to global executives, leaders, and policymakers across government, corporate, non-profit, and non-governmental sectors working to drive sustainable change at the individual, community, state, and national levels. Dr. Ravitch has published nine books on leadership and qualitative methods including: Leaders as Architects of Change: Designing Organizations for Connection and Resilience in Times of Uncertainty (2026); Leadership Mindsets for Adaptive Change: The Flux 5 (2023); Flux Leadership: Real-Time Inquiry for Humanizing Educational Change (2022); Qualitative Research: Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological (2021/2016); Applied Research for Sustainable Change: A Guide for Education Leaders (2019); Reason and Rigor: How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research (2017/2012); Matters of Interpretation: Reciprocal Transformation in Therapeutic and Developmental Relationships with Youth (1998). Her two current books focus on humanizing AI in organizations and systems. Ravitch earned two master’s degrees from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, mentored by Dr. Carol Gilligan, and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology and education
Appears in 7 Episodes
Designing Virtual Trust: Micro-Moments, Team Norms, and Healthy Conflict in Remote Work
In this episode of The Practitioner Scholar: The Penn CLO Podcast, Dr. Sharon Ravitch explores the practicalities of remote team leadership with Dr. Karen Bicking, He...
Leading Through the BANI World: Psychological Stability, Trust, and Pre-Mortems
Dr. Sharon Ravitch is joined by HR executive and scholar-practitioner Dr. TJ Lintz. Reflecting on his doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lintz ex...
The Gift of Constructive Critique: Designing Brave Corporate Cultures
In this episode of the PennCLO podcast, Dr. Sharon Ravitch is joined by Dr. Marikay Forst, a distinguished leadership expert and author of the groundbreaking chapter, ...
Architects of Change: A Six-Part Leadership Roadmap for the AI Era
In this episode of The Practitioner Scholar, Dr. Sharon Ravitch sits down with Dr. Bridie Fanning, Managing Director at Accenture and former Chief HR Officer, to discu...
Leaders as Architects of Collaboration
Great collaboration doesn't happen. It's designed. So why do so many leadership teams still treat it as something that should just emerge naturally? In this episode of...
When the Map Disappears: Architecting Adaptability in a World That Won’t Slow Down
Dr. Sharon Ravitch (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education) interviews Penn CLO doctoral alum Oscar Arias about his chapter, “Leading in Flux,” from t...
PennCLO Presents: Leaders as Architects of Change - A pre-launch conversation for the forthcoming book
In this special episode of the Practitioner Scholar podcast from the Penn Chief Learning Officer Doctoral program, Dr. Ragu Krishnamoorthy and Dr. Sharon Ravitch intro...
