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Teresa Rothausen, Ph.D. Professional Bio
Teresa Rothausen, Ph.D., has been called a visionary leadership educator for executives and experienced adults. Her clients witness that her approach increases their effectiveness and infuses leadership with meaning and fulfillment. She leverages psychological and spiritual wisdom to guide them as they cultivate the capacity and courage needed to effectively lead organizations at executive levels in our increasingly complex organizations, while also integrating environmental and social justice.
Teresa currently serves as Academic Director of the Executive Leadership Program and Leadership Executive MBA Program at Seattle University (SU), where she is Professor of Leadership in the Albers School of Business and Economics. She is President of Wiser Wilder Leadership, LLC, which she founded to support experienced and executive leaders using her approach, based on her research published in top academic journals, including Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Business Ethics. Some of her research won honors, including her 2019 article on meaning and well-being in work, which was a Journal of Business and Psychology Top-12 Contribution from over 800 articles submitted. She is currently writing the book Wiser Wilder Leadership: A Path to Greater Meaning, Purpose, Joy, and Impact for Experienced Leaders, which guides leaders to use their deep wisdom to ground their leadership as they lead change that activates this wisdom in the world.
In prior positions, Teresa served as Endowed Chair in Principled Leadership, Founding Director, and Lead Faculty at the University of St. Thomas-Minnesota (UST), leading the Full-time UST MBA and the Executive Education Program for Nurse Leaders. She also led other initiatives, chaired key university committees, and was instrumental in college initiatives resulting in one of the highest proportions of African American business faculty in the nation. Prior to UST, she was at Texas A&M University and Arthur Andersen & Co. She has served on boards and executive committees, and in volunteer roles, for nonprofit and professional organizations.
Teresa holds a Ph.D. in human resources / industrial relations from the University of Minnesota, an M.A. in theology with a Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction from St. Catherine University, a B.A. with honors in economics from St. Olaf College, and a C.P.A. She was certified in diversity, equity, and inclusion by The MultiCultural Institute in Washington D.C. in 2002 and did post-doctoral work on spiritual development in leaders at Harvard Divinity School in 2019, where she is an M.Div. candidate.
