Aviva Legatt

Dr. Aviva Hirschfeld Legatt is a faculty member in the Organizational Dynamics Program at University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches a course about effective global collaboration. As an independent consultant, Dr. Legatt lectures globally about international higher education challenges, and provides one-to-one advising for students seeking admission to U.S. colleges and universities. A critical part of her work is developing students’ cross-cultural fluency of both American and academic customs. At Wharton, Dr. Legatt guides the organizational learning of executive teams through facilitated team-based reflections and 360-feedback. Also at Wharton, Dr. Legatt worked as Senior Associate Director for Special Programs and Admissions, where she oversaw the Leadership in the Business World pre-college program and served on the undergraduate admissions committee.

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Optimizing Diversity on Teams (Coursera)

By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict and establish common ground rules through real-world [...]

Building High-Performing Teams (Coursera)

Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course [...]