Tempe, Arizona, United States
about Dr. Christensen
Dr. Amanda Christensen, PhD, MBA, Senior Business Advisor
Dr. Amanda Christensen has a PhD in Business Management/Organizational Behavior and an MBA in Business Finance/Strategy. She has 20+ years’ experience in the design and delivery of teaching/training programs (including international experience) and leading teams and conducting research. Amanda has held senior research, teaching, and consulting roles in the private sector, academia, and government, with experience leading Department of Defense (DoD) programs (with Top Secret [TS] clearance), as a business school professor, and in metals manufacturing. She has spoken at numerous events and has advised CEOs, top management teams, and boards of directors. She has 25 peer-reviewed publications and 3,000+ Google Scholar citations.
Amanda has held senior research, teaching, and consulting roles in the private sector, academia, and government, with experience leading Department of Defense (DoD) programs (with Top Secret [TS] clearance), as a business school professor, and in metals manufacturing. She has spoken at numerous events and has advised CEOs, top management teams, and boards of directors. Her specializations include management, organizational behavior, leadership, creativity and innovation, and social and cognitive psychology, with quantitative specializations including psychometrics development and analysis, survey and scale development, EFA/CFA, SEM, path analysis, and multilevel modeling (tools include MPlus, R, SPSS, and others).
Amanda’s work is translatable across many fields, including technology, R&D, financial markets, engineering and science, data management and analysis, and more. Amanda also works in business advisory, project revitalization and rescue, process and performance enhancement, organizational development, workforce development, executive and leadership advisory, and change management.