Aneeta Rattan

Dr. Rattan is an expert on mindsets, diversity, and belonging in organizations. She focuses on solving three diversity challenges that nearly all organizations face. First, she studies how mindsets can bridge belonging gaps in the workplace. Second, she investigates the dynamics around speaking up about bias at work, and how to overcome the myriad pressures to remain silent. Third, she reveals how organization’s rhetoric celebrating diversity can unintentionally backfire, undermining their diversity goals. At London Business School, Dr. Rattan teaches about diversity, leadership, motivation, and organisational culture, and she launched the School’s first elective on diversity in organizations.

Dr Rattan has contributed to Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, New York Times, Behavioral Scientist, and National Public Radio (USA). Her case Satya Nadella at Microsoft (with Herminia Ibarra) was the overall winner for the case centre awards in 2020, and her case Ros Atkins and the 50:50 Project at the BBC was a finalist for the same award in 2022. Dr. Rattan’s research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Dr. Rattan won the MBA Core Teaching Award in 2016, was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2017, was a finalist for the Thinkers50 Radar Award in 2019, won the LBS School-wide Teaching Award in 2022, and was a Poets&Quants Favorite MBA Professor in 2023. She is a Fellow of APS and SPSP, and a member of SESP. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition.

After growing up in Florida, Dr. Rattan completed her undergraduate at Columbia University in New York and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral work at Stanford University.