Dr. Paul P. Baard is a full-time professor of communication and management at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business. He also consults with many leading corporations and organizations, specializing in motivation and interpersonal relations, including team-building. His research interests include the intra- and interpersonal dynamics associated with anxiety.
He has authored a book on leadership and motivation, and his work has appeared in scholarly publications as well as Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS, WABC-TV, CNN, Court TV and other media outlets. Dr. Baard has presented his concept of psychological fusion (how anxiety can be triggered by organizational events) at MIT’s Organizational Learning Center, at the invitation of Peter Senge (author of The Fifth Discipline), at the Wharton School of Business, at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and at other leading institutions. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous corporate functions.
Dr. Baard draws from his extensive corporate background, having risen to senior line management in the television division of the A.C. Nielsen Company. An appointee of two New York governors, Dr. Baard lives with his wife, Veronica (a consultant and former managing director in charge of human resources at a leading investment banking firm), in Manhasset, Long Island. Their daughter, Samantha, is a Research Fellow studying at George Mason University