Paul Leonardi Biography

Paul M. Leonardi is the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the Investment Group of Santa Barbara Founding Director of the Master of Technology Management Program. Leonardi moved to UCSB to found the Technology Management Program, and start its Master of Technology Management and Ph.D. programs. As a technonlogy speaker Paul consults profit, and non-profit organizations about how to manage the human aspects of new technology implementation. His recent engagements have focused on helping companies to improve communication between departments, to use social technologies to enhance internal knowledge sharing, and to strengthen global product development operations. For his research, Paul was awarded from the Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, International Communication Association, National Communication Association, and Association for Information Systems. He is also the author of three books Car Crashes Without Cars: Lessons About Simulation Technology and Organizational Change from Automotive Design, Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World, and Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technologies.

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