Dr. Michelle Xue Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Programme Co-Director of Leadership Development Programme at CEIBS. Prior to joining CEIBS, she worked at the Erasmus Centre of Behavioural Ethics, Rotterdam School of Management. 

Dr. Zheng holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour and specializes in the areas of Leadership, Conflict Management, and Negotiations and Decision-making. She is currently researching how emotion and power influence leaders’ ethical behaviours. Moreover, she is doing research on how power and status shape the effectiveness of apologies and forgiveness in workplace conflict resolution. Dr. Zheng is an active member of the Academy of Management, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the International Association of Conflict Management. She has received the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Graduate Travel Award. Her recent research has won the 2023 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Her work has been published in a number of scholarly journals such as Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Organisational Behaviour, Journal of Business Ethics, and Social Psychology and Personality Science and has been covered by media outlets such as Financial Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, and others. 

Dr. Zheng has supervised MA/MBA and Ph.D. students and has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Singapore and the Netherlands. Her teaching interests include Organisational Behaviour, Leadership, Business Ethics, and Negotiations and Decision-making. She was awarded Poets & Quants prestigious “Best 40 under 40 Business Professors” in 2021.