Judith E. Glaser

Judith E. Glaser is an American author, academic, business executive and organizational anthropologist. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Benchmark Communications, Inc., an executive coaching and management consulting company based in Boston. Glaser is also the co-founder and chairman of the Creating WE Institute. During her career, she has worked with clients including Clairol, Citibank, Pfizer, Burberry, American Airlines, and Verizon.

Glaser has authored seven books including best-sellers Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization, The DNA of Leadership, and Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results. She has also had appearances on networks such as CBS and NBC for her commentary on leadership in the workplace.

Glaser became interested in human behavior at a young age, reading medical books by 11 years old and entering college at 16. She earned her bachelor's degree from Temple University and later attended Drexel University where she was awarded a research fellowship and M.S. in Human Behavior & Development. Glaser also earned a master's degree from Harvard’s Bales School of Social Relations, and a second master's in Corporate and Political Communications from Fairfield University. Additionally, Glaser is certified in 20 assessments used for individuals, teams and organizations and she has created four assessments including the C-IQ Assessment; TRUST Assessment, Creating WE DNA Assessment, and WHO AM I? Assessment. In 2006, she was a recipient of the Gallery of Success award from Temple University.

In 1980, Glaser founded Benchmark Communications, Inc., a workplace transformational consultancy firm that advises businesses on team building and leadership. Initially, the company operated as Judy Glaser & Associates. Glaser's firm was hired by Random House to write the Random House Handbook of Business Terms, a dictionary of over 3,500 industry terms. While writing the business term handbook, Glaser thought the word "benchmarking" stood out and renamed her company Benchmark Communications in 1984. Serving as chief executive officer, Glaser heads Benchmark and works as an Organizational Anthropologist, consultant, and executive coach for CEO’s and their teams. Her clients have included companies such as Clairol, Champion International Paper, Praxair, Exide, Donna Karan, Pepsi, Citibank, IBM, AT&T and Pfizer.

Additionally, Glaser is founding member of the Harvard Coaching Institute, a partnership of executive coaches and organizational consultants. She has engaged in decades of research as a social scientist, and focuses her work in the corporate industry as an organizational anthropologist. Glaser has served as an adjunct professor at Wharton University, and a visiting guest speaker schools including Harvard, Kellogg, Loyola, and the University of Chicago.

Glaser is also co-founder and chairman of the Creating WE Institute, a global research organization focused on the neuroscience of “WE” and organizational leadership. She is also a board member of the We Are Family Foundation as well as Expeditionary Learning. In 2011, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by Drexel University.

Throughout her career, Glaser has studied and researched in various academic fields including human behavior and development, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience and transformational social sciences. She has authored seven books and was the senior editor of the Random House Handbook of Business Terms.