Faculty/Staff
Lisa Penney
Professor
lpenney@usf.edu
Campus: Sarasota-Manatee
Room: C219
Phone: 727-873-4944
Lisa M. Penney is a professor in the School of Management in Sarasota-Manatee where
she teaches undergraduate and MBA courses on management, leadership and organizational
behavior. She is an award-winning researcher who has spent nearly 20 years studying
the causes and consequences of job stress, particularly the antecedents and psychological
processes that underlie harmful stress reactions, such as counterproductive work behavior
and burnout.
Her work has been published in top scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management Review, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She has presented at national and international conferences and has been featured
by national and international media, including Forbes.com, Newsweek Japan, Fox News, The Today Show, Stylist (UK), and The Victoria Harbor Times (Australia). Currently, she is working to bridge the research on neuroscience, decision-making
and stress to develop practical strategies to help individuals improve their critical
thinking, decision-making and creativity under stressful conditions. She summarizes
the basic ground of this new direction in her .
Penney earned a PhD and a master's degree, both focusing on industrial/organizational psychology; and a bachelor's degree in psychology all from USF.