Welcome!

My name is Andy Hafenbrack. I'm an Associate Professor of Management & Organization at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington in Seattle. My research is primarily on mindfulness and cultural psychology. I am interested in when meditating at work could be helpful or harmful, as well as what the consequences are of multicultural experiences. A talk about my meditation research can be found here.
ahaf@uw.edu

Research Topics

• Mindfulness Meditation
• Cultural Psychology
• Motivation and Performance
• Prosocial Behavior and Deviance
• Creativity and Innovation
• ​Decision-Making
• ​Inclusive Leadership

Teaching

• Management & Leadership
• Mindful Decision Making
• Successful Negotiations
• Psychological Foundations of Organizational Behavior
• Study Tour to Portugal
• ​Executive Development Programs

Media

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Harvard Business Review
• Forbes
• Financial Times
• Seattle Times
• Businessweek
• Seattle Met
• INSEAD Knowledge
• ​South China Morning Post

Timeline

• Born in 1986
• B.S. in Decision Science from Carnegie Mellon University 2009
• Ph.D. in Organisational Behaviour from INSEAD 2015
• Four years on faculty at Católica Lisbon
• Joined faculty at UW Foster in 2019
​• Tenured in 2023