Joyce S. Osland

Joyce S. Osland serves as the Executive Director of the Global Leadership Advancement Center at San José State University's School of Global Innovation and Leadership, affiliated with the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business.

• Education: PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University (1990).

Her research focuses on global leadership, cross-cultural management, international business, and organizational behavior. She has contributed to frameworks for cultural sensemaking, expatriate repatriation knowledge transfer, and defining global leadership competencies.

Key publication trends include global leadership development, expatriate management, cross-cultural knowledge transfer, and experiential organizational behavior models. Notable works span from 1999 to 2014, with a focus on Latin American cultural implications, repatriation processes, and cognitive expertise in global leadership.

She teaches courses like BUS 268: Managing Across Cultures and BUS 262B: Global Leadership Development at San José State University's Lucas Business Complex in Santa Clara, CA.