Prior Work
Before my stroke in 2010, I wrote extensively on the issues of gender and culture, philanthropy in charter schools and leadership. In 2006, I co-founded the Stanford PACS along with Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Woody Powell.
Tempered Radicals
puts self-realization and change within everyone’s reach–whether your difference stems from race, gender, sexual orientation, values, beliefs, or social perspective.
– HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
Preparing Principals Other Publications
Debra Meyerson’s work has appeared extensively in the Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Research in Organizational Behavior, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender and other prestigious publications.
Gender and Culture
- An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms. With R. Ely.
- Unmasking Manly Men. With R. Ely.
- Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership. With R. Ely and L. Wernick.
- Rethinking Political Correctness. With R. Ely and M. Davidson.
- Gender Inequity and the Process of Change. With J. Martin.
- Making Change: A Framework for Promoting Gender Equity in Organizations. With D. Kolb, J. Fletcher, D. Meyerson, D. Merrill-Sands, and R. Ely.
- Organizational Change and Intervention. With R. Ely.
- Women and Leadership: The Difference Difference Makes. With R. Ely.
- A Modest Manifesto for Shattering the Glass Ceiling. With J. Fletcher.
- Moving Out of the ‘Armchair’: Developing a Framework to Bridge the Gap between Feminist Theory and Practice. With D. Kolb.
- Advancing Gender Equity in Organizations: The Challenge and Importance of Maintaining a Gender Narrative. With R. Ely.
- Theories of Gender in Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Analysis and Change. With R. Ely.
- Advancing Gender Equity in Organizations: The Challenge and Importance of Maintaining a Gender Narrative. With R. Ely.
- Feeling Stressed and Burned Out: A Feminist Reading and Revision of Stress-based Emotions.
- Organizational Cultures and the Denial, Channeling, and Acknowledgement of Ambiguity. With J. Martin.
- Culture Change: An Integration of Three Different Views. With J. Martin.
Tempered Radicals
- The Stanford Organizations Community: Reflections of a Tempered Radical.
- The Positive Potential of Tempered Radicals. With R. Quinn.
- Tempered Radicals as Institutional Change Agents: The Case of Advancing Gender Equity at the University of Michigan. With M. Tompkins.
- The Tempered Radicals.
- Radical Change, The Quiet Way.
- Practical Radicals.
- Tempered Radicalism and the Politics of Ambivalence and Change. With M. Scully.
Leadership and Stress
- Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World. With L. Darling-Hammond, M. LaPointe and T. Orr.
- Preparing Leaders for a Changing World: Case Studies of Exemplary Programs. With L. Darling-Hammonds, M. Lapointe and T. Orr.
- Developing Successful Principals: A Review of the Research. With S. Davis and L. Darling-Hammond.
- Email as Symbol and Source of Stress.
- Stress in Institutions: The Cultural Production of Ambiguity and Burnout.
- Stress in Institutions: The Cultural Production of Ambiguity and Burnout.
Philanthropy and Charters
- Getting to Scale: Ideas, Opportunities, and Resources in the Early Diffusion of the Charter Management Organization, 1999–2006. With R. Quinn and C. Oelberger. Teachers College Record
- Beyond Grantmaking: Philanthropic Foundations as Agents of Change and Institutional Entrepreneurs. With R. Quinn and M. Tompkns-Stange.
- Power beyond the Purse: Philanthropic Foundations as Agents of Change in the California Charter School Movement. With L. Wernick.
- Organization and Social Movement Implications of Going to Scale: Lessons from Charter Schools. With A. Berger and R. Quinn.
Articles, Reviews & Interviews About Debra Meyerson
- Tempered Radicals: The Power of Small and Big Wins by Tina Cheuk and Robin Hoecker
- Practical Radicals by Keith Hammonds
- A Change Will do You Good by Fast Company
- Tempered Radicals Speak Courageously to Inspire Change by Dennis Sparks