Meet Your Instructor


Dr. Jen Marrone is a professor and scholar with over 20 years professional experience leading teams. She studies the factors that differentiate effective and ineffective work teams and managers, including the unique challenges faced by women leaders.

She is a CPA, a former public accountant, and is also the author of Leading with Humility, a research-based and practical guide for managers seeking out new, inclusive, and effective ways to lead. Her research on leadership, teamwork, and management is published in top-tier management journals and has been cited over 4000 times.

Her passion is to share research findings that are counter-intuitive and over-looked but can transform how we work, lead, and live for the better.

Dr. Marrone is a seasoned instructor and regularly teaches courses on management, work teams, and women in leadership to college students and executives.



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Due to launch soon to help in your journey to improve your skills for effectively managing people and leading teams.


Leading with Humility

Far too often, a headstrong leader's ego gets in the way of sound decision making, adversely affecting the organization and the individuals involved. This course, based on cutting edge research, will advance a new model for understanding effective leadership.

My Mission


Not everyone can or chooses to access higher education and all its benefits. While Manage the Madness courses cannot and do not substitute for university undergraduate or graduate level courses, they can and do provide foundational knowledge and understanding needed for being more effective and satisfied when working with, supervising, or leading others. 


The goal of Manage the Madness is to help more people name, understand, and influence what contributes to effectiveness and thriving at work. I wish for students to leave their course feeling more empowered and better equipped to make a positive impact, with a deeper and fuller understanding of why they and others are having the work experiences that they are (from joys to stressors).


The content in Manage the Madness courses is evidence-based, meaning it emerges from my own academic research or my interpretation of other's academic research that has been rigorously conducted and peer-reviewed. These laboratory experiments and on-site field studies seek to uncover findings that apply across diverse persons and organizational work settings. This has resulted in a large body of management knowledge that - when shared and understood - can be reliably leveraged by many (not just a select few) to be more successful at work.