Dr. Jeana Wirtenberg is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Management & Global Business Department at Rutgers Business School and Executive Director of the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation (RICSI). She leads the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative and teaches Sustainability/ESG-related courses in Rutgers Business School’s MBA and Executive Education. Dr. Wirtenberg is lead editor and author for The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: Building New Bridges (Greenleaf, 2008; Routledge, 2019). Her previous book Building a Culture for Sustainability: People, Planet and Profits in a New Green Economy (Praeger, 2014) shows how to holistically integrate sustainability throughout the culture of organizations.
Dr. Wirtenberg has an extensive background in issues related to women, including her award-winning dissertation on Title IX, dozens of published articles, a special issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly on “Women and the Future,” and a book Sex Role Research: Measuring Social Change. Dr. Wirtenberg is also president and CEO of Transitioning to Green, a training and consulting firm that helps companies and organizations make sustainability and corporate social responsibility a mainstream, routine business practice.
Previously, Dr. Wirtenberg was HR Director for Development, Quality, and Organization Effectiveness at Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), where she led a variety of initiatives to build organizational capacity and held several leadership positions in AT&T Human Resources and Marketing. Dr. Wirtenberg started her career in the Federal government, where she was a Social Science Analyst in the Office of Research at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and led the Women’s Research/Social Processes team at the National Institute of Education. She teaches Organizational Behavior and Intro to Corporate Social Innovation in the Rutgers MBA program, Women Leading in Business, and Management Skills in the Rutgers Department of Management and Global Business. She received her Master’s degree and Ph.D. with honors in Psychology from U.C.L.A.