Lorea Seidel

Lorea Seidel

Part-Time Faculty

Adjunct Professor of Management and Organizations

Management, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship

Email

loreas@smu.edu

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Education

M.Ed.

Biography

Lorea Seidel is the Chief People Officer for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. She also serves as principal for Aerie Leadership LLC serving as Leadership Development Consultant and Executive Coach. As an executive coach, she focuses on leaders and aspiring leaders aspiring to better understand and then build on their existing strengths, ultimately growing in their ability to lead with courage, confidence, and connection. Throughout her work, Lorea personally seeks to lead with inspired optimism, helping people move from obsessing over what’s problematic to envisioning what’s possible. As both an internal leader and a consultant, she helps leaders develop braver, innovative, high-trust and high-performing teams. Her consulting expertise includes leadership and professional development, organizational assessment, strategic planning, change management, employee engagement, team dynamics and cohesion, culture building and employee retention.

Teaching

Executive Leadership

Research

Leadership, Positive Psychology, Organizational Development and Human Resources