Christine Porath is a professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Previously she was a faculty member at Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on how to help people and communities thrive.

Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, Microsoft, World Bank, World Health Organization, International Monetary Fund, Genentech, Ford, Marriott, National Institute of Health, Cleveland Clinic, AT&T, 3M, Verizon, Southwest, Salesforce, MD Anderson, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, and National Security Agency. 

Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. She has taught in various Executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California (USC). Porath is author of Mastering Community, and Mastering Civility and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. 

Before getting her Ph.D., she worked for International Management Group (IMG), a leading sports management and marketing firm. Porath received her Ph.D. from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as well as the women’s basketball and soccer teams.