Professor Toegel is a teacher, facilitator and researcher in the area of leadership and human behavior.

Specialized in providing one-to-one leadership coaching and team-building workshops to top management teams in both the public and private sector, her major research focuses on leadership development, emotion in organizations, coaching and management consulting.

Ginka Toegel has also been involved in executive programs at the London Business School and the Duke Corporate Education on the development of leadership skills for companies such as ArcelorMittal, Barclays, Danone, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ernst & Young, Merck, Roche Diagnostics, Société Générale, Royal Bank of Scotland as well as many other corporations.

She has taught on numerous executive and degree programs: Leadership in Organizations: Theory & Practice, Organisational Theory & Behaviour, and Organisational Behaviour & Change at the London School of Economics. She received the Innovation in Teaching Award at the London Business School in 2001 and a Major Review Teaching Prize at the London School of Economics in 2006.

Professor Toegel is a member of the Board of the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management and currently serves as a past Division Chair of the MCD. She received the Best Symposium Award of the AOM Management & Education Division (2002), the MCD Award for outstanding practice based paper (2005), and awards for outstanding service as AOM division reviewer (2006 and 2007).

Prior to commencing her academic career, she worked as a psychotherapist and as a senior manager in a non-profit organization.