Jack Denfeld Wood is Clinical Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD.

His areas of special interest are:
• Depth psychology and understanding the unconscious and irrational forces in managerial decision-making
• Leadership and team development
• Group relations
• Culture and ideology

Professor Wood graduated in government from Colby College and gained an MA in social psychology at Syracuse University, followed by an MA, MPhil, and PhD in organizational behavior at Yale University. He is currently training as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich.

Prior to coming to IMD, he was a pilot in the US Air Force, a research and teaching fellow at Yale University, and post-doctoral fellow in conflict management, mediation, and negotiation at the American Arbitration Association in Washington DC and the DC Mediation Service.

Jack Denfeld Wood has written in several areas, including his doctoral dissertation: 'A Theory of Small Group Structure' Yale, 1987, a field and multivariate study on small groups focusing on the structure and dynamics of subgroups.
Most recently, Professor Wood has co-authored and published, with Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD, the case series “Jackie Parker and ‘The Boys from Syracuse"' (A, B and C) (IMD case series, 2003).

Professor Wood is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Management, and The AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, Washington-Baltimore Center, and the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA).