Esther Sackett is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Her research expertise uses multiple methodologies to investigate the interpersonal dynamics of collaboration and motivation within and across teams. In particular, she examines how the diverse goals of team members – as well as their awareness and experience of that goal diversity – affect coordination, perceptions of coordination, and interpersonal processes at the individual, team, and inter-organizational levels of analysis.