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The SOM is a resource to organizations and individuals interested in women and leadership. Its Center for Gender in Organizations (www.simmons.edu/som/cgo) conducts cutting-edge research for businesses worldwide on improving organizational effectiveness by strengthening gender equity in the workplace. It offers the nation's premiere annual conference on women and leadership, attended by more than 2,500 women professionals nationwide. The School also delivers custom and open-enrollment executive programs for women leaders, partnering with such leading companies as Deloitte, Time Warner, Verizon, and Eli Lilly.

Merrill-Sands is an authority on gender dynamics in the workplace, women and leadership, women in science, and organizational change. As associate dean, she led the school's double-digit growth in executive education, and was co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Gender in Organizations.

Before joining the School of Management, Merrill-Sands was a consultant with the World Bank and the Ford Foundation, working on increasing the role of women in science, and was a senior researcher in a United Nations-sponsored research agency where she led international teams addressing issues of improving the livelihood of the rural poor--particularly women and families--in developing countries.