Marianne Cooper

Marianne Cooper is a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab. She is also an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality. Dr. Cooper was the lead researcher for Sheryl Sandberg’s NYT best-seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and she is an author on all of the Lean In & McKinsey Women in the Workplace reports. Dr. Cooper is an expert on gender, women’s leadership, inclusion, economic inequality, and the future of work. Her book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, examines how families are coping in an insecure age.

Dr. Cooper regularly speaks, writes, and consults on these topics for media outlets like The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review and companies such as Adobe and Sony. She is also an affiliated educator for the Center for Institutional Courage and a LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equity. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.