Dr. Bobbi Thomason

I'm an award-winning researcher and professor at Pepperdine University. My work explores the systems and situations stacked against us, and how individuals nevertheless navigate their way and build new paths in the process. 

I was on the faculty at the Wharton School and worked as a researcher at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. I earned my PhD from Stanford's School of Engineering. My research appears in leading academic journals as well as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME, and NPR.

I bring rigor to something deeply personal — 

and I'm still practicing what I study.

Underneath all my work is one belief I keep coming back to: agency isn't something you're given, 

and it isn't something taken from you for good. 

Agency something we claim and reclaim, 

one vow at a time — 

and each time we do, 

the ripple effects are exponential.