Kevin Rockmann

Rockmann is a Professor of Management, Assistant Dean for Research and the CGI Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow at the George Mason University Costello College of Business. He is also an affiliate faculty of the Honors College. His research involves studying working relationships in organizations, including how relationships are generated, maintained, and dissolve. He is particularly interested in how organizations cultivate relationships given the increasing use of remote and hybrid work. He teaches and consults in the areas of leadership, cultivating high quality relationships, training middle and top-level managers, and negotiation and conflict management. His research has been covered by Harvard Business Review, Time, The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is the lead author of Negotiation: Moving from Conflict to Agreement (Sage, 2021).

Areas of Expertise

• Interpersonal Relationships
• Relational Systems and Leadership
• Remote and Hybrid Work
• Personal Trauma and Interpersonal Effects
• Identity / Identification 

Academic or Industry Experience

Rockmann teaches courses on leadership, negotiation, and organizational behavior in a range of formats and settings, from 1/2 day introduction courses to 3 day leadership building seminars to full MBA in person and on-line courses. He is the lead author on the textbook Negotiation: Moving from Conflict to Agreement, which was published by Sage in 2021. He also speaks and consults regularly for organizations on topics regarding leadership, negotiation, relationship management, and management teaching pedagogy. He has traveled to Latin America multiple times (Chile, Argentia, Peru) leading our MBA global residency. 

Select Achievements

• University Teaching Excellence Award (2025)
• Southern Management Association Best Overall Paper Award. “Longing for the past: The dual effects of daily nostalgia on employee performance” (with J. Methot & E. Rosado-Solomon)
• Seed Grant Proposal Preparation Award - $10,000 (2022)
• George Mason University School of Business Dean’s Scholar (2017 – 2020; 2020 – 2023)

Education

• PhD - Organizational Behavior, University of Illinois
• BS - Business, University of Illinois