Christopher Winchester

Christopher (Chris) C. Winchester is an award-winning research- and teaching-oriented Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior at the Carlson School of Management within the Department of Work and Organizations. At the University of Minnesota, Winchester's current research activities focus on theoretical development and the use of advanced mixed methods to better understand how the structural context and characteristics of star performers and underperformers shape their motivations—and the consequences that they face for their high/low performance. 

Winchester holds an M.B.A from the University of Nebraska and a B.S. in business administration with concentrations in management, entrepreneurship, and marketing from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has published multiple research and teaching publications in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, and The CASE Journal. Additionally, Winchester teaches Leading Self and Teams (BA 1011) at the University of Minnesota, and serves in several service positions across the field, including as Ph.D. Student Representative for the Organizational Behavior Division as well as the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management.

​Prior to academia, Winchester owned and operated Your Wedding Planner, one of Omaha Nebraska's largest wedding planning and floral design businesses. He also has professional experience as a marketing associate and an e-commerce associate which he leverages in his research and teaching. Additionally, Winchester loves to write about himself in the third person where he gets to write anything he wants, no matter how silly. Before college, Winchester graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.