Steven is Chancellor's Professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a Professor of Organizational Science, Management, and Psychology and the founding Director of Organizational Science at UNC, Charlotte. He has over 100 publications addressing issues such as team effectiveness, leadership, engagement, health and employee well-being, meetings at work, and organizational research methods. He is editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology. Dr. Rogelberg has received over $2,500,000 of external grant funding including from the National Science Foundation.
It might seem like everybody hates meetings, but organizational psychologist Steven Rogelberg calls them a "fundamental essence of being a human" and says we need to find ways to make meetings better, rather than eliminating them entirely.
The fundamental problem with meetings is bad meetings, wasted time in meetings — but meetings in and of themselves, they're not inherently the problem.