About

Christopher “Chris” C. Winchester is an award-winning Assistant Professor of Management at Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business. His research uses advanced mixed methods to build theory on why people become performance outliers and what happens when they do, including strategic underperformers and star performers. Dr. Winchester’s work has been published in leading management journals, including the Journal of Management, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior, among others. His research has also been recognized with numerous honors, including the Lee Hakel Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Most Innovative Paper Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division.

At Rawls, he teaches organizational behavior, for which he has received the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year Award. One of his teaching cases was also a finalist for The CASE Journal’s Best Case Award. Within the academic community, Winchester serves as the micro representative for the Journal of Management’s Social Media Committee and as a member of the Organizational Behavior Division’s Making Connections Committee. He has also received multiple Best Reviewer Awards and mentored the recipient of the 2024 Best ESG Thesis Award. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and both an M.B.A. and B.S. from the University of Nebraska.

Prior to academia, Winchester founded and operated one of Omaha’s largest wedding planning and floral design businesses. He also worked as a freelance web and graphic designer, marketing associate, and e-commerce professional, experiences that he continues to draw on in his research and teaching. In his spare time, he enjoys freelance web design, sand volleyball, and bird watching.