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Matt Bloom is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, and emeritus professor of management at the University of Notre Dame. Bloom holds advanced degrees in psychology from Cornell University (PhD) and the University of Kansas (MA), and is an award-winning teacher who earned top honors for courses he taught to undergraduates, MBA students, and corporate executives.
As a professor in the Mendoza College of Business, Matt studied well-being for nearly three decades where he led the WorkWell research project. Initially, he and his team of ten researchers focused on the well-being of people in the helping and healing professions: international aid workers, global health professionals, educators, clergy and ministry workers, physicians, and other healthcare professionals, among others. He later broadened his focus to include both well-being at work and in life more generally |
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Matt lead a team of ten researchers and staff members. He conducted research internationally in over 25 countries including in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, India, Gaza, Togo, Lebanon, Nepal, the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka. His overseas research involved extensive field work in emergency relief camps, refugee centers, and remote villages to gain first hand experience of the challenging conditions overseas workers face.
Domestically, Matt and his team spent time in physician's offices and exam rooms, teachers lounges and class rooms, and churches and pastor's studies to gain first-hand insights into the work and lives of people in the helping and healing professions. In addition to field work, their surveys capture data from more than 10,000 participants. The team also launched a first-of-its-kind mobile application to capture daily experiences from several hundred research subjects. |
Matt received $10 million in grants from external funders to support his research. He was the first person in Mendoza to receive external research grants, and is one the leading grant recipient in the social sciences at Notre Dame.
Matt has given more than 300 keynotes speeches, conference presentations and workshops on well-being to a wide range of diverse audiences in more than twenty-five countries. His audiences have ranged from more than 5,000 attending a large annual conference to less than fifty in a multi-day well-being workshop.
At Notre Dame Matt taught classes on innovation and design thinking, organizational change and leadership.
Prior to becoming a professor, Matt was a financial advisor at Shearson Lehman Hutton, a consultant at Arthur Young, a psychiatric orderly at The Kansas Institute, and a paramedic for the Douglas County (KS) Emergency Medical Service.
Some of Matt's favorite wise well-being practices:
Matt and his wife, Kim, live in Colorado.
Matt has given more than 300 keynotes speeches, conference presentations and workshops on well-being to a wide range of diverse audiences in more than twenty-five countries. His audiences have ranged from more than 5,000 attending a large annual conference to less than fifty in a multi-day well-being workshop.
At Notre Dame Matt taught classes on innovation and design thinking, organizational change and leadership.
Prior to becoming a professor, Matt was a financial advisor at Shearson Lehman Hutton, a consultant at Arthur Young, a psychiatric orderly at The Kansas Institute, and a paramedic for the Douglas County (KS) Emergency Medical Service.
Some of Matt's favorite wise well-being practices:
- Extended backcountry hiking (5+ days). And, yes, there are no showers or bathrooms
- Baking hearth bread using natural levains, mild sourdough starters
- Scuba diving on coral reefs and wrecks in the Caribbean
- Catch-and-release fly fishing on small mountain streams
- Poetry reading using a process he adapted from lectio divina
- Reading novels. Among his favorite authors are Marilynne Robinson, Richard Ford, Richard Rosso and Abraham Verghese
Matt and his wife, Kim, live in Colorado.