Rachel Pacheco, PhD is an award winning author and management professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. 

Rachel is deeply passionate about ensuring that leaders, executives, and managers have the practical tools required to build thriving teams and develop inclusive and resilient cultures.  A former Chief People Officer, Rachel serves on the board of directors and board of advisors for numerous start-ups and high growth organizations.  

Her best-selling book, Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, focuses on the tools and capabilities that new managers need to be successful. Rachel’s second book, Manage What Matters, which will be published in October of 2026, explores how leaders can bring moments of meaning and significance into their teams’ daily work.

Prior to her role at Georgetown, Rachel was on the faculty of the Management Department at the Wharton School, and was a founding faculty member of the Entrepreneurship Education Program at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her BS in Mathematics from Georgetown University and her MBA, MPhil and PhD in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.