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Tyler is a rising fourth-year Management doctoral student in the Culverhouse College of Business at The University of Alabama. Her research focuses on personality, leadership, gender, and interpersonal competition. She is currently the Research Methods Division Student Representative and an active member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Organizational Behavior Divisions. She holds a B.A. in Finance from California State University, Fullerton, and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of West Florida, where she was also an Academic All-American collegiate women's volleyball player. Her industry experience includes time in lending analytics and business consulting. She has served in several Chair, President, and Vice President roles at UA and beyond, and is passionate about giving back and developing the AOM doctoral student community. Her top advice is to be friendly and start conversations with people in the same room as you - you are likely in the same room because you share some common ground.

Viktoria is a third-year PhD Candidate at the LMU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center and the Institute for Innovation Management at LMU Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on value creation and destruction through entrepreneurial activities by taking a holistic view of the environment and society, and the role of systems thinking within entrepreneurship with a particular interest in how entrepreneurs perceive and address systemic challenges.

Viktoria holds two bachelor’s degrees and a master’s degree in management with an extra-curricular master program in environmental studies, all at LMU Munich. Next to her industry experience, founding her own startup, and coaching and mentoring startups, she has several years of teaching experience in business planning and impact entrepreneurship education.

Within the Academy, she is a member of the ENT, SIM, ONE, MED and OMT divisions. Her top AOM advice: attend doctoral consortia and social events – some of the best writing groups and co-author collaborations start through peer conversations across universities.

Matthew Gerson is a rising third-year Ph.D. student in Organizational Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and research assistant at the Center for Leadership Science. His research interests include strategic leadership, top management teams, and research methods. Prior to his doctoral studies, Matthew attended the College of Saint Rose, where he studied weight-related stereotype threat in the workplace.

Ren Lovegood is a third year Ph.D. candidate in Organizations and Social Change at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Their research explores the role of care, memory, and ethics in organizations, with a particular focus on mutual aid, disability justice, and alternative organizing practices. Ren serves as the Health Care Management (HCM) Student Representative and is actively involved in the Critical Management Studies and Social Issues in Management divisions. This year, Lovegood is excited to step into the role of Co-Chair for the AOM Doctoral Student Program Committee and is committed to ensuring that programming for students is inclusive, welcoming, and tailored to the unique needs of our peers. Beyond the Academy, Ren is Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of Blind Students and an advocate for accessible, equitable education and employment. Their top advice for navigating AOM is to attend both formal consortium events and informal community-building spaces, as these are often where the most meaningful collaborations and conversations begin.