Executive Committee

Chair-Track Positions

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Division Chair
Bradley L. Kirkman
Poole College of Management
North Carolina State University
blkirkma@ncsu.edu

Bradley L. Kirkman is the General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership in the Department of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on leadership, international management, remote/hybrid teams, and work team leadership and empowerment. He was formerly the Foreman R. and Ruby Bennett Endowed Chair in Business Administration in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He has held visiting professor positions in the Department of Management and Organizations at the University of Western Australia in 2006 and the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in 2012. His articles have appeared in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Research Methods, and Leadership Quarterly. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management. In 2019, he was elected as a member of the Society for Organizational Behavior. In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. He was an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal from 2005 to 2008 and is a current Editorial Board member for AMJ, AMR, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Psychology Review. He also received Outstanding Reviewer Awards from AMJ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011, and 2019 and AMR in 2019. He has conducted research, presented papers, and taught in several countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Dubai (UAE), England, Finland, France, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States.

Past Division Chair
Elizabeth George
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
e.george@jbs.cam.ac.uk

Elizabeth George (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is the KPMG Professor of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge. She has an active research interest in nonstandard work arrangements and diversity in the workplace. Her work has been published in major international academic journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Annals. In addition, her research has been used by the International Labor Organization and the US Society for Human Resource Management to help inform public policy and management practice. She served on the Board of Governors and the executive committee of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition and the Organizational Behavior Divisions of the Academy of Management. She is co-editor-in-chief the Academy of Management Annals. She has previously been co-editor in chief of Organizational Psychology Review and associate editor on the Academy of Management Annals, Australian Journal of Management, and Organization Studies. She serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Discoveries. She has held academic positions at universities in Asia, Australia, and the United States. 

Division Chair-Elect
Gilad Chen
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
gchen3@umd.edu

Gilad Chen is the Robert H. Smith Chair in Organizational Behavior and an Associate Dean for Research at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. He received his bachelor degree in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1996, and his doctoral degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from George Mason University in 2001. His research focuses on work motivation, adaptation, teams and leadership, with particular interest in understanding the complex interface between individuals and the socio-technical organizational context. He has won several research awards, including the 2007 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the 2008 Cummings Scholar Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Gilad is also an elected Fellow of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, International Association of Applied Psychology, and Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.. He served as the Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology (2014-2020), and has also been serving as an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods.

Program Chair
Keith Leavitt
College of Business
Oregon State University
keith.leavitt@oregonstate.edu

Keith Leavitt is the Betty S. Henry Amundson Faculty Scholar in Ethics and Professor of Management at Oregon State University. His research interests include behavioral ethics, identity and situated judgment, machine learning and work, and research methods/epistemology. Specifically, much of his research focuses on how social expectations and constraints inform or inhibit ethical behavior in the workplace. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP), the Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, and other outlets. He previously served as an Associate Editor at OBHDP and as a Representative at Large for the OB division. He currently serves on the editorial boards of AMJ, OBHDP, and JAP.

Marie Mitchell headshotProgram Chair - Elect
Marie Mitchell
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina
marie_mitchell@kenan-flagler.unc.edu

Marie Mitchell studies behavioral ethics in the workplace, inclusion and exclusion dynamics at work, and destructive and conflictive work behavior and relationships. Her work has identified and explained the consequences of varied forms of destructive work behaviors, such as abusive supervision, exclusion, workplace cheating and coworker undermining. Her research explains how organizational factors and relational dynamics within organizations promote dysfunctional, exclusionary and unethical behavior as well as how organizations and leaders can enhance functional, inclusive, and ethical behavior in organizations. Her extensive body of research has been published in top journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Psychology. Dr. Mitchell serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Psychology. She is a former associate editor of Personnel Psychology.

Jennifer D. Nahrgang
Tippie College of Business
University of Iowa
jennifer-nahrgang@uiowa.edu

Jennifer D. Nahrgang is the Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. She earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. 

Jennifer’s research focuses on leadership and teams, employee voice and engagement, and the future world of work. This work has been featured in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and The Leadership Quarterly. Jennifer served as Associate Editor for Personnel Psychology, is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and received the Rising Star Early Career Award from the Network of Leadership Scholars. She currently serves on numerous editorial review boards of top-tier journals in the field of management and her research has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Harvard Business Review. Jennifer has previously served the Organizational Behavior Division as a Representative at Large, Chair of the Making Connections Committee, member of the Best Dissertation Award Committee, organizer of numerous PDWs, and as a reviewer.

Representative-at-Large Positions

Award Chair
Helena Cooper-Thomas
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
New Zealand
helena.cooper.thomas@aut.ac.nz

Helena Cooper-Thomas is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. Her research focuses on employees’ relationships with both their colleagues and their employing organization. Helena has authored many peer-reviewed international publications in journals, and contributed to scholarly books, either as author, coauthor or coeditor. In terms of service, Helena is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business and Psychology and Journal of Vocational Behavior, and sits on the New Zealand Royal Society Marsden Panel for Economics and Human Behavior.

Co-Chair Jr Fac Consortium
Sreedhari Desai
Kenan-Flagler School of Business
University of North Carolina

Sreedhari Desai is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Crist W. Blackwell Scholar. in the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina. She received her PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. She has an MS in finance from the University of Utah, and a BS in metallurgical engineering from the Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, India.

Sreedhari researches how individuals behave in organizations, with a focus on ethical decision making, fairness and gender diversity. Her work has been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a fellow at the Women and Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, she was a research fellow in the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. She is an artist with formal training in the fine arts from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Co-Chair Jr Fac Consortium
Jia (Jasmine) Hu
School of Economics and Management & Schwarzman College
Tsinghua University
hujia@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn

Jia (Jasmine) Hu is the Citi Chair Professor of Management at the School of Economics and Management and Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. Previously, she was a full Professor of Management and Denman Scholar at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, and served on the faculty of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where she received tenure. She earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jasmine’s research focuses on prosocial leadership, team effectiveness, and the role of digital technology in shaping leadership and well-being. Her work has been published in top management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology, and has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, Time, and The Washington Post. Her work has received over 10,000 citations, according to Google Scholar. Jasmine serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and Deputy Editor for Management and Organization Review, and is on the editorial boards of several leading journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, ranked among the top 2% of scientists by Stanford University, and was recognized as one of the 10 most productive leadership scholars in the OB field from 2011 to 2017. She was also named a "Best 40 under 40 Professor" by Poets and Quants.

Fadel Matta photoPDW Chair
Fadel Matta
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
fmatta@uga.edu

Fadel Matta is the Terry Dean’s Advisory Council Distinguished Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Michigan State University. His research focuses on organizational justice, leader–member exchange, and emotions in the workplace. Fadel’s work has been published in—and he serves on the editorial boards at—Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. His research has also been featured in popular press outlets such as Daily Mail, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Men’s Health, and the Washington Post. Recognizing the impact of his research, Fadel received the 2020 Rising Star in Leadership Research Award, 2023 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award, and 2023 Academy of Management HR Division Early Career Achievement Award.

Co-Chair Doc Consortium
Margaret Luciano
Smeal College of Business
Pennsylvania State University
mzl6016@psu.edu

Margaret Luciano is an Associate Professor of Management and Organization and BNY Mellon Faculty Fellow at Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business, where she teaches organizational behavior and teams courses. Luciano earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree from Clark University. Her research examines the dynamics and effectiveness of leaders, teams, and complex systems. She is passionate to forge and foster scholar-practitioner partnerships, enabling research that informs and benefits the real-world. This can be seen in her collaborations with organizations (e.g., healthcare systems, Center for Creative Leadership, Group for Organizational Effectiveness) and translation of her academic publications (e.g., Academy of Management Journal) to practitioner outlets (e.g., Harvard Business Review). Luciano has spearheaded PDW programming that fuels researcher-practitioner connections for the OB Division. She has also served our large Division in ways that forge high-quality connections and help new members feel “at home”. She has been a member (since 2015) and chair (since 2020) of the Making Connections Committee—a group of 33 talented citizens who deliver the Division’s flagship PDWs and social events. She co-organized six social events, eight PDWs, and presented in numerous others. She serves on the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology editorial boards.

Co-Chair Doc Consortium
Andreas Richter
Judge Business School
University of Cambridge
a.richter@jbs.cam.ac.uk

Andreas Richter is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (UK). He received his PhD in Management from Aston University (UK). Prior to joining Cambridge, Andreas was Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Instituto de Empresa Business School (Spain), and a post-doctoral research fellow at Aston Business School. His research interests include creativity and innovation in teams, as well team processes and dynamics. He serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, is a Consulting Editor at the Journal of Applied Psychology, and previously was Associate Editor for Applied Psychology: an International Review.

Co-Chair Doc Consortium
Shannon Taylor
College of Business
University of Central Florida (UCF)
sgtaylor@ucf.edu

Shannon Taylor is a Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His research focuses on workplace mistreatment, examining rude, abusive, and unethical behaviors of employees and leaders. His work has appeared in top journals in business and applied psychology and has been featured by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and NPR. He is also a contributor to the Harvard Business Review.

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Kira Schabram
Foster School of Business
University of Washington
schabram@uw.edu

Kira Schabram is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Evert McCabe Endowed Fellow in Private Enterprise at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. She received her doctorate from the University of British Columbia. Kira studies employees who want to “make the world a better place” through their work, the conditions that thwart their efforts, and how to promote human sustainability in the face of such obstacles. Her work has beenpublished in AOM outlets including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Discoveries.


Talya Bauer
The School of Business
Portland State University
talyabauer@pdx.edu

Talya Bauer (Ph.D., Purdue University) is the Cameron Endowed Professor of Management at Portland State University. Talya has regularly been involved in OB division such as being involved in the OB doctoral consortium, OB research incubators, and early and mid-career OB career workshops as a panelist and participant and now as a member of the OB Executive Committee. She is an active researcher who has received grants from NSF and NIH. She is the former Editor of Journal of Management, is on the editorial boards of the Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management as well as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology. She is a Fellow of AOM and SIOP. She studies leadership, the effects of overqualification and loneliness at work as well as the training and onboarding process, and she has advised, consulted with, and done research with government, Fortune 1,000, not-for-profits, and start-up organizations. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week as well as appearing on NPR and KGW News. She has been invited to give talks around the world, including in Australia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the UK, and the United States. She has been a Visiting Professor in France, Italy, Spain, and Google.

Amy Bartels
College of Business
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
amy.bartels@unl.edu

Amy Bartels is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the College of Business, where she teaches organizational behavior and sports management courses. Bartels earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Nebraska. Her research examines the intersection of leaders, teams, and employee well-being and has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and other outlets. Bartels is a member of the Making Connections Committee within the OB Divisions and serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Network of Leadership Scholars. In both positions, she has helped create and run several PDWs such as the Leadership Doctoral Consortium and Work/Life Balance and Burnout. She also serves on the Journal of Management and Personnel Psychology editorial boards.

Christopher Myers
Carey Business School
Johns Hopkins University
cmyers@jhu.edu

Christopher Myers is a Professor of Management & Organization and (jointly) of Medicine and Public Health and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. His research and teaching focus on individual learning, leadership development, and innovation, with particular attention to how people learn vicariously and share knowledge in health care organizations and other knowledge-intensive work environments. Chris has been elected to multiple leadership roles within the Academy of Management and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries, as well as on the Editorial Boards of AMR, AMJ, and AMLE. He has received a variety of awards and honors, including being named by Poets & Quants as one of the top 40 business school professors under 40 world-wide. Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, Chris was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School and received his PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Appointed Positions

Chief Operating Officer
Beth Campbell
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
campbele@umn.edu

Elizabeth (Beth) M. Campbell is a Lawrence Research Fellow and an Associate Professor of Work and Organizations at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management where she teaches management and leadership development. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. Poets & Quants recognized her as a top 40 Under 40 Best Business School Professor. Her research focuses on interpersonal interactions in workgroups with particular focus on the hidden consequences that high performers spark for themselves, their peers, and their teams. She has served on the OB Division Executive Committee in a variety of ways, chairing the Making Connections Committee (MCC; appointed, 2019 - 2021), serving as Representative-at-Large (elected, 2021 - 2024), and serving as Chief Operations Officer (COO; appointed, 2024 - present). She serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology, and is currently learning a lot and having a great time advancing our science as an Associate Editor at Personnel Psychology. Prior to academia, Campbell worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she advised and supported public sector and Fortune 100 leaders in their organizational design, leadership development, and change management efforts

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David Wagner
Lundquist College of Business
University of Oregon
dwagner@uoregon.edu

David Wagner is an associate professor of management, head of the Department of Management, and the Doug McKay Research Scholar at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business. He is a graduate of the Management Department at Michigan State University. Prior to his appointment at the Lundquist College, Wagner was an assistant professor at Singapore Management University where he received multiple awards for his teaching and research. His research examines moods and emotions in the workplace (e.g., emotional labor, employee well-being, creativity); the impact of sleep and fatigue on workplace outcomes (e.g., moral decision making, prejudice, motivation); and the interface between work and life domains.

Event Planner
Laura Erskine
Fielding School of Public Health
University of California - Los Angeles
lerskine@ucla.edu

Laura Erskine is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the MHA Program at UCLA. She is also the Director of the UCLA Center for Healthcare Management. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and her MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. Her teaching interests are in the areas of healthcare, organizational behavior, and leadership. Laura's research interests include the meaning of relational distance in leader-follower relationships, leadership in virtual settings, and pedagogical practices. Laura is an active member of the Academy of Management and is a past president of the New Doctoral Student Consortium. Following her MBA studies, she worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney, in a variety of marketing and strategy roles at Disney Online and FirstLook.com, and as a co-founder of Eureka Review, a Los Angeles-based SAT tutoring company.

Program Developer Director
Mel Fugate
College of Business
Mississippi State University
mel.fugate@outlook.com

Mel Fugate is Professor of Management in Missisippi State University. His primary research interests involve employee reactions to organizational change and transitions at work (e.g., downsizings, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and careers), including employee’s change-related cognitive appraisals, emotions, managerial behaviors, trust, justice, coping efforts, and withdrawal. Other research interests focus on the effects of leadership and organizational culture on individual, group, and organizational performance. This work includes unraveling the role of leadership in changing values and culture.  He also merges his interests in emotions with those in leadership in an adjacent line of work. Yet another stream explores notions of employability and adaptability at work, wherein he developed a dispositional perspective of employability along with a measurement instrument. He is also an award-winning teacher whose experience involves various formats of online teaching and crosses all levels and programs. Prior to joining Mississippi State, he held positions at the University of South Australia, Southern Methodist University, and Tulane University. He completed his PhD in management at Arizona State University and a BS in Engineering and Business Administration from Michigan State University. His previous professional lives included work as a consultant and positions in health care and the pharmaceutical industry.

Program Developer Specialist
Eean R. Crawford
Tippie College of Business
University of Iowa
eean-crawford@uiowa.edu

Eean R. Crawford is an Associate Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Dr. Crawford is a Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow and serves as the Management & Entrepreneurship Department Director of Graduate Studies. He received his doctorate in management from the University of Florida, and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University. He conducts research on employee engagement, team effectiveness, social networks, leadership and personality. His research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He currently teaches Introduction to Management to over 600 undergraduates every year. He is a former recipient of the Cannon Faculty Scholarship for Teaching Excellence in the Tippie College of Business, winner of the 2019 Tippie Collegiate Teaching Award, given to the top instructor in the college, and the winner of the 2021 Gardner Mid-Career Research Award, recognizing a Tippie College associate professor with two years of outstanding research productivity and impact. He has consulted with numerous organizations about their employee engagement and team effectiveness including HNI Corporation, ACT, Panda Restaurant Group, the Veterans Health Administration, the United States Marine Corps, Modine Manufacturing, Acciona Wind Power, ITA Group, and the Masters of Business Administration programs at the University of Florida and Manchester Business School.
Program Developer Specialist
Lance Frazier
Heider College of Business
Creighton University
LanceFrazier@creighton.edu
Lance Frazier is an Associate Professor of Management in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University. He earned his doctorate from Oklahoma State University with an emphasis on organizational behavior. His research focuses on proactivity at work, examining the factors that encourage employees to speak up at work and help their colleagues. These factors include trust, psychological safety, and leadership. His work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology, among others. He is an active member in the Academy of Management and Southern Management Association. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Frazier worked for nearly ten years in the telecommunications industry.

Communications officer
Michael D. Johnson
Foster School of Business
University of Washington
mdj3@uw.edu

Michael D. Johnson is the Boeing Company Endowed Professor of Business Administration in the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Michigan State University in 2006. Michael teaches Organizational Leadership and Leading Organizational Change in Foster’s EMBA and Technology Management MBA programs. He has received numerous teaching and scholarly awards. His research focuses primarily on team effectiveness and emotions at work.

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Communications Officer
Huan (Harry) Wang
School of Business
Siena College
hwang@siena.edu

Huan (Harry) Wang is an Assistant Professor of Management at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. Harry received his PhD from Rutgers University, a Masters in Communication from Northeast Normal University (China), and his bachelor's degree in economics from Simon Fraser University. He has received the Best Reviewer award from the OB Division, the Best Symposium award from the Organizational Neuroscience division, and the Best Paper award from the Chinese Behavioral Sciences Association.

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Making Connections Committee Chair
Anna Lennard
Kelley School of Business
Indiana University
alennard@iu.edu

Dr. Anna C. Lennard is an Associate Professor in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Her research examines affect, justice, and decision making biases in organizations. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Annals, and Oxford OCB Handbook. In addition, her work has been presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management, the International Association of Conflict Management and the Oxford University Reputation Symposium.

Co-Chair Making Connections Committee
Nitya Chawla
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
nchawla@umn.edu

Nitya Chawla is an Assistant Professor of the Work and Organizations Department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. Broadly, Nitya’s research examines how organizations can create inclusive, well-being-focused workplaces that support the full range of employees’ work and non-work identities. Her work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives in Science and Practice. She is an editorial review board member of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology. Within the Academy of Management, Nitya has previously served as the Social Media Director of the Research Methods Division and the Human Resource Division.

Co-Chair Making Connections Committee
Lauren Locklear
Rawls College of Business
Texas Tech University
Lauren.Locklear@ttu.edu

Lauren Locklear is an Assistant Professor of Management at Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on how organizations can foster positive workplace relationships, particularly through expressions of gratitude and appreciation. Her work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Her research has also been featured in media outlets including Psychology Today, Forbes, CNBC, and Inc. Magazine. She is a former Fellow of the Project for Ethical Leadership Excellence and currently serves on the editorial board of Personnel Psychology.


Global Committee Chair
Minna Paunova
Copenhagen Business School
mp.msc@cbs.dk

Minna Paunova is dedicated to fostering equitable workplace dynamics and outcomes in an increasingly complex, globalized world. She is currently an Associate Professor of Management at ESCP Business School (Madrid Campus), where her research explores the intersections of leadership, collaboration, innovation, and equity within diverse organizational settings. Minna earned her PhD in Management (cum laude) from IESE Business School in Barcelona. Before relocating back to Spain, she was a tenured faculty member at Copenhagen Business School, where she held various academic roles, including as an academic program director. She teaches and supervises extensively in leadership, diversity, and international management and is an executive coach certified by INSEAD. Minna serves as an associate editor of Applied Psychology and has been a member of the editorial review boards for several reputable journals, including the Human Resource Management Journal and Academy of Management Review.

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Microcommunities Director
Kate Zipay
Mitchell E. Daniels School of Business
Purdue University
kzipay@purdue.edu

Kate Zipay is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources area at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. Her research examines the influence of life outside of work on employee emotions, attitudes, and contemporary issues of justice on employee outcomes. Her research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.