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Past Division Chair Daan van Knippenberg LeBow College of Business Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, USA dlv39@drexel.edu	Daan van Knippenberg is Joseph F. Rocereto Chair of Leadership at the LeBow College of Business, Drexel University. Daan served as Editor-in-Chief Academy of Management Annals (2016-2019), Associate Editor Academy of Management Journal (2013-2016), editorial board Academy of Management Annals (2013-2016) and Academy of Management Journal (2011-2013; 2016-present), and on several awards committees (OB Division Mentoring Award 2015-2016; OB Division Best Paper with International Implications Award 2015; OB Division Best Published Paper 2011-2013; HR Division Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award 2015-2016; Network of Leadership Scholars Eminent Leadership Scholar Award 2013). Outside AOM he has served as member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, as Editor Organizational Psychology Review, Associate Editor Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Organizational Behavior, and serves or has served as editorial board member of 14 other journals. Daan is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and of the American Psychological Association. Daan’s core expertise is in leadership, diversity, team performance, creativity, and social identity; topics in which he also teaches in in-company, MBA, PhD, and Msci programs.
Division Chair Ron Piccolo College of Business University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, USA rpiccolo@ucf.edu	Dr. Ronald F. Piccolo is the Chair of the Department of Management and the Galloway Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. From 2009 – 2016, he served as the Cornell Professor of Management and Academic Director of the Center for Leadership Development & Executive Education in the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. Dr. Piccolo earned a Ph.D. in management from the University of Florida, an M.B.A. from Rollins, and a Bachelors of Science in mathematics from Stetson University. He has been a visiting scholar at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, and the Amsterdam Business School. Dr. Piccolo teaches or has taught graduate-level courses in leadership, organizational behavior (OB), research methods, and management strategy. At Rollins College, he was the recipient of the Cornell Distinguished Teaching Award (2015-2016) and the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award (2011-2012) for outstanding teaching, research and service, and he was a keynote speaker (2012, 2013, 2014) on “Teaching Effectiveness” for the OB division of the Academy of Management.
Incoming Division Chair Rebecca Bennett College of Business University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, USA Rebecca.Bennett@ucf.edu	Dr. Rebecca (Becky) Bennett is a Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. She studies the “dark side” of organizational behavior (employee deviance), insider threats to cyber security, embeddedness, pay communication, touch in the workplace, and forgiveness. Bennett has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has served the OB division as a new member mentor (2017, 2018), as a member of the Best Dissertation-based paper committee (2005, 2008), and as a reviewer, symposium organizer, presenter, and discussant.
Program Chair Elizabeth George Graduate School of Management University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand e.george@auckland.ac.nz	Elizabeth George (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is a Professor of Management at the University of Auckland. 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.
Incoming Program Chair Bradley L. Kirkman Poole College of Management North Carolina State University. Raleigh, North Carolina blkirkma@ncsu.edu	Bradley L. Kirkman is the General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Department Head of 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, virtual 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, and Leadership Quarterly. 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, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Psychology Review. He also received Outstanding Reviewer Awards from AMJ in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2011. He has conducted research, presented papers, and taught in several countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Dubai (UAE), England, Finland, France, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States.Representative-at-Large Positions

PDW Chair Regina Brands UCL School of Management, University College London London, GB r.brands@ucl.ac.uk	Dr Raina Brands is an Associate Professor at University College London School of Management. Prior to joining UCL SOM, she was on the faculty at London Business School She received her doctorate from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on social networks – informal relationships that are the heart of organizational life – and how these informal workplace networks can present hidden barriers to diversity and inclusion. A core focus of her research is to understand how social networks shape women’s careers and outcomes, and how to intervene in these processes to create more meritocratic and inclusive organizations. As an executive educator, she has developed targeted training to assist leaders – especially aspiring women and members of racial minority groups – to build more effective networks and overcome stereotyping and bias. Additionally, she teaches executives how to inspire change through relational architecture. Her work has been published in the top international journals in the field of management and psychology. Raina’s work has also garnered international press coverage in the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Harvard Business School, The Huffington Post and Glamour Magazine. She serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, and Administrative Science Quarterly.
Awards Chair David Wagner Lundquist College of Business University of Oregon Eugene, OR, USA dwagner@uoregon.edu	David Wagner is the Doug McKay Research Scholar and Associate Professor of Management 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 research and teaching. Wagner studies the interface between work and life domains, with an eye toward human sustainability. This work examines mechanisms related to moods and emotions, social interactions, and sleep and fatigue. His research has been published in outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Sleep Research. Findings from this research have made their way into popular outlets including Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (“That’s right, what you lose in sleep, you gain in mortal danger!”), and, much to the delight of his mother, Costco Magazine. Wagner has also contributed directly to policy, testifying before a special commission of the Massachusetts state legislature. In addition to his research and teaching activities, Wagner has served the OB division in numerous capacities, regularly hosting tables at the OB Division Making Connections session, and mentoring doctoral students at various consortia during the AOM annual meeting. Wagner currently serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Discoveries, where he is a founding editorial board member.
Strategic Initiatives Shimul Melwani Kenan-Flagler Business School UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Co-Chair Doctorate Consortium Oscar Holmes IV School of Business Rutgers University Camden, NJ, USA Oscar.HolmesIV@rutgers.edu	Oscar Holmes IV is a Ph.D. student of Management/Organizational Behavior at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at The University of Alabama. His research interests include understanding how managers can mitigate interpersonal and organizational conflict by examining the antecedents and outcomes of organizational climates. He received a B.S. in Psychology from VCU with a minor in Spanish and Human Resource Management. He has studied abroad extensively, which gives him equivalent coursework for a Bachelor's in Spanish. His studies have taken him to Mexico, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. He has also traveled to Puerto Rico on numerous occasions and has served as an interpreter for medical personnel in Honduras. He earned a Master's of Liberal Arts degree in International and American Cultural Studies from The University of Richmond. In 2006, Mr. Holmes participated in Stanford University's rigorous Graduate School of Business Summer Institute in General Management, where he studied the eight fundamental business areas for four weeks in Palo Alto, California. Mr. Holmes attended the Chesapeake Bay Governor’s School and King and Queen County Public Schools where he graduated Valedictorian of his high school class. He is a public speaker, activist, and proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He can be reached at oholmesiv@cba.ua.edu and on Twitter @OHIV.
Co-Chair Doctorate Consortium Beth Campbell Carlson School of Mgmt University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA 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 Campbell 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 currently serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. Campbell has focused her OB Division service on building programming that forges high-quality connections, promotes research rigor, and broadens inclusivity in our large Division. Specifically, she co-designed OB Doctoral Consortium (2022), led the Making Connections Committee—a group talented citizens who deliver the Division’s flagship PDWs and social events (2019-2021), served as OB Membership Liaison (2017–2019), chaired the OB Ambassadors group (2017-2019), co-organized and/or presented at 12+ PDWs, including the popular “Productivity Process” workshop (2014-2021). Prior to academia, Campbell worked for Deloitte Consulting, where she advised and supported public and private sector leaders in change management, leadership development, and organizational design.
Strategic Initiatives Celia Moore Bocconi University Milan, Italy celia.moore@unibocconi.it	Celia Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on how organizations facilitate morally problematic behavior, and how individuals can exercise their agency to steer organizations for the better. Celia is currently an Academic Fellow of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative, a collaborator at EthicalSystems.Org, and sits on the UK’s Banking Standards Board Assessment Steering Committee. Her service to the Academy of Management includes sitting on the academy-wide Ethics Adjudication Committee (2018-2021), as well as serving on the committee to select the William H. Newman Award, which recognizes the best annual meeting paper based on a dissertation (2018), and the committee to select the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior (2019).
Co-Chair Jr Faculty Consortium Cecily Cooper Miami Herbert Business School University of Miami Miami, FL, USA ccooper@bus.miami.edu	Dr. Cecily Cooper is an Associate Professor of Management at the Miami Herbert Business School. According to Elsevier BV and Stanford University (doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.3), in 2021, Dr. Cooper was ranked in the worldwide top 2% scientists (based on single year 2020) in business & management and social psychology. Her research interests include trust, trust repair, humor, and leadership. This research has been published in many leading Management journals and has received three national conference awards. Dr. Cooper is a Guest Associate Editor at Academy of Management Review for a special issue on trust in organizations. In addition, she serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has co-authored a textbook, Mastering Organizational Behavior (14th edition), that was published in May 2017. Dr. Cooper also serves in various leadership roles. She is a member of the executive board of FINT (First International Network on Trust) and hosts their quarterly virtual seminar series. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management (Rep-at-Large). Prior to joining the University of Miami, Dr. Cooper received her B.S. from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida and her Ph.D. from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Dr. Cooper has a keen interest in creating close partnerships with organizations when conducting research and focuses on providing value to these organizations. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida with her twin daughters.
Co-Chair Jr Faculty Consortium Payal Sharma Lee Business School University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, USA payal.sharma@unlv.edu	Payal N. Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a qualitative researcher who studies power in organizations and teaches courses on power and leadership. Her research to date has examined how leaders how are impacted by stress and trauma, as well as dynamics involving empowering leadership and workplace trauma. She received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Maryland, College Park. She was recently selected by the Women’s Council at UNLV as the 2022 Growth, Inclusivity, Voice and Excellence (GIVE) faculty/staff award recipient for her efforts towards diversity, equity and inclusion. She regularly conducts workshops and trainings on topics including leadership development and stress management, and has been an invited speaker across a range of industries including health care, higher education, hospitality, and information technology. She enjoys weightlifting, boxing, boot camp, and yoga classes, and spending time with her dogs, Chai and Samosa (Sammie).
Strategic Initiatives N. Sharon Hill GW School of Business George Washington Univ. Washington, DC, USA nshill@gwu.edu	N. Sharon Hill is an associate professor of management at the George Washington University School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Business and Management from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on organizational change, teamwork, and virtual work (e.g., virtual teams, telecommuting, mobile work) where the use of technology replaces traditional face-to-face interaction. Her articles have appeared in leading outlets such as Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, and Organizational Research Methods. She is on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology and Organization Science. She previously worked for multinational companies in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, and the United States, including roles in information technology, six sigma quality improvement, organizational change, as well as corporate training and development.

Ongoing Positions

COO Alex Gerbasi University of Exeter, Exeter, UK a.gerbasi@exeter.ac.uk	Alexandra Gerbasi is the Dean of the University of Exeter Business School. She joined the University of Exeter in 2017. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Surrey, Grenoble Ecole de Management and California State University, Northridge. She received her Ph.D. is sociology from Stanford University and her undergraduate degree from Duke University. Her research focuses on the effects of positive and negative network ties within the workplace, and their effects on performance, leadership, well-being, thriving, affect and turnover. In addition, her research addresses how individuals recognize opportunities for collaboration and advancement in their networks. Her research has appeared in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Organizational Dynamics. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Agence Nationale de la Recherche. She has formerly served as the Head of Department of Management, the Deputy Dean of the Business School.
Communication officer Michael D. Johnson Foster School of Business University of Washington Seattle, USA 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.
Communication officer Wladislaw (Wlad) Rivkin Trinity Business School Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland rivkinw@tcd.ie	Wladislaw (Wlad) Rivkin is an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at Trinity Business School. He has completed his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dortmund. Before joining Trinity College Dublin, he worked at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Germany, and at Aston University in the UK. Wlad’s research agenda focuses on how to maintain and improve employees’ health, well-being, and effectiveness from stressors, which require employees’ self-regulation. He has vast expertise in applying experience sampling methodology (i.e. daily diary studies) and multilevel research. His research was published in leading journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Wlad has a track record as a PI of several research projects funded by national governments, Industry, and the European Union. These projects focused on developing and evaluating organizational interventions to facilitate employee effectiveness involving leadership training and work design. He is currently leading the Diversity Innovation Support Scheme for SME (DINNOS) project funded by the European Union’s H2020 program.
Event Planner Laura Erskine University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA lerskine@ucla.edu	Laura Erskine is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the MPH Program in Health Policy and Management at UCLA. She is also the Co-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 area 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 emergent leadership in the context of collective action. 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 Jessica Methot School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ, USA jmethot@smlr.rutgers.edu	Jessica Methot is an associate professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She conducts research at the intersection of interpersonal workplace relationships and social network dynamics, such as how team processes promote trust and team effectiveness and the functional and dysfunctional consequences of workplace friendships. Her work in these areas has been published in outlets including Academy of Management Review, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business and Psychology, Human Resource Management Review, Occupational Stress and Well-Being, and The SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series; her research has been featured in popular media outlets such as NPR, USA Today, Fast Company, Marie Claire Magazine, HR Morning, and Human Resource Executive Online; and she is active in professional organizations including the Academy of Management, the International Network for Social Network Analysis, the Positive Relationships at Work Microcommunity, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Program Developer Associate Director Vacant	N/A
Program Developer Specialist Eean R. Crawford Tippie College of Business University of Iowa Iowa, IA, USA 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 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.
Making Connections Committee Margaret Luciano Smeal College of Business Pennsylvania State University Centre County, PA, USA 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.
Global Committee Chair Marjo-Ritta Diehl Aalto University School of Business Aalto University Espoo, Finland marjo-riitta.diehl@aalto.fi	Marjo-Riitta (Maikki) Diehl is Associate Professor of Management and Organization at Aalto University School of Business in Finland. She has previously served as Vice Dean Research and Professor at EBS Business School in Germany. She received her PhD at London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) in 2006. Before joining the academia, she worked at the International Labor Office in Switzerland. Maikki’s research focuses on issues of organizational justice and fairness at work and gender and women’s leadership. Her work has appeared in journals such Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Journal of Business Ethics. Maikki serves in the reviewer boards of Journal of Organizational Behavior and International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Treasurer Bret Bradley Dept. of Management and International Business University of Oklahoma Norman, OK, USA bret-bradley@ou.edu	Bret Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Oklahoma. His research intersects the areas of small group dynamics, team performance, leadership, and ethics. He studies workplace issues such as conflict management, problem employees, entrepreneurial team dynamics, expertise maximization, workplace deviance, multi-team systems, and emotion regulation. He is on the editorial board of Small Group Research, and has published articles at Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management.

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