COO Alex Gerbasi University of Exeter, Exeter, UK a.gerbasi@exeter.ac.uk
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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
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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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Communication officer Wladislaw (Wlad) Rivkin Trinity Business School Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland rivkinw@tcd.ie
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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
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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.
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Program Developer Director Jessica Methot School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ, USA jmethot@smlr.rutgers.edu
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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
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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.
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Program Developer Specialist Lance Frazier LanceFrazier@creighton.edu
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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.
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Making Connections Committee Margaret Luciano Smeal College of Business Pennsylvania State University Centre County, PA, USA mzl6016@psu.edu
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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.
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Global Committee Chair Marjo-Ritta Diehl Aalto University School of Business Aalto University Espoo, Finland marjo-riitta.diehl@aalto.fi
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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.
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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. |