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Chair-Track Positions
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Chair-Track Positions

Past Division Chair Sigal Barsade Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA barsade@wharton.upenn.edu	Sigal G. Barsade is the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she is the area coordinator of the Organizational Behavior group. Prior to that she was on the faculty of Yale University, and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the influence of affect on work behavior with a focus on affect in groups and team processes; affect and individual outcomes; organizational culture; and diversity and implicit processes. She has published articles about emotional contagion in groups; the influence of emotions on organizational outcomes generally – and on creativity, decision-making and negotiations specifically; emotional intelligence; emotional organizational culture; the outcomes of specific emotions on work performance; affective diversity in top management teams and implicit emotions in organizations. She has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly; Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes and Organization Science, and served as co-associate editor for a special issue of Organization Science – The Psychology of Organizational Networks. Within the Academy of Management she has held the role of Organizational Behavior Division Representative at Large, was a member of the long-range planning committee for the Organizational Behavior Division, has participated as a faculty fellow and panelist in numerous doctoral and junior factory consortia, and has been a judge for multiple Best Paper Awards.
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.
Incoming 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.
Program 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.
Incoming Program Chair Elizabeth George Graduate School of Management University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand e.george@auckland.ac.nz	Dr. Elizabeth George is a Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management of the University of Auckland. She has an active research interest in nonstandard work arrangements and diversity in the workplace. She is a member of multiple editorial boards and has in the past been an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Annals, the Australian Journal of Management, Organizational Psychology Review, and Organization Studies, and co-editor in chief of Organizational Psychology Review. She is currently on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. She has served the OB division as a member of the Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award committee in 2010 and 2011, as a Facilitator in OB Division Doctoral Consortium in 2010, as a speaker for the Global Committee in 2017, and as a session chair, reviewer and presenter. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Auckland, George served on the faculty at the Hong Kong University, Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Queensland and Western Michigan University as well as visiting positions at Duke University and the Indian School of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Organization Science from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Representative-at-Large Positions

Uta Bindl London School of Economics and Political Science London, GB UBindl.aom@gmail.com	Dr Uta Bindl earned her PhD in Work Psychology in 2011 from the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield (UK), her MA in Organisational Management from the University of Flensburg, and her BA in International Business and Management from the University of Applied Sciences Osnabruck (both Germany). Prior to joining the LSE in 2013, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Western Australia. Dr Bindl has published her work in eminent peer-reviewed outlets, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Human Relations. She is currently serving as an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior, as well as an ad-hoc reviewer for several other peer-reviewed journals.
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 School of Business in Washington D.C. Her research focuses on organizational change and virtual work arrangements where the use of technology replaces traditional face-to-face interaction (e.g., virtual teams, telecommuting). Sharon's research has been published in Academy of Management Annals, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology and other outlets. Sharon currently serves on the editorial board at Personnel Psychology. She very much enjoys publishing with and mentoring doctoral students and junior faculty and looks forward to helping to serving their needs as Representative-at-Large.
Oscar Holmes IV School of Business Rutgers University Camden, NJ, USA Oscar.HolmesIV@rutgers.edu	Oscar Holmes IV is an Associate Professor of Management and Director of Access and Outreach for Business Education at Rutgers School of Business-Camden where he teaches executive education, graduate, and undergraduate courses in Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Negotiation, and Crisis Management. His research examines how leaders can maximize productivity and well-being through fostering more inclusive environments and has been published in several top-tier management journals and books. In 2018, he was named one of Poets & Quants 40 Under 40 Best Business School Professors. He serves as a member of the editorial review boards of Organizational Psychology Review, Journal of Business & Psychology, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, Africa Journal of Management and as an ad hoc reviewer for several other management journals. Across AOM, he has served in a number of roles including serving as GDO Division Representative-at-Large from 2014-2017 where he chaired the GDO Jr. Faculty and Doctoral Students consortia and several best paper committees from 2014 to the present. In 2020, he served on the Organizational Behavior Division’s Outstanding Publication in OB Award committee and has been a frequent panelist for the OB Division’s doctoral consortium. Additionally, he is the founder of WHConsulting Firm LLC and creator and host of Diversity Matters podcast. He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in Management from The University of Alabama, M.L.A. from The University of Richmond and a B.S. with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives in New Jersey with his husband, Kris, and their son, Kristian.
Keith Leavitt College of Business, Oregon State University Corvallis, OR, USA	Dr. Keith Leavitt's research interests include behavioral ethics, identity and situated judgment, social judgments, and research methods. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP), the Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Business Ethics. His work has been featured in over 200 news outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Vice News, Wall Street Journal Radio, The Huffington Post, Time Magazine, and prominently on the front of his mother's refrigerator. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, fly fishing, skiing, the occasional existential crisis, and trying to sneak inappropriately-placed messages in to his faculty profile.
Denise Loyd Business Administration, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL, USA loyddl@illinois.edu
Shimul Melwani Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA shimul_melwani@kenan-flagler.unc.edu	Shimul Melwani is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests lie at the intersection of emotions and interpersonal dynamics. She also coordinates the organizational behavior PhD program at Kenan-Flagler. Shimul serves as a member of the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Discoveries and has also served the Academy of Management’s OB Division as a member of the OB Best Paper Award Committee for 2018 and 2019 as well as a panelist in the OB Doctoral Consortium (2017-2018). She also served as a Rep-at-Large for the Conflict Management division (2016-2018).
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).
Payal Sharma Lee Business School University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, USA payal.sharma@unlv.edu	Payal Sharma is Assistant Professor of Management in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She studies power and stress in organizations, with an emphasis on identifying how, and where, people have agency and control in their job settings when challenging situations arise. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on power and politics in organizations and leadership and managerial skills for undergraduate students. She has been an active member of the Academy of Management since 2006. Her engagement has included founding a stress management professional development workshop for junior faculty in 2016 – through which she seeks to promote mind-body health for our field, and which is now held annually. In addition, she was a co-organizer for the Organizational Behavior and Conflict Management Divisions' PDW and Junior Faculty Consortium in 2018, Being Successful Despite Demands, Distractions, and Difficult Situations. More recently, she served as a committee member to help select the paper winner of the 2020 Outstanding Practical Implications for Management Award for AOM. Prior to joining the faculty at UNLV, Sharma was a visiting faculty member at the Wharton School and tenure-track faculty member at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick. Her professional experience includes working for Harvard Business School, as an External Relations special events organizer; and at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), as a human capital specialist. She is an avid yogi who also enjoys boxing, spin, and strength training classes, and spending time with her dogs, Chai and Samosa (Sammie).
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.

Ongoing Positions

COO Brad Kirkman Poole College of Mgt. North Carolina State Univ. Raleigh, NC, USA brad_kirkman@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.
Communication officer Michael D. Johnson Foster School of Business University of Washington Seattle, USA mdj3@uw.edu	Michael D. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Management and Organization, and 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. He has previously served on the OB Division’s Social Media and Making Connections committees. His research focuses primarily on team effectiveness, social identities, 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 Acting Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the MPH Programs in Health Policy and Management at UCLA. 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 the University of Western Ontario. 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. She is the Logistics Coordinator for the Network of Leadership Scholars 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 Officer Alex Gerbasi University of Exeter, Exeter, UK a.gerbasi@exeter.ac.uk	Alexandra Gerbasi is Professor of Leadership and Head of the Department of Management at the University of Exeter Business School. Alexandra’s research focus on social networks and leadership within organisations. Her work has appeared in world leading journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Leadership Quarterly. Alexandra graduated with distinction from Duke University and earned a PhD in social psychology at Stanford University.Alexandra has worked at Stanford University, Grenoble Ecole de Management, the University of Surrey, and the University of Exeter. She has researched and worked with leaders across the world in a variety of sectors, including consulting, defence, energy, finance, government, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Program Developer Officer 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 Officer 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 and Organizations and Director of Graduate Studies of Management and Organizations in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He received his doctorate in management in 2011 from the University of Florida, and his MAcc and B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University in 2006. As a Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow, he conducts research on employee engagement, team effectiveness, leadership, and personality. His research has been published Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Psychology, and a member of SIOP and the Academy of Management (OB, HR, and RM divisions). His research has been recognized with SIOP’s 2012 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award and the AOM HR Division 2014 Scholarly Achievement Award. from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. This award was given to the authors of the most significant article in Human Resource Management published in 2013. He has consulted with numerous organizations about their team effectiveness including HNI, ACT, Panda Restaurant Group, the Veterans Health Administration, the United States Marine Corps, Modine Manufacturing, Acciona Wind Power, and ITA Group.
Program Developer Officer Lance Frazier LanceFrazier@creighton.edu
Making Connections Committee Beth Campbell Carlson School of Mgmt University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA campbele@umn.edu	Elizabeth (Beth) Campbell is a Lawrence Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of Work and Organizations at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management where she teaches management and leadership development. In 2019, 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 currently serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. Campbell has served the OB Division in a variety of ways, including conference reviewing, chairing sessions, speaking at consortia for doctoral students, leading the OB Ambassadors effort, and co-organizing the annual Productivity Process professional development workshop for the last six years. Prior to academia, she worked in consulting for Deloitte, where she advised and supported public sector and Fortune 100 leaders in their organizational design, leadership development, and change management efforts.
Global Committee Chair Alexander Newman Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University Melbourne Burwood Campus Melbourne, Australia a.newman@deakin.edu.au	Alex Newman is a Professor of Management and Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University, Australia. He conducts research in the disciplines of leadership, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship and human resource management. He is Chair of the International Network at the Australian Business Dean's Council and Chair of the Global Committee of the Organizational Behavior Division at the Academy of 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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