COO Brad Kirkman Poole College of Mgt. North Carolina State Univ. Raleigh, NC, USA brad_kirkman@ncsu.edu
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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 Natalia (Nataly) Lorinkova McDonough School of Business Georgetown University Washington DC, USA Nataly.Lorinkova@ georgetown.edu
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Dr. Natalia (Nataly) M. Lorinkova is an assistant professor at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington DC. She completed her PhD in Management at the R. H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Her research focuses on leadership and social diversity issues (with emphases on dynamic and multi-level leadership processes and accent, body image, and time-theft issues in organizations). Nataly also examines interpersonal dynamics in non-traditional work arrangements such as virtual teams, teleworking, and working from home. From a methodological perspective, Nataly is interested in growth modeling, multi-level modeling and, most recently, polynomial surface plotting techniques. Her research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology and Journal of Management. Dr. Lorinkova is a member of the Academy of Management (OB, GDO, and RM divisions) and her work has received best paper awards and included in the best conference papers proceedings (HR and OB divisions). |
Event Planner Laura Erskine University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA lerskine@ucla.edu
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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
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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
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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 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.
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Program Developer Officer Lance Frazier LanceFrazier@creighton.edu
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CTO Darren B Karunanithi School of Business Univ. of N. British Columbia Prince George, BC, Canada dharan@ieee.org
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Darren B Karunanithi is an Assistant Professor in School of Business at the University of N.British Columbia, Canada. He has completed his PhD in Leadership (2019) at the Research School of Management, Australian National University, Australia. He has also received a PhD in Data Compression(Field: Computer Science and Engineering) and an MBA from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He was on the faculty of Korea University, South Korea and Feng Chia University, Taiwan. In the engineering field, he has published more than 41 research papers in well-regarded journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. In 2012, based on his contribution to Information and Communication Technologies, the government of Taiwan presented him with an unconditional Permanent Residency status (Plum Blossom card), which grants special and prestigious status in Taiwan. Also, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recognized his professional contributions by awarding him the IEEE Senior Member grade, which is the highest honor and international recognition for engineering professionals. In the management field, his work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Business Ethics and Leadership Quarterly. His current research interests include leader humility, paradoxical leadership, knowledge hiding, innovation ambidexterity, entrepreneurship, Internet Of Things (IoT), and Video Coding. |
Digital Specialist Carys Chan carys.chan@rmit.edu.au
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Making Connections Committee Beth Campbell Carlson School of Mgmt University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA campbele@umn.edu
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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. |