2022-2023 Schedule:

• Oct. 6, 2022 – 8 pm-9:30 pm ET
• Nov. 18, 2022 – 3 pm – 4:30 pm ET
• Feb. 10, 2023 – 3pm – 4:30 pm ET
• Mar. 24, 2023 – 3 pm – 4:30 pm ET

Dr. Zeki Simsek, Clemson University

Zeki Simsek is a Professor of Management and Gressette Chair of Business Strategy and Planning at the College of Business. Prior to this appointment he held the Eversource Scholar of Technological Entrepreneurship and Ackerman Scholar at the University of Connecticut. Simsek’s research focuses on strategic leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. His papers regularly appear in the field’s premier outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management, among others. The New England Journal of Entrepreneurship in 2016 recognized Simsek as one of the most influential authors globally in entrepreneurship research in the 21st century as a result of his research output in top-tier management journals from 2000 to 2015. A recent analysis measuring scholarly impact in management education in the Academy of Management Learning and Education put Simsek in the top 1.6 percent out of more than 6,325 authors in the area of strategic management. An award winning teacher, Simsek has taught executives, masters, undergraduates, and Ph.D. students…

Dr. In-Sue Oh (PhD, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa) is the Charles E. Beury Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University.

His research and teaching interests include personnel selection constructs (e.g., personality, cognitive ability) and methods (meta-analysis, employment interviews), strategic human resource management and human capital resources, and person-organization relationships (e.g., person-organization fit, support). Dr. Oh has published over 80 scholarly articles with many of them in top tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has received many scholarly awards including the two most prestigious early career contributions awards in his field of research: the 2014 Early Career Achievement Award from the Academy of Management (AOM) HR Division and the 2016 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)…

Dr. In-Sue Oh, Temple University

Dr. Piers Steel, University of Calgary

2011-current Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
2006-2011 Associate Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
2002-2006 Assistant Professor, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

Academic Preparation

University of Minnesota – I/O Psychology (1997-2002)
Doctoral Thesis: “The measurement and nature of procrastination.”
University of Guelph – I/O Psychology (1993-1995)
Masters Thesis: “The effects of inconsistencies among sex, gender, and job on promotion and pay raises.”
University of Toronto – Bachelor of Arts (1987-1992)
Completed a double major in psychology and philosophy with a political science minor…

Dr. Oscar Holmes IV, Rutgers University

Main research interests include examining how leaders can maximize productivity and well-being by fostering more inclusive environments that mitigate interpersonal and organizational threats. Specifically, his research investigates how people respond to social identity threats and construct positive identities as well as factors that lead to biased decision-making. His research has been published in several academic journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Africa Journal of Management, Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.

Professional Activities, Honors and Awards:

• Philadelphia Tribune 2020 Top 10 Under 40 Most Influential African Americans to Watch
• Diversity MBA 2020 Top 100 Under 50 Emerging and Executive Leaders
• Front Runner New Jersey 2020 African American Power List
• Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40 Honoree (2020)…

Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how algorithmic management is changing the modern workplace, especially individual’s behaviors at work. Professor Cameron has an on-going, five-year ethnography of the largest employer in the gig economy, the ride-hailing industry, exploring how algorithms are fundamentally reshaping the nature of managerial control. She is currently studying how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting gig workers on different platforms (e.g., TaskRabbit, Instacart, AmazonFlex) as well as examining how ride-hailing drivers on three continents navigate disputes. Professor Cameron’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Process, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and proceedings of the Association of Computing Machinery and the Academy of Management…

Dr. Lindsey Cameron, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Dr. Katina Sawyer, University of Arizona

Katina Sawyer joined the Eller College of Management in 2022. Before coming to Eller, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Management at the George Washington University and as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Human Resource Development at Villanova University. She earned a dual-PhD in Psychology (Industrial-Organizational) and Women’s Studies from the Pennsylvania State University in 2012 and a BA in Psychology from Villanova University in 2006. Her research focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations, positive organizational scholarship, and employee well-being. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Society for Human Resource Management, as well as various early-career research awards. She has also received both national and university-wide early-career teaching awards. Finally, in alignment with her focus on practical impact, she was awarded with the Presidential Scientist-Practitioner Distinction from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2019…

Dr. Kristen Shockley, University of Georgia

My main area of research focuses on understanding the intersection of employees’ work and family lives. Specifically, I have conducted research aimed at understanding organizational initiatives to help employees managing competing life demands (i.e., flexible work arrangements); research that explores the relationship between work-family conflict and health outcomes, including eating behaviors and physiological indicators of health; research that addresses the theoretical foundations of work-family interactions; and research targeted at understanding how dual-earner couples balance work and family roles.

My secondary area of interest is in career development, with a specific focus on workplace and academic mentoring, people’s idiosyncratic definitions of career success, and the consequences of career compromise.

Dr. Ryan Krause is a Professor of strategy at Texas Christian University’s, Neeley School of Business.

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Boards of Directors
• Strategic Leadership
• Top Management Teams
• Stakeholder Management

Honors and Awards

• 2020 Emerging Scholar Award, Strategic Management Society
• 2019 Deans’ Research and Creativity Award, TCU
• 2019 Best Reviewer Award, Strategic Management Journal
• 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Academy of Management Journal
• 2016 Ascendant Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management

Dr. Ryan Krause, Texas Christian University

Dr. Tim Quigley, University of Georgia

Tim is the Georgia Athletic Assocation Professor of Management in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. He also graduated from Penn State with an Executive MBA and a BS in Exercise Science.

Tim studies corporate governance with a particular focus on CEOs, the impact they have on their organizations, and how this is affected by various factors including prior experiences and compensation. His work has been published in a range of outlets, including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. His work has been covered by media outlets such as Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Fortune. Tim is an Associate Editor with Strategic Management Journal.

Tim teaches courses related to strategic management, executive decision making, and statistics.

Before entering academia, Tim worked in several information technology related roles at startups and larger firms. In his younger days Tim was a competitive cyclist on the US National team, won several national championships, and was an alternate on the 1992 Olympic Team.

Dr. Lillian Eby, University of Georgia

She joined the University of Georgia in 1996 and is a Professor of Psychology in the Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology Program. Broadly speaking, her research interests are in the area of relationships and occupational health, with a special emphasis on mentoring and the healthcare workforce. Over the past 20+ years She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in scholarly outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, among others. She has also co-edited three books with her longtime collaborator and close friend, Dr. Tammy Allen [Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring (2007), Personal Relationships (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Work and Family (2016). She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Applied Psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management and Association for Psychological Science, and the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research. To support of her research on work stress, turnover, and mentoring among the healthcare workforce, she has received several large grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse focusing on stress, burnout and turnover among the substance abuse treatment workforce.

Zhen Zhang received his PhD from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University in China. Before joining SMU in 2020, Zhen worked at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University for twelve years, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses of Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Cross-Cultural Management, and advanced research methods.

Zhen’s research focuses on leadership process and leadership development, work teams and groups, biological basis of work behavior, start-ups and entrepreneurship, and advanced research methods. His work has appeared in several leading management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Leadership Quarterly, and has been cited in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Globe and Mail. Zhen currently serves as an Associate Editor at Personnel Psychology, and he will step into the Editor-in-Chief role for the 2023-2025 term.

Zhen’s consulting experience includes his work with a variety of companies and non-profit organizations including leading manufacturing companies in Germany, commercial banks, pharmaceutical companies, and research and development labs in China, as well as state and federal government agencies and Silicon Valley start-ups in the United States.

Dr. Zhen Zhang, Southern Methodist University

Dr. Tim Quigley, University of Georgia

Tim is the Georgia Athletic Assocation Professor of Management in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. He also graduated from Penn State with an Executive MBA and a BS in Exercise Science.

Tim studies corporate governance with a particular focus on CEOs, the impact they have on their organizations, and how this is affected by various factors including prior experiences and compensation. His work has been published in a range of outlets, including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. His work has been covered by media outlets such as Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and Fortune. Tim is an Associate Editor with Strategic Management Journal.

Tim teaches courses related to strategic management, executive decision making, and statistics.

Before entering academia, Tim worked in several information technology related roles at startups and larger firms. In his younger days Tim was a competitive cyclist on the US National team, won several national championships, and was an alternate on the 1992 Olympic Team.