Alumni

Rohit Piplani {2024}

Assistant Professor in the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Rohit is an assistant professor in the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. He adopts a social network perspective to explore the influence of network characteristics and behaviors on individual, dyadic, and team-level outcomes. His dissertation uses a three-study, multimethod approach to investigate the affective and relational consequences of network brokering behaviors in the workplace. His work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Elizabeth Klock {2023}

Assistant Professor in the Department of Management in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University

Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Connecticut. Currently, she is interested in researching team composition, team processes & states, and research methods. Her dissertation uses a three-study, multimethod approach to investigate how humility emerges at the collective level over time. Her work research has been published in various academic outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, and Small Group Research.

Adam Roebuck {2023}

Assistant Professor in the Management Department at Manning School of Business

Adam Roebuck is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Manning School of Businessat the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Ph.D. in the management at the University of Connecticut. His research interests fall under the umbrella of team network dynamics, with a special interest in general team cognition, the processes that facilitate team cognition, and how teams coordinate the use of their cognition. He holds an M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Roosevelt University and a B.A. in Psychology from Michigan State University. His work has appeared in, for example, the Journal of Management, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and Journal of Managerial Psychology.

Monique Domingo {2022}

Assistant Professor in the Rucks Department of Management at Louisiana State University

Monique Domingo is an Assistant Professor in the Rucks Department of Management at Louisiana State University with an emphasis in Organizational Behavior. She broadly focuses on leadership and teams but is primarily interested in how leadership is a system of behaviors that can cultivate team and organizational effectiveness, especially in reaction and response to critical and disruptive events. Her award-winning dissertation featured leaders’ crisis management overtime and her research has appeared in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Small Group Research. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Management from San Francisco State University in Spring 2015 and has previously worked in the banking and exporting industries.

Peter Gallagher {2022}

Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina A&T

Peter Gallagher is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina A&T. His primary area of interest is understanding how leaders and teams utilize and develop human capital in such a way that they contribute to their organizations winning sustainably. He work is published in the Journal of Management and Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. Prior to Academia, Peter Gallagher received his B.A. (Business Administration – Accounting) from the University of Washington, M.S. (Taxation) from Golden Gate University, and is also a CPA (Inactive) and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area with Deloitte and Spott, Lucey & Wall CPA’s as an International Tax Consultant to Public-Traded and Privately-Held Business Ventures as well as High Net-Worth Individuals.

Semin Park {2019}

Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State

Semin Park's primary area of interest is relational dynamics within and between teams, in which she has conducted applied research on multilevel models of effectiveness at the individual, team, and multiteam system levels. She integrates network and multi-level approaches, leveraging unique data streams, to model and understanding the dynamics of complex systems over time. Her work has appeared in Organizational Research Methods, American Psychologist, and the Academy of Management Review.

Mikhail A. Wolfson {2018}

Assistant Professor of Management, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky

Mikhail’s research is primarily in the areas of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. He focuses on advancing configural approaches of team composition that account for individuals’ characteristics and interrelations among team members. More generally, his research interests include team composition, informal learning, multilevel modeling, network analysis, and unobtrusive measurement. Mikhail’s work has been featured in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology and American Psychologist.

Dale Watson {2017}

Assistant Teaching Professor of Management, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Retired Colonel, United States Army, Aviation Branch. Led teams of all sizes throughout my career as an attack helicopter pilot and developed adaptive leaders at each level.
Former Chair for the Department of Command Leadership & Management, at the U.S. Army War College, where I taught strategic leadership, preparing senior officers to thrive in complex and competitive environments. Research interests include strategic leadership, team adaptation and resiliency, and multi-team effectiveness.

Margaret Luciano {2015}

Associate Professor of Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University

Margaret Luciano's research focuses on teams, multiteam systems, and leadership, with a particular interest in healthcare settings. Notably, her research on understanding and enhancing the quality of patient handoffs won competitive international awards. Margaret’s research has been funded by corporate and government grants and published in leading academic and practitioner outlets (e.g., Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review). Margaret serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in Management and received both a B.A. (Psychology) and M.B.A. (Management) from Clark University.

Lauren D'Innocenzo {2014}

Associate Professor of Management, LeBow College of Business at Drexel University

Lauren D’Innocenzo research focuses on understanding team effectiveness by exploring compositional elements, contextual influences, as well as emergent team dynamics. Using an applied research approach, Lauren has worked with a number of Fortune 500, governmental agencies, and hospitals in a variety of capacities including data-driven research, executive education programs, interventions, executive reporting, and consulting.

The current focus of Lauren’s research involves understanding drivers of surgical team effectiveness including patient safety and operating room efficiency. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management.

Michael R. Kukenberger {2012}

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at University of New Hampshire

Michael R. Kukenberger is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Management Department at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Michael’s primary areas of research include shared and team leadership, team effectiveness, and team and individual learning.

His work has been published in such outlets as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Human Relations and Group and Organizational Management. Consulting in the area of leadership and team dynamics, Michael has worked with several Fortune 500s (e.g., GE Aviation, Xerox, Alcoa, etc.) the armed services (i.e., U.S. Army) and the Center for Disease Control.

Tammy Rapp {2009}

Associate Professor and Robert H. Freeman Professor in Business. Associate Director, College of Business Honors Program, OHIO University

Tammy Rapp’s research focuses on the factors that support team effectiveness, with specific interest in team processes, emergent states, team leadership, and multiple team memberships.

Her research has been published in journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Small Group Research, and Human Performance. She serves as Associate Editor for Group and Organization Management, as well as Co-Editor of the 2021 Conceptual Issue for that journal. Tammy is a member of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup). Prior to entering academics, she spent 10 years working in the financial services industry.

M. Travis Maynard {2007}

Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Management, Management Department at Colorado State University

Dr. Maynard teaches team effectiveness and leadership classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at CSU where he has been nominated for a variety of teaching awards. Additionally, Travis has provided numerous talks to industry members on tactics they can employ to improve their team’s performance levels.

Travis’s research interests include team effectiveness and leadership. Specifically, his research interests include the role that team contextual variables have on team interactions and outcomes. He is currently conducting research projects with the U.S. Army and NASA looking at team resilience and adaptation. He has received several research awards for his publications in the Journal of Management, and has also published in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Group & Organization Management, Small Group Research, Organizational Psychology Review, and Human Performance.