Who Are We?

William C. Scott is a final-year PhD Candidate at Michigan State University and holds a Masters degree in Organizational Psychology. He has contributed to the growing field of research on employee well-being and organizational justice/fairness, with his Masters thesis being focused on the development of a measure of contributive justice which examined how fairness in employees’ opportunities to make meaningful contributions in the workplace was related to feelings of meaningful work, self-esteem, Read more […]

Shawn Brogan Diddy is a Management PhD candidate at Walden University whose work explores humanistic management and emotional literacy through the intersection of grief and bereavement, human dignity, and organizational leadership. Her dissertation investigates how managers navigate between organizational imperatives and the human needs of bereaved employees. Using narrative inquiry, she examines how dignity can be upheld or violated in these emotionally charged contexts and how grief literacy Read more […]

Selene Islas holds a PhD in Administrative Sciences from EGADE Business School. During her studies, she visited different communities and organizations for academic fieldwork, where she had the opportunity to learn from their perspectives and ultimately collaborate on various research projects, resulting in work published in renowned journals. Selene is passionate about topics related to social innovation and dignity. She has brought this enthusiasm not only to her research but also to her Read more […]

Ace V. Simpson is Visiting Professor of Management at Manhattan University and Director of the Center for Compassion Studies in New York. His research explores the intersection of positive organizational scholarship and critical management studies, with a focus on workplace compassion, humility, and psychological safety—while also addressing power dynamics, bullying, and toxic leadership through paradox and critical lenses. Ace serves as a research advisor to the Center for Positive Read more […]

Arti Sharma, Ph.D., is an early career academician, researcher, and consultant in Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, working at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT-H) in India. She completed her doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM-I), studying the impact and implications of group affective compositions. Her principal work is in Emotions (micro, meso & macro levels), team dynamics, team design, Read more […]

Shawn Brogan Diddy is a distinguished scholar-practitioner and PhD candidate in Management at Walden University. Shawn’s work bridges academia and practical application, focusing on fostering positive social change through human-centered leadership practices and the integration of grief literacy into corporate culture. Shawn’s diverse career spans roles in employment training, sales, marketing, media, and management, where she collaborated with brands, companies, and TV networks across Read more […]

Suneetha is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Raipur in the area of OB & HR. She holds a PhD in management from Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur and did her master’s from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Before joining academia, she worked in the manufacturing Industry for over 17 years in the field of Human Resource Management. Her research focuses on flourishing, evidenced by the extensive work in her thesis “Being who we are (loving beings) Read more […]

An award-winning medical doctor and nephrologist turned philosopher and director of the Institute of Humanities, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos Nigeria. With over a decade of clinical expertise in public and private healthcare across Africa and Europe, Adaora’s journey began in healing bodies, evolving into a quest to heal minds and societies.  She has an MBBS (Medicine and Surgery) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with specializations in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. She Read more […]

Radmila Jovanovic (UNIGE MBA, Switzerland, MA in Anglistics, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia) is a scholar of Liberal Arts & Humanities. She thinks that the Great Books are necessary and early in her formation as an educator she chose the Western Canon as her orientation and her foundation. Important issues such as virtue, beauty, community, wonder, suffering and meaning continue to be the focus of her interests as she seeks to expand her knowledge by learning about other philosophies, cultures Read more […]