Category: 2024/2025 Fellows

The International Humanistic Management Association offers fellowships to select individuals every year. The appointments run for one year, but may be renewed for an additional year.

This is the 2024/2025 Cohort of Fellows

Shawn Brogan Diddy

Shawn Brogan Diddy

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 Saggurthi

Suneetha Saggurthi

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 [...]
Adaora I Onaga

Adaora I Onaga

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

Radmila Jovanovic

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 [...]
Lorenn Ruster

Lorenn Ruster

Lorenn Ruster is a final-year PhD Candidate at the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics and recipient of the Florence Mackenzie Scholarship in a New Branch of Engineering. For 10 years, Lorenn was a strategy consultant, most recently a Director focused on Systems Change at PwC’s Indigenous Consulting (now Yamagigu Consulting). She's also a responsible technology collaborator with the Centre for Public Impact, an Acumen Global Fellow where Read more [...]
Soumya Dutta

Soumya Dutta

Soumya Dutta is a 4th year doctoral student at the prestigious Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, where his research delves into the profound intersections of responsible decision-making and Yoga-based practices. With a strong academic foundation, Soumya holds an MPhil in Cognitive Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and an M.A. in Mass Communication from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.Throughout his academic journey, Read more [...]
Em Roblin

Em Roblin

Em Roblin has spent over two decades fostering inclusive cultures and empowering leaders around the globe to thrive. As an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, speaker, and consultant, Em guides people to awaken to new possibilities and envision creative futures. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, focusing her research on enhancing individual and collective thriving, particularly in complex and uncertain Read more [...]
LauraLynn Jansen, PhD 

LauraLynn Jansen, PhD 

Innovator in Humanizing & Wholistic Leadership Development (Embodied, Contemplative & Relational Practices ) Intl Humanistic Management Association Fellow, 2023/24 | Academy of Management, MSR Promising Dissertation Award, 2023 |Fetzer Scholar, 2023 LauraLynn Jansen, Ph.D., PCC, is an author and innovator in humanizing leadership. LauraLynn’s rich background as a Co-Active coach and leadership facilitator spans nearly twenty-five years. She is a maven Read more [...]
Nabi Ebrahimi

Nabi Ebrahimi

Nabi Ebrahimi is a PhD candidate in business administration with a concentration in leadership/organization studies at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell. With a keen interest in the modern workspace, his research delves into the complexities of career sustainability in the context of remote work and the intricacies of trust as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in leadership and organizational practices. He is currently doing research on how Read more [...]