2025/2026 Fellows

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 Organizations Read more […]

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 […]