DR. MARY UHL-BIEN is the BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (TCU). She holds an honorary doctorate at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, and a Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Uhl-Bien is an active scholar and leader in the Academy of Management. She was ranked #6 in the Top 20 Most Influential Leadership Scholars since 1990 and has won multiple Best Paper awards, including two Decennial Awards, for her work on leadership. She is a founder of the Network of Leadership Scholars (NLS) in the Academy of Management and has served as both Representative-at-Large and Division Chair for the Organizational Behavior (OB) Division in the Academy, as well as on multiple Academy-wide leadership committees. Dr. Uhl-Bien is a dedicated teacher-scholar. She publishes her work in top journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly, and disseminates it both in the classroom and to practice through practitioner articles and executive education. Her research has been generated in large part through research-practice partnerships with a dedicated practice team, and has been funded by grants from organizations such as Booz Allen Hamilton.
She is passionate about undergraduate teaching and was recognized in Poets & Quants 2nd Annual Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors. DR. RONALD F. PICCOLO is the Galloway Professor of Management in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. From 2009-2016, he served as the Cornell Professor of Management and Academic Director of the Center for Leadership Development & Executive Education in the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. Dr. Piccolo earned a Ph.D.
in management from the University of Florida, an M.B.A. from Rollins, and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Stetson University. He has been a visiting scholar at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Tulane University, Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, Kiel University, and the Amsterdam Business School. Dr. Piccolo teaches graduate-level courses in leadership, organizational behavior (OB), research methods, and management strategy. At Rollins College, he was recipient of the Cornell Distinguished Teaching Award (2015-2016) and the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award (2011-2012) for outstanding teaching, research, and service, and was a keynote speaker (2012, 2013, 2014) on "Teaching Effectiveness" for the OB division of the Academy of Management.
DR. JOHN R. SCHERMERHORN, JR. is the Charles G. O'Bleness Emeritus Professor of Management in the College of Business at Ohio University. He earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Northwestern University, an MBA (with distinction) in management and international business from New York University, a BS in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Pècs in Hungary and is an honorary professor at the National University of Ireland at Galway. He previously taught at Tulane University, the University of Vermont, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Management and Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration. At Ohio University he twice served as Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.