Steve W. J. Kozlowski
Steve W. J. Kozlowski, PhD, is a World Class Scholar and Professor at the University of South Florida (previously he was at Michigan State University). He is a recognized authority in the areas of multilevel organizational systems theory; team leadership and team effectiveness; and learning, development, and adaptation. The goal of his programmatic research is to generate actionable theory, research-based principles, and deployable tools to develop adaptive individuals, teams, and organizations. His research has generated over $11M in funded work and is, or has been, supported by the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), among others. He has produced over 500 articles, books, chapters, reports, and presentations; his work has been cited over 39,000 times (Google Scholar). Dr. Kozlowski is a recipient of the SIOP Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups. He is the Editor for the Oxford Series on Organizational Psychology and Behavior and Editor for the new SIOP/Oxford Organizational Science, Translation, and Application Series. He is the former Editor-in-Chief and a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Management and The Leadership Quarterly, and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Human Factors, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science, the International Association for Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He was the first Chair of the APA Open Science and Methodology Committee (2019-2020), serves as the SIOP Research and Science Officer (2017-2023), is a member of the APA Publications and Communications Board (2021-2026), and is a former member of the APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee (2019-2021). He is a Past-President of SIOP (2015-2016). Dr. Kozlowski received his BA in psychology from the University of Rhode Island, and his MS and PhD degrees in organizational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.
Georgia T. Chao
Georgia T. Chao, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and the Area Director for the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program. Prior to joining USF in 2020, she was a Professor of Management at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. Her research interests are in the areas of teams, work adjustment, and work design with new technologies (exoskeletons). Her research has won awards, including the Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior award presented by the Academy of Management’s OB Division (1995), the Best Paper Award by the Editorial Board of Organizational Research Methods (2014), and the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award in recognition of the best journal publication in 2013 by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2015). She was elected to several positions in the American Psychological Association (APA), Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and served as SIOP’s President in 2020-2021. She is a Fellow of APA and SIOP and currently serves on three editorial boards. In 2017, Dr. Chao received SIOP’s Distinguished Service Award. She recently completed a two-year detail at the National Science Foundation (2018-2020). In addition to her primary duties as the Science of Organizations Program Officer, she also served as a Program Officer for two foundation-wide programs: NSF’s Research Traineeship and the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier. Dr. Chao received her BS degree in psychology with honors from the University of Maryland and her MS. and PhD degrees in industrial and organizational psychology from The Pennsylvania State University.
Michael T. Braun
Michael T. Braun, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. His research interests are in the areas of team knowledge emergence and decision making, emergent leadership, team cohesion, and modeling multilevel dynamics. His work currently appears in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and Psychological Methods, among others. He is currently a co-investigator on a grant funded through the Army Research Institute (ARI), as well as served as a senior consortium fellow for ARI. Braun currently serves on the editorial boards of Organizational Research Methods and the Journal of Business and Psychology, and as a reviewer for the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, and the National Science Foundation among others. He is a winner of the 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Citations of Excellence and is the recipient of the 2015 Owens Scholarly Achievement Award as well as the 2013 Organizational Research Method Best Paper Award for work integrating multilevel theory and computational modeling. Braun received his BA in Psychology from Purdue University (2006, full honors) and his MA (2009) and PhD with a concentration in Quantitative Methodology and Evaluation Science (2012) from Michigan State University.
James A. Grand
James A. Grand, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland. His primary work focuses on understanding how individuals and teams build knowledge, make decisions, and enact behaviors to accomplish personal and collective goals. His research philosophy is heavily inspired by the science of complex systems, which suggests that the psychological and social phenomena we observe emerge from how actions, relationships, perceptions, events, and contexts unfold within and between people over time in an environment. Examples of his specific research interests include how individuals working within teams gather, share, and interpret information to make decisions and accomplish tasks; how the behaviors, communication, and regulatory efforts (e.g., leadership, influence) among individuals affects individual and collective outcomes; and how judgment/information processing influence individual learning and assessment outcomes. He relies on a variety of methodologies and data sources to study these topics, including behavioral observation, experimental studies, and computational modeling/simulation. Beyond his professional interests, Dr. Grand loves spending time with his wife and their two kids, hiking and outdoor activities, watching and remembering when he used to actually be able to play sports, playing board games, and learning about computers, space, and other nerdy stuff.
Goran Kuljanin
Goran Kuljanin, PhD, serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University. His research focuses on developing computational process theories and models to investigate human resources management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) processes and the emergence of HRM and OB phenomena, describing the utility of data science to advance HRM and OB research and practice, and studying teams and networks of teams with respect to composition, processes, and emergent states and outcomes. He has published his research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Methods, and Organizational Research Methods. His research awards include Best Article in Organizational Research Methods in 2013, the 2015 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award from SIOP, and a Monograph Distinction from the Journal of Applied Psychology. As a co-investigator, he has won multiple grants from the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. He teaches courses and gives talks and lectures on business analytics, people analytics, forecasting and prediction, data visualization, consulting skills, strategic workforce management, teamwork, leadership, organizational systems, and the methods of science. His consulting work focuses on analyzing data on any organization’s most important resource: its people. In particular, his consulting work involves applying advanced analytics (e.g., machine learning, dynamical modeling, organizational network analysis, natural language processing, computational modeling) on employee, team, organizational, and client data to develop effective work strategies to meet organizational objectives.