Co-President
Dorothy R. Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of Management
Broad College of Business
Michigan State University
dcarter3@msu.edu
Dorothy’s research on leadership and teamwork has appeared in multiple journals within the organizational sciences, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, American Psychologist, and The Leadership Quarterly, as well as in interdisciplinary publication outlets. She has received over $10 million in funding as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator from national agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Army Research Institute (ARI), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has received multiple research awards including the 2017 Alvah H. Chapman Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management’s (AoM) Network of Leadership Scholars (NLS), the 2019 Rising Star in Leadership Research Award from the AoM’s NLS, the 2020 Charles B. Knapp Early Career Scholar in the Social Sciences Award from the University of Georgia (UGA), and the 2023 Early Career Award from the Interdisciplinary Network for Groups Research (INGRoup). Dr. Carter currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Psychology Review, and Journal of Business and Psychology. She is a co-author on a forthcoming National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report commissioned by the National Institutes of Health focused on best practices for supporting and evaluating team science. Dr. Carter earned her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA and her B.S. degree in Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, OH.
Co-President
Nathan J. Hiller, PhD
Nathan is Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor in the Department of Global Leadership and Management in the College of Business, where he holds the Ingersoll-Rand Professorship. He is passionate about connecting the science of leadership and the practice of helping leaders and organizations amplify leadership capacity.
As an academic, Dr. Hiller’s focus is on investigating how senior organizational leaders and leadership teams can operate more effectively, as well as research designed to improve how we study leadership. His works have been cited over 6,000 times and his research has appeared in most of the top competitive journals in the field, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly.
Dr. Hiller is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He has held editorial board positions at the Journal of Applied Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly. He is the recipient of 10 teaching awards and has received several international research awards.
In his role at the Center for Leadership at FIU, Dr. Hiller oversees all executive leadership development programs comprising close to 8000 person-hours of programming per year. As a leadership development practitioner, he has led projects, held grants, and coached and consulted with senior executive teams and leaders from dozens of organizations including Boston Scientific, Hewlett Packard (HP), the US Secret Service, Bacardi USA, and clients across industries ranging from power generation to finance and family office work, and from cruise services to education.
Dr. Hiller has held visiting faculty appointments at Cornell, University of Washington (Seattle), University of British Columbia, and taught a graduate leadership course at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Calgary and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
Historian
Gretchen Vogelgesang-Lester, PhD
Assistant Professor
San Jose State University
gretchen.lester@sjsu.edu
Gretchen Vogelgesang-Lester was interested in leadership from a young age, telling people at the age of 13 that she would be the boss. After trying out executive search, banking, and consulting, she decided becoming a professor was more her speed. Along the way, she has lived in Chicago, Lincoln, New York, Washington, D.C., and now is located south of San Jose, CA. She currently teaches as part of the management curriculum at San Jose State University and has done some executive coaching in the MBA program. She finds it fascinating to help others reach their maximum potential.
Dr. Vogelgesang-Lester teaches the capstone strategic management course, as well as the applied organizational behavior course located in Silicon Valley. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and her MBA from DePaul University. Her research encompasses leadership development, leader identity, and communication between leaders and followers. She has published in such journals as The Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Dynamics, the Academy of Management Learning and Education, the Journal of Leadership and Organization Studies, the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, and Human Resource Development Review. She also has presented her work at the Academy of Management Conferences and serves as a reviewer for a number of leadership journals. Prior to academia, Dr. Vogelgesang Lester worked in the financial industry as a wealth management trust officer. She has also worked with such organizations at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Science Foundation as a human capital consultant.
Treasurer
Amy Bartels, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
College of Business
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
amy.bartels@unl.edu
Amy L. Bartels received her joint Juris Doctorate and Master of Arts in Educational Leadership degrees from the University of Nebraska, and she worked in Higher Education for several years before pursuing her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Her research interests include leadership and team dynamics, leader identity, leadership as a relationship, and how leaders can influence employee stress and well-being. She has published articles in Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and PLOS One. Dr. Bartels has taught undergraduate courses in leadership and organizational behavior and a Ph.D. seminar in organizational behavior. She currently serves as Treasurer for the Network of Leadership Scholars.
Social Media Officer
Pol Solanelles
Assistant Professor
LeMoyne College
Pol Solanelles is an Assistant Professor of Management & Leadership in the Madden College of Business and Economics at Le Moyne College. He holds a PhD in Business Management from the University of Mississippi and an MBA from East Carolina University, where he also earned his Bachelor of Science in Communication. His research, published in outlets such as Organizational Research Methods and Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, explores team assembly, leadership, and social influence dynamics through a social network theoretical lens. Dr. Sol has taught courses on Leadership, Group Dynamics, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management. Outside of academia, he enjoys climbing, running, and dancing, often spending time in the mountains or surrounded by nature with his loved ones.
Secretary and Website Administrator
Jarvis Smallfield, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Management
College of Business Administration
Central Michigan University
Dr. Smallfield is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business Administration at Central Michigan University. He is a business scholar conducting research in the areas of leader-team interactions and organizational impacts on individual differences with the ultimate goal of better understanding how each person can excel in the workplace. He seeks to improve firms’ performance and the quality of work environments by helping leaders and firms maximize the value each of their employees contributes to the organization. He has published articles in such journals as Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Management. Jarvis holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MBA from Clemson University, and a BA in the Integrated Science Program from Northwestern University.
Awards Coordinator
Brett Neely, PhD
Assistant Professor
College of Business
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Brett Neely joined the management department as an assistant professor in Fall 2020. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from The Pennsylvania State University, and his B.A. from The University of California – Los Angeles.
His primary research interests are in leadership and diversity in organizations, and in advancing organizational research methods. His work has been published in outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Leadership Quarterly. He teaches Organizational Behavior at the Undergraduate and MBA levels.
Director of Outreach
Joel Carnevale, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
Martin J. Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
Primarily interested in the interpersonal dynamics that exist between leaders and their subordinates, his current research centers on three interconnected areas: destructive leadership, creative reputations, and behavioral ethics. Dr. Carnevale’s research articles have appeared in several notable academic journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Business Research, and Applied Psychology. In addition, his work has appeared in popular media outlets including Fast Company, Business Insider, WebMD, Entrepreneur, and TIME. He is an Entrepreneur Leadership Network Contributor, an Associate Editor of Journal of Business Ethics, former Associate Editor of Journal of Business Research (2019-2022), and recipient of the 2021 Guttag Junior Faculty Award from the Whitman School of Management. He earned a B.S. in Economics and MBA from Radford University, and a Ph.D. in management, focused on Organizational Studies, Strategy and Change from the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University.
NLS Graduate Assistant
Joscelin Aiken
PhD Candidate
Texas Tech University
Joscelin Aiken is a PhD student in Management with a focus on Organizational Behavior and Leadership at Texas Tech University. She earned her B.B.A. in Management at Texas Tech University, and decided she loved the West Texas tumbleweeds too much to leave. Joscelin enjoys continuously learning and serving. Her research interests include exploring leadership, interpersonal relationships, and teams through a mixed methods approach. She also vouches for better research practices and has taken on replication initiatives to do so.
NLS Graduate Assistant
Sophia Thomas
PhD Candidate
Texas Tech University
Sophia Thomas is a PhD student at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on the leader-follower relationship as a way of building inclusivity for marginalized and stigmatized individuals. Employing a mixed-methods approach, Sophia explores not only how leadership can facilitate a diverse and inclusive organizational culture, but also the underlying mechanisms that drive this culture change. Sophia received her MS in Organizational Leadership at Arizona State University, kickstarting her interest in studying and engaging in leadership. In addition to her role with NLS, she also assists with various events for the Consortium for Advanced Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA). She contributes to NLS membership and awareness efforts, especially in engaging doctoral students with NLS events.
Emeritus Leadership
Rachel Clapp-Smith, PhD
Interim Dean, College of Business
Academic Director, The Leadership Institute at PNW
Professor of Leadership
College of Business at Purdue University Northwest
rachel.smith@pnw.edu
Karen Landay, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Management, G. Brint Ryan College of Business
University of North Texas
Dr. Landay received her Ph.D. from the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, her Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
Her research interests include toxic, destructive, and dark leadership, the interpersonal effects of work passion, and music listening at work. She has published in Journal of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Research in Personality, and Personality and Individual Differences. Dr. Landay’s research has also been featured in media outlets such as Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., and BBC Worklife.
Nathan Eva, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Monash Business School
Nathan.Eva@monash.edu
Dr Nathan Eva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the Monash Business School. He is a multi-award award-winning lecturer and dynamic public speaker with an innate ability to establish a rapport with students and convey information with clarity and enthusiasm.
Dr Eva received his PhD from Monash University in 2014, received the 2015 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctorial Research Award in Leadership, awarded as a 2016 Greenleaf Scholar by the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership, and was selected for the 2016 Wharton Business School ECR Development Program. He was nominated for the 2017 and 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, received the 2016 and 2013 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at the Monash Business School, and been consistently recognized for outstanding teaching by the Office of the Vice-Provost (Learning and Teaching).
Dr Eva’s research interests focus on the antecedents, outcomes, and development of leadership. Whilst predominately focused on servant leadership, Nathan has also researched ethical, entrepreneurial, participative leadership in an organizational context, and has published in youth leadership development. His peer-reviewed work appears in international outlets such as Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Management Review, Public Administration Review, and Journal of Small Business Management and Education + Training. He serves as Social Medial Office for the Network of Leadership Scholars.
Marie T. Dasborough, PhD
Professor of Management
University of Miami Business School
m.dasborough@miami.edu
Marie Dasborough is a faculty member in the Management Department at the University of Miami. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior (specializing in leadership, emotions, and teamwork), from University of Queensland in Australia. During her career, she has won multiple awards for her research and teaching endeavors. She has published in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, International Journal of HRM, The Leadership Quarterly, and various others. She is currently the co-editor for Journal of Organizational Behavior (Annual Review), and serves on three editorial review boards (The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Group and Organization Management). She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Johnson Endosomwan Leadership Institute. Dr Dasborough teaches High Performance Leadership to the Global EMBAs, Leading Across Cultures to the MBAs, and Advanced Organizational Behavior to the undergraduates. She is a member of the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the American Psychological Association), the Southern Management Association, Network of Leadership Scholars, Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, International Society for Research on Emotions, and is an invited member of the Emotional Intelligence Consortium. With a passion for mentoring others, she has also organized professional development workshops at the Academy of Management conferences during the last 10+ years to support the endeavors of junior leadership scholars. She served as Co-president (and Chief Happiness Officer) for the Network of Leadership Scholars from 2017-2025.
Jeremy D. Meuser, PhD
Jeremy D. Meuser served 4 years as an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Mississippi. He was selected as a 2021 Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar, a prestigious award given to the very best early career scholars in Management recognizing excellence in research, service and teaching. He brings an eclectic background to the study of leadership, holding degrees in computer engineering, philosophy, and spirituality, and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Melding entrepreneurial and managerial experience in the private sector in information technology (IT), high school teaching, and internships in the medical field, Dr. Meuser’s research program focuses on leadership and the impact of leadership upon the individuals who experience it. Servant leadership, differential leader treatment (leader-member exchange and idiosyncratic deals), and employee identification are his primary areas of interest. Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Business Horizons, and The Oxford Handbook of Leadership in Organizations. He is an Associate Editor at Group and Organization Management and the Journal of Managerial Psychology. He also serves on the editorial review board for The Leadership Quarterly. Dr. Meuser has taught courses in leadership, leadership development, entrepreneurial leadership, introduction to business, organizational behavior, organizational theory, international management, global business, and Ph.D. level Philosophy of Science and Methods. Dr. Meuser looks forward to a long and productive career researching and presenting on the topic of servant leadership and leadership in general. He served as Co-president for the Network of Leadership Scholars from 2017-2025.