Co-President
Marie T. Dasborough, PhD
Associate 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 currently serves as Co-president (and Chief Happiness Officer) for the Network of Leadership Scholars.
Co-President
Jeremy D. Meuser, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
University of Mississippi
jmeuser@bus.olemiss.edu
Jeremy D. Meuser is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Mississippi. 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. He has published in the Academy of Management Journal, The Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Management, and The Oxford Handbook of Leadership in Organizations. He serves on the editorial review boards for The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Group and Organization Management. Dr. Meuser has taught courses in leadership, leadership development, introduction to business, organizational behavior, organizational theory, international management, and global business. Dr. Meuser looks forward to a long and productive career researching and presenting on the topic of servant leadership and leadership in general. He currently serves as Co-president and Eminent Leadership Scholar Coordinator for the Network of Leadership Scholars.
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.
Social Media Officer
Nathan Eva, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Management
Monash Business School
Nathan.Eva@monash.edu
Dr Nathan Eva is a senior lecturer 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.
Website Administrator
Jarvis Smallfield, PhD
Senior Post-doctoral Research Associate
National Center for Professional and Research Ethics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Smallfield is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 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. 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.
NLS Graduate Assistant
Andrea Blakely
Doctoral Student
University of Mississippi
Andrea N. Blakely is a PhD student in Management with a focus on Organizational Behavior at The University of Mississippi. Her primary research interests are leadership, affect, and leader–member exchange development.
NLS Graduate Assistant
Pol Solanelles
Doctoral Student
University of Mississippi
Pol Solanelles is a PhD student in Management at the University of Mississippi. His meso-level approach to research focuses on the relational aspects of leadership, including the application of complexity theory and social network analysis to leaders’ social networks, complex collaborations, and organizational networks in shared leadership. Pol earned his MBA with a certificate in Sports Management from East Carolina University and has exposure to interpersonal and organizational communication and sports science in both the United States and Europe. He contributes to NLS’ membership and awareness efforts.
Emeritus Leadership
Rachel Clapp-Smith, PhD
Associate Professor
Department Head, Managerial Studies
College of Business at Purdue University Northwest
rachel.smith@pnw.edu