Sponsored by Durham University Business School
2025 Award Recipient
Dr. Winny Shen
Associate Professor of Organization Studies
Schulich School of Business, York University
Winny received her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. She is currently an Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada, and was formerly on faculty at the University of South Florida and the University of Waterloo. Previously, she was named a Rising Star in Psychological Science by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA).
She currently pursues several streams of leadership research. In one stream, she explores the under-representation and challenges faced by various groups (e.g., women, racial minorities) in attaining and thriving in leadership roles. In another stream, she focuses on the intersection between occupational health psychology and leadership – examining how leaders’ actions can help or harm their subordinates’ as well as their own well-being. Finally, she also investigates questions related to leader and leadership development. This research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and has appeared in leading psychology and management journals.
Currently, she serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and the Journal of Business and Psychology and sits on the editorial board of four additional journals. She is the Chair of the Faculty Council of the Schulich School of Business. She is also a past Chair for the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Society (CSIOP) and served as Conference Chair for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
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Durham University Business School is pleased to sponsor the Mid-Career Standout Scholar Award Award in partnership with the Network of Leadership Scholars.
This NLS award honors a career-in-progress that has made and is likely to continue making considerable impact on leadership scholarship, practice, and/or teaching. Through this award, we call attention to our science and some of the very best work we are doing as a field. In a time when the contribution of the social sciences to society is called into question, we seek to highlight achievements of our very best mid-career leadership scholars, making them visible to their institutions, industry, and community.
Eligibility
- The applicant/nominee must have completed his or her PhD (or finished his or her training/education) 8-14 years ago.
- The applicant/nominee should have a noteworthy body of work that has made a meaningful and original contribution to the field of leadership studies.
- The applicant/nominee should have contributed to the discipline in ways that complement his or her scholarship (e.g., editorial board service, service as a representative for the Academy or other professional organizations, mentoring of students in the field).
- Mid-Career Standout Scholar Award committee members and previous winners of this award are not eligible.
Application Process
- Self and other nominations are welcome.
- A 1 page single spaced letter describing the applicant/nominee’s career evolution providing a strong case for his/her contribution to the leadership field. This can include some of the following points:
- Number of years since receiving the PhD (must be 8-14 years).
- Important and novel research questions in the area of leadership addressed.
- Integrated leadership-related career progression.
- Leadership-related publications in top-tier journals.
- Overall citations and other indices of research productivity.
- Publications with students.
- Service to the field
(e.g., editorial board memberships, conference leadership positions).
- Teaching accomplishments in the area of leadership.
- Work addressing the research-practice gap.
- The applicant/nominee’s curriculum vita.
- Materials must be emailed to: networkleadershipscholars@gmail.com
Committee Membership
The NLS board, in conjunction with the Chair invites committee members with the intent of ensuring a representative committee (in terms of seniority, interdisciplinarity, multiple nationalities, and sex). The role of the Chair is to guide the Committee through its decision and work with the incoming NLS Awards Coordinator (networkleadershipscholars@gmail.com) in organizing the process.
Tentative Deadlines and Timeline
- Materials due mid March of the award year
- Award winner will be notified by July of the award year
- Award will be conferred at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting of the award year.
Previous Award Winners
| 2020 | Bradley P. Owens |
| 2021 | Peter Harms |
| 2022 | Jennifer Nahrgang |
| 2023 | Jia (Jasmine) Hu |
| 2024 | Kristin Cullen-Lester |
This award is selected by an award committee, which is independent of the NLS leadership team. Committee members are selected by the committee chair with support by the NLS liaison group. Committee members are selected with the intent of ensuring a representative committee in terms of seniority, interdisciplinarity, nationality, and sex. The role of the chair is to guide the committee through its decision and work with the NLS liaison in organizing the process. The committee independently reviews the nominations and votes the candidates in rank order. The committee then discusses the top ranked candidate(s) and arrives at a decision.