Christine Quinn Trank is a professor of the practice of organizational leadership at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development of Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Business in 2001. Chris studies the institutional environment of organizations and occupations, including educational and academic contexts. The shaping of knowledge as it moves across academic, policy, market, and practice boundaries is of particular interest. Most recently, she has studied the role of rhetorical history in identity work in organizations and occupations. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Advances in Strategic Management. Chris has served as Editor-in-Chief of Academy of Management Learning and Education, Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Management Inquiry. She currently serves on several editorial boards. She previously served as representative-at-large on the Board of Governors and currently serves on the Academy of Management’s Ethics Education Committee. Chris teaches in the areas of organizational theory and leadership, fields in which she has been recognized with both teaching and service awards. At Vanderbilt, she helped establish an interdisciplinary professional doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations. The program successfully combines faculty from multiple academic fields and students from across functions and sectors, celebrating the connection between scholarship and practice.

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. She is Academic Board President, Center for Evidence-Based Management, and Co-Chair, Campbell Collaboration, Management and Business Coordinating Group (MBCG). Rousseau's research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. Her publications include over a dozen books and over 230 articles and monographs in management and psychology journals. Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management's Terry Award for best management book for I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves in 2006 and Psychological Contracts in Organizations: Understanding Written and Unwritten Agreement in 1995. She has served as President of the Academy of Management and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Rousseau received her A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Rousseau founded the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative, a network of scholars, consultants, and practicing managers to promote evidence-informed organizational practices and decision making. Her book Evidence-based Management: How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions with Eric Barends (Kogan Page) is also available for teachers and students in an on-line course at www.cmu.edu/oli.

Brianna Barker Caza received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and is now an Associate Professor at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research program broadly seeks to understand the resources and processes that produce resilience in turbulent and dynamic work contexts. She is interested in the identity and interpersonal dynamics that allow professionals to thrive amidst unexpected events and pervasive stressors. Her research has been published in many top tier outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She has received outstanding reviewer awards at Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Discoveries.

Tammy L. Madsen (Ph.D., UCLA) is the W. M. Keck Foundation Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation of the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, where she also has served as Associate Dean. Before joining SCU, she was an Assistant Professor faculty at Southern Methodist University. Tammy has been actively engaged with the Academy of Management (AOM) for the last 30 years as: Representative-at-Large, Board of Governors (BOG) of the AOM, Chair of the AOM’s Division and Interest Group Relations Committee (AOM), Chair of the AOM’s Task Force – Reimagining the DIG 5-year Review Process, Chair of the AOM’s Strategic Management (STR) Division (5-year leadership role: PDW Chair, Program Chair, Division Chair-Elect, Division Chair, and Outgoing Division Chair), Member of the AOM’s Strategy task force and Strategy committee, Co-Chair of the STR Doctoral Consortium, Judge – STR Emerging Scholar Award, and member of the STR Executive Committee and Research Committee. Tammy’s other leadership roles include Director of the Strategy Research Foundation’s Dissertation Research Grant Program (Strategic Management Society (SMS)), Associate Editor and Special Issue Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Review, Co-Editor of Special Issues for the Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Management Studies, and Executive Committee of College on Organization Science (5 year leadership role, including Organizer of the OS Dissertation Proposal Competition).

Tammy’s research and teaching is at the intersection of strategy, innovation and evolutionary dynamics – specific themes include competitive heterogeneity and temporary advantage, shocks and growth under uncertainty, and co-innovation. Her work has received various awards from the AOM’s Strategic Management Division (Glueck Best Paper Award; Distinguished Paper Awards) and early in her career, she was recognized as an Ascendant Scholar by the Western Academy of Management. Tammy also has received a Best Reviewer Award from Academy of Management Discoveries. At SCU, her teaching, research and service have been recognized with Extraordinary Faculty Awards as well as the University President’s Special Recognition Award.

Tammy began her professional career as a test and evaluation engineer for the weapon control syste