Michael Mullen speaking at the 2016 LEAD Distinguished Speaker Series.
The department’s Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program hosts the annual LEAD Distinguished Speaker Series to bring current and former military service people to campus to discuss leadership principles. Past speakers include four-star Admiral Michelle J. Howard, NASA administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden and former U.S. Sen. James Webb Jr.
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Featuring GW’s top students in public speaking, the annual Oral Advocacy Showcase and Competition welcomes students, faculty, staff and university community members to watch students deliver an original persuasive speech on a contemporary issue. Competitors are nominated by their peers from each section of the Public Communication (COMM 1040) course. After a preliminary round of judging, five speakers advance to the competition where they give their speech in under nine minutes. Audience members have the opportunity to ask questions following each speech.
Associate Professor Gelaye Debebe’s 2019 book, Women's Leadership Development: Caring Environments and Paths to Transformation, offers an interdisciplinary framework of leadership effectiveness and brings this framework to life with detailed and illuminating descriptions of four leadership transformations. The book will be of interest to academics who teach leadership or conduct leadership research, HR professionals who are seeking fresh ideas for how to maximize the impact of leadership training for women, and anyone with a passion for personal growth and development.
Lauren Lanzo, PhD '25, won the prestigious George Thornton Graduate Scholarship Award for outstanding scientist-practitioner from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student in industrial-organizational psychology who exemplifies the scientist/practitioner model. Lanzo's winning submission was entitled "Relationship Quality and the Impact on Team Effectiveness."
Organizational Sciences minor Ian Siderits, BA '19, won the 2019 John Flanagan Award for the best student contribution at the annual Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference. Siderits accepted the award along with his co-authors Jerod White, Sarah Zarsky, Dan Ravid and Associate Professor Tara Behrend. Their poster, “Twenty Years of Technology at SIOP: Are I-O Psychologists Lagging?” examines the timeliness of technology research at SIOP conferences since 1998. Learn more about their winning poster on the WAVE Lab website.
Meina Liu, associate professor of communication, recently published a paper in Communication Research focusing on the ways individuals from Hong Kong and the United States handle negotiations. Liu believes that a better understanding of these cultural differences will help people learn how to maintain composure during a dispute and prevent it from escalating to an impasse.
How do we prepare students for the future of work? Associate Professor Tara Behrend co-edited the book Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work (Routledge, 2019) that addresses this question. This volume of contributions from leading scholars argues that the large-scale multifaceted efforts required to ensure a reliable and strong supply of talent and skill in the U.S. workforce should be addressed systematically, simultaneously and systemically across disciplines of thought and levels of analysis.
Katrina Pariera, assistant professor of communication, recently published a paper in the International Journal of Sexual Health that looks at how women talk about sex with their female friends. “Sex is at the heart of many of our most vexing social issues, and helping people become better communicators about sex is one way we can address some of those issues,” Pariera says.
David Costanza, associate professor of psychology and organizational sciences, put together a special issue of the journal Work, Aging and Retirement called Generations, Age, and the Space Between and found that a lot of what we think we know about millennials is not backed by research.
