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Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland in Australia. He came to academe in after an 18-year career in water resources engineering. He received his PhD in social/organizational psychology from the same university. His research is in leadership, organizational culture, ethics, and emotions in organizations, and his work has been published in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal and Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is Associate Editor for Emotion Review and Series Co-Editor of Research on Emotion in Organizations. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Prof. Ashkanasy is a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences in the UK (AcSS) and Australia (ASSA); the Association for Psychological Science (APS); the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP); Southern Management Association (SMA), and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). In 2017, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia.

Oluremi (Remi) Ayoko (GAICD, SFHEA) is an Associate Professor in Management at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. She provides academic leadership in Cyber-risk Behaviours, Managerial Digital Surveillance, Inclusive Leadership, Metaverse in Business, Sustainable Physical Workspaces, Inclusion/Belongingness, Teamwork and Conflict Management. She is also internationally recognised for research that integrates organisational behaviour with workplace design, the future of work and employee wellbeing.

Remi completed her PhD on workplace conflict and leadership in diverse teams at the UQ Business School and has since developed a sustained and high-impact research program. Her work is published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Studies, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and the International Journal of Conflict Management. She is a co-recipient of a competitive Australian Research Council Discovery Grant investigating how physical office configurations influence territoriality, collaboration, wellbeing, and productivity.

Remi has held significant academic leadership roles, including Management Discipline Leader at UQ Business School and immediate past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management & Organization. She leads UQ’s Next Generation of Workspaces Research Network, a cross-disciplinary platform advancing research on future workplaces, and chairs the UQ Cultural Inclusion Council, strengthening institutional inclusion strategy.

An award-winning teacher and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Remi teaches Managing Workplace Conflict and Human Resource Management at UQ. She works closely with Higher Degree by Research candidates, professional staff, industry, and community partners to translate research into measurable workplace outcomes.

Her industry engagement is extensive. She has delivered executive training and workshops for the CSIRO, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, multiple Queensland Government sectors, and senior executives from Bhutan and Papua New Guinea. Her work supports organisations to strengthen conflict capability, inclusive leadership, collaboration, and performance in complex environments.

Remi is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a sought-after expert commentator in national and international media on workplace conflict, inclusion, and the future of work. Her scholarship and leadership reflect a strong commitment to advancing evidence-based practice that enhances organisational wellbeing, productivity, and social impact.

Marcus Cattani is a researcher focussing on the prevention of workplace injuries, disease and fatalities. Marcus is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Sustainable Minerals Institute's, Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre at the University of Queensland. His expertise concerns the management of organisational injury and incident risk, managing exposure to workplace hazards and modeling safety data and information to improve the communication of risk.

Marcus has worked for half his career in industry, in corporate and operational leadership health and safety roles, and technical roles in occupational hygiene. For the olther half of his career he has worked in academia, in lecturing, course coordination and research roles.

Marcus is an Australian Institute of Health and Safety Board member and Chair of the College of Fellows.

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Chia-Yen (Chad) Chiu is an Associate Professor in Leadership and the Head of Management Discipline at the UQ Business School. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. As a behavioural scientist specialising in leadership and organisational behaviour, his research focuses on how line managers—the critical bridge between organisational strategy and employees’ daily experiences—can become more productive and resilient. He is particularly interested in leader humility as a developmental resource that enables managers to build stronger teams, foster emerging leadership, and sustain organisational performance over time. Before joining UQ, he held academic positions at the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide, where he received multiple research and teaching awards in recognition of his scholarly contributions and classroom excellence. He has attracted multiple competitive international and domestic grants to support research on leadership development in Australia.

His research has been published in leading journals in management and organisational studies (FT50/ABDC A*; with 3% - 5% acceptance rate), including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Vocational Behavior. He serves as an Associate Editor at Human Relations (2022~) and a Guest Editor at the Journal of Management Scientific Reports (2025). Additionally, he is current on the Editoriall Board of Personnel Psychology (2025~) and was on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior (2018 ~ 2025) and the Journal of Management (2019 ~ 2025), and has received outstanding reviewer awards from the Journal of Organizational Behavior (2023), Journal of Management (2023), and Journal of Management and Organization (2024). He also teaches various courses related to leadership and people management in organisations at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. His leadership-relevant courses (for undergraduate and MBA students) are among the top-rated courses in various Australian and US universities.

Selected Honours and Awards:

• Adelaide Business School Excellence in Research Award, University of Adelaide, 2023
• Adelaide Business School Excellence in Research Leadership Award, University of Adelaide, 2023
• UniSA Business Research Excellence, University of South Australia, 2021
• UniSA Business Teaching Excellence, University of South Australia, 2020, 2021
• UniSA Business Mid-Career Research Excellence Award, University of South Australia, 2020
• UniSA Business School Early-Career Research Excellence, University of South Australia, 2017
• Early Career Researcher Networking Awards, University of South Australia, 2017
• PhD Student Award, School of Management, University at Buffalo, 2013

Research Grants, Funding, and Scholarships:

• ABLE Research Innovator Grant, University of Adelaide, 2024 (AUD 4,763)
• ABLE Research Innovator Grant, University of Adelaide, 2023 (AUD 4,796)
• RNUDS 2020 Scheme – DSTG Grant, 2021-2022 (AUD $249,702; shared with Ruchi Sinha, Gillian Yeo, Bart De Jong, and Andrew Yu)
• UniSA Research Themes Investment Scheme (RTIS) Seed Fund, 2019 (AUD $38,500; Primary Investigator; shared with Michelle Tuckey, Carol Kulik, and Matylda Howard)
• The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) funding, 2019 (GBP £8,000)
• Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation (DAAD) Scheme Grant (No. 57379159), 2017 (AUD $30,500; Primary Investigator; shared with Brooke Gazdag and Jill Gould).
• Research Fellowship, Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness, University of Buffalo, 2014-2015 (USD $50,000)
• Research Fellowship, Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University, 2013-2015 (USD $50,000)
• Chung Hwa Rotary Scholarship, Taiwan, 2004 (NTD $ 120,000)

Professor Paul Harpur OAM is a leading international and comparative disability rights legal academic, and a leader in higher education reforms.

Professor Harpur directs the the UQ Disability Collaboratory. The UQ Disability Collaboratory is a university-wide University of Queensland initiative which galvanises the university’s significant but currently distributed research expertise in order to maximise research impact and output. The Collaboratory is the primary means by which UQ enacts its commitment to research excellence in the fields of disability inclusion and was established following the University’s adoption of the Champions of Change Disability Inclusion Research and Innovation Plan. In addition to including a commitment to forming a high-impact disability research network, the Plan will further UQ’s leadership in disability inclusion research, ensuring that people with lived experience of disability play a central role in shaping research outcomes.

Beyond the UQ, Professor Harpur holds international posts, including as an Associate with the Harvard Law School's Harvard Project on Disability, an International Distinguished Fellow, with the Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, and is a former Fulbright Future Scholar.

Professor Harpur is active in university-wide and sector-wide higher education change. Illustratively he has chairred the UQ Disability Inclusion Group since 2016 and sits on a range of university-wide committees. At the sector-wide level, during 2023 Dr Harpur served on the Ministerial Reference Group for the Universities Accord. He also serves on the Higher Education Standards Panel (HESP), which is a statutory body under Part 9 of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (Cth). The HESP is charged to advise and make recommendations to the Minister and to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) on the Higher Education Standards Framework and to TEQSA on matters including TEQSA’ strategic objectives, corporate plan, performance against that plan, reform agenda, streamlining of activities and resourcing requirements and its regulatory approaches. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success, formerly the National Center for Student Equity in Higher Education. In April the Univertas 21 (U21) Senior Leaders Group adopted the U21 Framework for Equitable and Inclusive Global Engagement to guide EDI across the 30 university Network. This Framework as a committee, the U21 EDI Management Committee, to which Professor Harpur was appointed in 2025. His transformational work and service has been recognised with numerous diversity and inclusion, human resources and leadership citations and awards. In the 2024 Australia Day Honours, Professor Harpur was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia by the Governor General of Australia (OAM). The citation for his OAM is “for service to people with disability”.

Additionally, Professor Harpur is a former Fulbright Future Scholar, former current Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and duel Paralympian. He competed in the Sydney 2000 Paralympics and the Athens 2004 Paralympics and has the Paralympics Australia Pin #614.

Professor Harpur is a TEDx speaker (“Universities as Disability Champions of Change”).

Alex is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology and Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on the study of group and identity processes in organizational, social, and clinical contexts.

Together with colleagues, Alex has written and edited 15 books and published over 300 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. His most recent books are:The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power (2nd Ed. with Stephen Reicher & Michael Platow, Psychology Press, 2020), The New Psychology of Sport: The Social Identity Approach (with Katrien Fransen & Filip Boen, Sage, 2020),The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure (with Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys and Genvieve Dingle, Routledge, 2018), andSocial Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (2nd Ed. with Joanne Smith, Sage, 2017).

Alex is a former Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and currently Associate Editor of The Leadership Quarterly. He has won a range of major awards from scientific organisations in Australia, Europe, the UK, and the US, including recognition for distinguished contributions to psychological science from both the Australian Psychological Society and British Psychological Society. In 2022 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia "for significant service to higher education, particuarly psychology, through research and mentoring".

Caroline Knight is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland Business School. Caroline’s research focuses on understanding how we can design work which is optimally healthy for individuals and organisations. Her focus is on work design, remote and hybrid work, work redesign interventions, and well-being. She collaborates with researchers, practitioners and industry partners internationally and has attracted funding worth over AUD$1,000,000, most recently leading a successful Australian Research Council Discovery Grant worth over AUD$650,000. Caroline currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior and has published in several leading top-tier academic journals including the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Work & Stress, as well as practitioner journals such as Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Dr Yoo Young (Dominique) Lee is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland and a consultant radiation oncologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital. A specialist in hepatobiliary malignancies, she is nationally recognised for her leadership in physician wellbeing and professional culture.

Her work spans research, education, coaching, and system-level engagement, examining burnout, moral distress, and organisational drivers of clinician distress, and delivering evidence-informed programs that support doctors to navigate workplace challenges and build sustainable, values-aligned careers.

She is also a leader in stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) research, focused on advanced technologies for liver and pancreatic cancers, and is deeply committed to advancing both precision cancer care and healthier medical workplaces.

She is deeply committed to medical education, supervision, and leadership, and to advancing both precision cancer care and healthier, more sustainable medical workplaces. Her work in physician wellbeing and coaching can be found at www.heyboss.org

I am a Saltwater woman and a descendant of Matora (Awabakal) and Bungaree (Garigal/Darug), with family ties through Diana Mudgee to the Wiradyuri Nation. I am an Associate Professor in the UQ Business School and Director of the Indigenous Business Hub, and serve as Associate PRME Director – Indigenous Engagement for the UQ Business School.

I have more than 40 years of experience across academia, government, industry and community, with professional and academic work spanning Indigenous employment, Indigenous business, equity and inclusion, organisational change, industrial relations and Indigenous economic participation. My work brings together academic research, professional practice, community relationships and policy engagement, with a focus on creating practical and sustainable pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, organisations and businesses.

My research centres on Indigenous employment, Indigenous business, Indigenous leadership and organisational transformation. My scholarship examines how colonial structures, institutional practices and workplace systems shape the experiences and opportunities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Drawing on Indigenous standpoint theory, Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous feminist perspectives and decolonial approaches, my research develops relational and culturally grounded approaches to employment, leadership, business and organisational change.

My research program spans industrial relations, human resource management, business education, leadership, Indigenous governance and economic participation. A consistent feature of my work is the connection between research, policy and practice. My research has informed policy processes and has been cited in Ministerial papers and Bills introduced into Parliament. I have also contributed to national policy and advisory processes concerning Indigenous employment, higher education, Indigenous entrepreneurship, workforce participation and organisational change.

As Director of the Indigenous Business Hub, I connect research, education, industry and community. The Hub supports research and engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses, organisations, governments and communities, and provides pathways for Indigenous knowledge, business expertise and community priorities to inform business education and research at UQ.

I established the International Journal of Indigenous Business through the Indigenous Business Hub and serve as Editor-in-Chief. The journal provides an international scholarly platform for Indigenous business research and centres Indigenous voices, Indigenous knowledges and priorities across business, enterprise, governance, policy, education and leadership.

I completed my Doctor of Philosophy (Business) at the University of Newcastle in 2016. My doctoral thesis, Private-sector employment programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: Comparative case studies, examined approaches to Indigenous employment in the private sector. I was the first Aboriginal person to be awarded a PhD in Business from the University of Newcastle.

I completed my Honours thesis in 2006, examining mentoring as a human resource strategy to address labour market disadvantage for Indigenous Australians through a qualitative study of mentoring outcomes for Indigenous trainees at the University of Newcastle.

My work is grounded in reciprocity, relational accountability and Indigenous self-determination. Across academic, community, industry and policy settings, I seek to create opportunities through which knowledge, relationships and resources can move in both directions — strengthening UQ while contributing to outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, businesses, organisations and students.

Emma Olssen is a Koori Aboriginal woman from the Wiradjuri Nation of New South Wales through her mother and grandparents, and a Middle-Eastern Australian through her father's lineage. Born in Muloobinba (Newcastle, NSW), she grew up in Winnam (Wynnum) on Quandamooka Country (Moreton Bay).

Emma has an extensive professional background in leadership, executive management, organisational change, and Indigenous engagement across diverse sectors. As an Indigenous researcher, her work is grounded in Indigenous methodologies and explores the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees across identified and non-identified roles.

Her research examines how organisational structures, workplace cultures, and employment practices shape Indigenous employees' experiences of inclusion, wellbeing, leadership, and career progression. Through qualitative yarning, her work challenges assumptions that representation alone leads to meaningful inclusion and highlights the organisational conditions that enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to thrive in the workplace. Her research contributes to contemporary discussions on Indigenous employment, equity, and organisational transformation.

David Solnet is a Professor of Service Management and Service Work in the UQ Business School. He is recognized internationally for his research, teaching and consulting, all focused on managing and leading service organizations, with particular emphasis on managing the employee-customer interface. His research focuses on frontline employees and the relationships between management practices, employee attitudes and firm performance. He is currently leading a new strategic initiative, creating UQ's first fully online Master's degree through a UQ partnership with edX, Master of Leadership and Innovation.

David is a sought after advisor to industry and government, specializing on business improvement, financial analysis, service quality and management development programs. He comes from a restaurant background, with over 18 years of experience including senior management roles in the USA (Brinker International, El Chico Group, Bennigan’s Restaurants and Olive Garden) and Australia (including six years as general manager of Bretts Wharf in Brisbane). He has consulted to many organizations, including Merlo Coffee, Cactus Jacks Restaurant Group, Aromas Noosa, Ricky’s River Bar, Locale Ristaurante, Pier Nine Restaurant and Oyster Bar, Mitchell Ogilvie Menswear and Baguette Restaurant.

David coleads the workforce research team in the tourism group at the UQ Business School and has been a principal investigator on a number of state and national projects including two ‘tourism employment plans’ as part of the Australian Commonwealth Government initiative to address employment challenges in regional areas in Australia; and has worked with Service Skills Australia on a number of projects centred around workforce development.

Professor Solnet has published over 50 academic journal articles, and his work consistently appears in the top journals in his field, such as the Journal of Service Management, Managing Service Quality (Journal of Service Theory and Practice), Annals of Tourism Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Travel Research and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research.

Professor Solnet is currently an academic partner seconded to the Division of Student Affairs, developing initiatives centered around improving student experience.