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David M. Wasieleski is the Chair of the Management and Marketing Department and Professor of Management & Business Ethics in the Palumbo Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University. His academic research focuses on natural science approaches to understanding ethical decision-making and the formation of social contracts within organizational contexts. He also studies cognitive biases on decision-making and behavior in workplace environments.

At Duquesne, he teaches business ethics, organizational behavior, and public affairs.He currently serves as Associate Editor for Business and Society and Book Review Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics Education, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Organizational Moral Psychology. As a member of the Academy of Management, he reviews papers for the Organizational Behavior Division, the Social Issues in Management Division, and the Management and Organization Cognition Division. He served as Chair of the Book Award Committee of the SIM Division (2008-2009), and was Chair of the Membership Committee of the SIM Division (2009).

Jennifer Hancock is a mom, author of The Bully Vaccine, and founder of Humanist Learning Systems. Jennifer is unique in that she was raised as a freethinker and is considered one of the top speakers and writers in the world of Humanism today. Her professional background is varied including stints in both the for profit and non-profit sectors. She has served as Director of Volunteer Services for the Los Angeles SPCA, sold international franchise licenses for a biotech firm, was the Manager of Acquisition Group Information for a ½ billion dollar company and served as the executive director for the Humanists of Florida. When she became a mother, she decided to stay at home. But that didn’t last long. Shortly after her son was born, she published her first book, The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom. Her speaking and teaching business coalesced into the founding of Humanist Learning Systems which provides online personal and professional development training in humanistic business management and science based harassment training that actually works.

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Michael Pirson is a father of three young sons. He is an Associate Professor of Management, Global Sustainability, and Social Entrepreneurship at Fordham University and Research Fellow at Harvard University. He co-founded the Humanistic Management Network and is the editor of the Journal of Humanistic Management. Michael is a full member of the Club of Rome, an international think-tank which acts as “a global catalyst for change.”

Erica L. Steckler is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Robert J. Manning School of Business (MSB) and Co-Director of the Donahue Center for Business Ethics & Social Responsibility at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College.

Her recent research focuses on stakeholder perceptions of organizational authenticity within the global domains of sustainability and corporate responsibility. Situated at the intersection of organizational theory, strategic management, and social innovation, this work builds on and extends theories of organizational identity, institutional theory, and social change.

The recipient of the 2015 Best Dissertation Award by the Academy of Management Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division, her work has been published in the Journal of Business of Ethics, Business and Society Review, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Humanistic Management Journal, and in edited volumes. She has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Review (AMR) and is currently a Research Fellow at the W. Michael Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. She is the Founding President of the US Humanistic Management Association (US HMA) and sits on the Advisory Board of the International Humanistic Management Association (IHMA).

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Dr. Jyoti Bachani is currently an associate professor in Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research interests include strategy making in business and nonprofit organizations, management of technology and innovation, mindful use of technology for creating sustainable futures, humanistic management, experiential pedagogy, simulations and case-studies.

She has several years of experience as a strategy consultant to Fortune 200 companies, working for Strategic Decisions Group. She has authored, published and reviewed several cases, and has presented her case based research at the Academy of Management, North American Case Research Association (NACRA), Eastern and Western Casewriters Associations, and other conferences.

She currently serves on the board of NACRA as the regional representative for the Western region, and has been an active member of NACRA since 2006.

Dr. Bachani is a co-founder of both US and India chapters

Dr. Castillo studies organizational leadership through the lens of complex adaptive systems. Her research investigates capitalization of nonprofit organizations, particularly how intangible assets like social, cultural, and political capital contribute to the production of social and financial returns (the double bottom line). Her scholarship is inspired by two decades of management experience in the nonprofit sector, including the San Diego Natural History Museum and Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. Her mission is to repair the world through scholarship that promotes thriving organizations, fulfilled people, connected communities, and a world we can be proud to pass on to our children.