People / Affiliates

Director

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Alexandre Ardichvili
ardic001@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development, CEHD
Dr. Ardichvili contributes expertise in research related to workforce learning and development, and practical experience working with non-profit organizations and developing learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits. 

Co-Director

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Kenneth R. Bartlett
bartlett@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development, CEHD
Dr. Bartlett contributes expertise in strategic workforce planning, vocational/career and technical education, human resource development, leadership development, and employee engagement.


Faculty Members

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Joshua Collins
Collinsj@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Dr. Collins contributes expertise in qualitative research methods, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion as they relate to learning and workplace experiences.




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Sehoon Kim
kimsh@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Dr. Kim contributes expertise in talent management, competency modeling, employee onboarding, and training effectiveness. 




Traci LaLiberte
lali0017@umn.edu | School of Social Work, CEHD
Dr. LaLiberte contributes expertise in child welfare, child welfare workforce, intersection of child welfare and disabilities services, families and children, and integrated data.




Hannah MacDougall
macdo327@umn.edu | School of Social Work, CEHD
Dr. MacDougall contributes expertise in health policy, the role of health systems in addressing the social needs of communities, nonprofit hospital community benefit policy, and its potential to promote health equity.



Kristine Piescher
kpiesche@umn.edu | School of Social Work, CEHD
Dr. Piescher contributes expertise in child welfare, child welfare workforce development, housing and homelessness, and integrated data.




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Stephanie Sisco
pleasant@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Dr. Sisco contributes expertise in research related to social and participatory learning, and organizational strategies that support the development and advancement of racial minorities.

Jonathan Stuart
stua0042@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Dr. Stuart contributes expertise in developing training curriculum, teaching practices, and workplace interventions that contribute to employee learning and development.

Ana Carolina (Carol) Rodriguez
rodr0667@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Ana Carolina Rodriguez contributes expertise in research and practice related to organization development strategies to foster career development and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Graduate Research Members

Christina Cauble, LNHA, HSE, MBA
caubl010@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Christina Cauble, LNHA, HSE, MBA, is an OLPD PhD student with a focus on Human Resource Development. She is an enthusiastic participant in the aging services field as a business leader with an emphasis on retirement communities, nursing care, assisted living, and aging services in both nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Christina’s strengths include development and implementation of strategic business plans, human resource and financial management, and creating growth in profits. She is currently the Geriatric Education Specialist at the U of M Medical School. Christina also serves on the Minnesota Board on Aging, and is on the Board of Directors for Friends and Co, an organization that helps combat social isolation of older adults. She has held leadership positions with a number of health care communities, including Ecumen, Ebenezer, and Southview Acres Health Care Center. Christina was awarded the AARP Disrupt Aging Classroom certification. 

Hyerim Cho
cho00229@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Hyerim Cho is a doctoral student in the Human Resource Development program. Her areas of interest are HRD in public sector, leadership development, HRD for CSR, and international HRD. She has a bachelor’s degree in Education and Psychology, a master’s degree in Corporate Education, and 5 years of experience as a human resource development practitioner in a South-Korean public enterprise.

Quinn Oteman
otema001@umn.edu | School of Social Work, CEHD
Quinn is a PhD student in the School of Social Work. He is an MN LEND Fellow through the University’s Institute on Community Integration that prepares future leaders who will serve children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), other neurodevelopmental and related disabilities (NDDs). His research encompasses multiple aspects of community inclusion for people with disabilities.

Taylor Cavallo Siering
sieri004@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Taylor Cavallo Siering is a PhD Student in the Human Resource Development program. Her research interests are centered around the intersection of gender, labor, and capitalism; exploring the home sphere as a space of labor for women and mothers; and the ways in which work and labor craft meaning and identity for individuals (specifically millennial women) and within society at large. She began her career working in human resources and talent development in advertising agencies in New York City. She has an MA in Human Resource Development.

Panpan Zhang
zhan5986@umn.edu | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Panpan is a doctoral candidate in the Human Resource Development program. Her research interests include organizational culture, employment relationships in the gig economy, and gig workforce development.

Postdoctoral Lab Members

Diele Lobo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (MW CASC) hosted by the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota
lobo0010@umn.edu

Individual Affiliates

John Bricout, Ph.D
Chair, Department of Social Work at the University of Texas at San Antonio
UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249 john.bricout@utsa.edu

Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D
Senior Director, Research and Strategic Innovation at Georgia Tech’s Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP)
500 10th Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332 paul.baker@gatech.edu

Richard A. Braden
Senior Director of Technology Apprenticeships, Strategic Workforce Development, CompTIA, Inc.
3500 Lacey Rd STE 100, Downers Grove, IL 60515 rbraden@comptia.org

Thomas J. Chermack, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Program in Organizational Learning, Performance and Change, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523 thomas.chermack@colostate.edu

Anne-Marie Kuiper, Ph.D.
Director of Strategic Development, Summit Academy OIC
935 Olson Memorial Highway, Minneapolis, MN 55405 AKuiper@saoic.org

Michael P. Leimbach, Ph.D.
Vice President, R&D Solutions, Wilson Learning Corporation
8000 W 78TH St, Ste 200, Edina, MN 55439 michael_leimbach@wilsonlearning.com
Recent Publication: Leadership development in the age of the Great Resignation. Training. https://lnkd.in/gTAWjqp2 

Lisa Wocken, Ph.D.
DAO Educator/Researcher; Founding Member, TalentDAO and Bolster Leadership

Organizational Affiliates

Human Resource Development Laboratory
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
2314 University Ave. West #20. St. Paul, MN, 55114
Wooseok Song, Human Resource Manager,  wsong@minnesotanonprofits.org