Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Kimberly Harr

Kimberly Harr

Kimberly Harr is an Affiliate Practitioner with the Center for Effective Organizations at the USC Marshall School of Business. She brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, human resources, and...

Chloe Berry

Chloe Berry

Chloe Berry (she/her) is the Coordinator for Inclusion & Belonging at Inova Health, supporting Inova’s 10 team member resources groups and inclusion-center initiatives across the system.

Catherine Kenney

Catherine Kenney

Catherine Kenney is a Business Inclusion & Belonging Program Specialist at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, where she supports the strategy and operations of ten Employee Resource Groups. Her work focuses on strengthening ERG leadership, aligning...

Kathy Speight

Kathy Speight

Kathy Speight is a Talent and Leadership Development leader with more than 10 years at Ecolab, where she currently supports Global Supply Chain talent development initiatives focused on building high-performing leaders and strengthening organizational capability....

Sue Schmidlkofer

Sue Schmidlkofer

Sue Schmidlkofer is UPS's Director of Talent–Inclusion & Belonging. In this role, she oversees the global strategy and initiatives centered around the mission statement, ‘You Belong At UPS.’ Driving an inclusive culture, supporting Business Resource Groups, talent...

KimArie Yowell

KimArie Yowell

Dr. KimArie Yowell is the Chief Talent Officer at Rocket, where she leads learning and development, career growth, opportunity and inclusion strategy, and culture and engagement across the enterprise. In this role, she is responsible for shaping programs and...

Kat O’Donnell

Kat O’Donnell

Kat O'Donnell (they/them; she/her) is the Director of Inclusion and Belonging at Inova Health, supporting the organization’s nearly 27,000 team members through inclusion-centered initiatives. Kat is an innovative healthcare leader with over a decade of experience in...

Farrah Graves Purifoy

Farrah Graves Purifoy

Dr. Farrah Graves Purifoy is the manager of Employee Experience Programs and Operations in the Talent Center of Excellence at Entergy Corporation, where she leads enterprise strategies to strengthen employee experience, advance workforce engagement, and connect...

Andrea Espinosa

Andrea Espinosa

Andrea Espinosa is a People Development Leader, organizational psychologist, and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach with global experience designing and leading people initiatives in fast-paced, multicultural environments. Throughout her career, Andrea has designed and...

Katerina Gonzalez

Katerina Gonzalez

Katerina Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Management at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School. Her research examines the human side of organizational change: how employees interpret and respond to change, and how change processes are structured and managed...

Serena H. Huang

Serena H. Huang

Dr. Serena H. Huang is the founder of Data with Serena and an enterprise AI transformation leader focused on helping F500 organizations move from GenAI experimentation to measurable, enterprise-wide impact. She is also an Affiliate Research Scientist at the Center for...

Linda Kim

Linda Kim

Linda Kim is a Senior Vice President, Opportunity & Inclusion Consultant II with Bank of America, managing operational excellence and sustainment for the bank’s Global Employee Networks. Linda started her career at Bank of America in 2000 and has experiences in...