More in 2024

As we near the end of the year, we take time to reflect on our journey together as the PLAID Lab and “More with Jamie Gloor” (evidence-based consulting, keynotes, and wokshops)—separate entities with overlapping interests and visions for a more inclusive world of responsible leadership. Here are some highlights:

More research and insights on leadership and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI): We were delighted to publish a new paper analyzing the advice top scholars received—and the advice they took—with an all-star lineup of scholars in a top outlet here in the field: Journal of Management. In doing so, we hoped to paint a more inclusive and responsible picture of what it takes to become and be a successful management scholar while also providing “meta advice” on how to give better advice.

Eugenia Bajet Mestre and Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor (led by Prof. Dr. Brooke Gazdag, coauthored with Profs. Drs. Cecile Emery and Sebastian Tidemann) explored women’s representation in management research over time, analyzing ±400,000 data points from 11 top management journals over 33 years. Results revealed few women (23.7%) leading top management journals; there was also little evidence that these women directly or consistently influenced women’s representation at lower levels (i.e., "trickle-down effects"). However, the patterns revealed a particularly "leaky pipeline" in the transition from associate to editor-in-chief. For more information, see the full text here.

As editors of the upcoming special issue, Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor (together with Profs. Drs. Fabiola Gerpott, Brett Neely, and Scott Tonidandel) published a call for papers on gender and leadership here in The Leadership Quarterly. Send your best work using diverse methods, from various disciplines, using different approaches by May 4, 2025.

Dr. Mihwa Seong also published a paper from her PhD (with Simon Parker at Ivey) on how gendered wording can affect joiners of start-ups here in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Finally, while research tends to attribute changes to team diversification to the new members (i.e., women), this overlooks the if and how of existing members’ (i.e., men) changes. “Shifting the gaze,” Profs. Drs. Corinne Post, Jamie Gloor, and Kris Byron (with stellar research assistance from Eugenia Bajet Mestre) published a new review piece here in Current Opinion in Psychology.

Huong Pham, Mihwa Seong, and Jamie Gloor at Academy of Management in Chicago (among 10,000+ other management scholars and practitioners)

More changes to our team:

After a whirlwind Academy of Management Conference in Chicago (and the PLAID Labbers except for Tamara + Prof. Dr. Isabelle Engeler surprisingly winning the prestigious “Phillips & Nadkarni Best Paper on Diversity & Cognition Award” 🏆 as shown to the left with Burac Oc and Beth Livingston from the AOM MOC leadership)…

…our 2 amazing PLAID Lab post-docs were both promoted to Assistant Professors in different countries! Dr. Mihwa Seong (second from the left below) took a post at Kings College London in England while Dr. Huong Pham (in the middle) accepted an offer at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt in Germany. The first branches of our academic family tree are strong and we we wish them well as we also look forward to continuing our collaborations on playfulness to bridge diversity, how ambiguous behaviors (e.g., humor, flirting, and compliments) shape well-being, follower responses to leader work-family conflict, and upward inclusion.

Eugenia Bajet Mestre, Mihwa Seong, Huong Pham, and Jamie Gloor in front of HSG’s Haus Washington in St.Gallen

Our external PhD candidate, Tamara Kern (first on the left), also moved from Munich to the U.S. as part of her duties at Magna but will continue working with us from abroad to finish her PhD analyzing an inclusive leadership intervention.

Eugenia Bajet Mestre (second from the right) and Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor (first from the right) moved on up at the University of St.Gallen, joining the inspiring Institute of Responsible Innovation (IRI; most of the members shown on our recent team hiking event in Appenzell below). In addition to being 3 floors up (our offices were formerly in CCDI at FIM: thanks again for hosting us—especially the folks in the photo above and the CCDI management team), IRI is more focused on cutting-edge research under the direction of leading scholars: Profs. Drs. Charlotta Siren (front) and Vivianna He (center with Charlie the dog). Follow us on LinkedIn here or find out more information about the institute, our research, and our courses here.

Several of the IRI folks for our fall team event: a hike and a meal together in lovely (but rainy) Appenzell.

Jamie Gloor was also honored to present her research on sustainable leadership and narcissism at Oxford University (Said Business School) and actively participate in the Responsible Research in Business and Management Summit at Cambridge University.

More challenges to doing the work of DEI: Some loud voices might want you to think that diversity, equity, and inclusion are “dead”—they are unnecessary, unfair, and without value in modern organizations or leadership. Yet now more than ever do we need to band together, because diversity is already a given while equity and inclusion are the pathways to recruiting and retaining talent and leveraging the value of our ever-increasing employee diversity. See here for a short talk Jamie Gloor gave on the topic for the St.Galler Diversity & Inclusion Day in September.

Curious for more? See here for a longer (47min.) talk on the “Science of DEI” Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor gave this fall at the EAWAG Aquatic Research Institute.

More exchange with practice: In their service as active University of St.Gallen employees, Eugenia Bajet Mestre and Jamie Gloor offered talks and workshops on topics such as allyship and “breaking the ice on microaggressions” together with the WASH student group. Jamie Gloor and coauthors also published a practical compliment to their piece which is also now published in print in the Journal of Management on how bystanders can act as allies to reduce subtle, interpersonal discrimination toward women at work here in the Harvard Business Review.

Thanks to photographer Raphael Schnell.

In addition, as part of her activities with “More with Jamie Gloor", Jamie Gloor keynoted on (male) allyship for international pharmaceutical companies in Luzern and Visp, discussed how smart leaders are funny leaders (for Smart Government Day at Google Zurich), talked about the nexus between humor and DEI (e.g., for FernUni Schweiz), and—you guessed it—more!

Eugenia Bajet Mestre spoke for Hello 50:50 world advocating for more women in STEM, while Tamara Kern and Dr. Huong Pham also contributed “Inclusive Leadership: A Dynamic Dialogue on DE&I Resistance Between Research & Practice” here (also below) at the St.Galler Diversity & Inclusion Week.

More teaching today’s (and tomorrow’s) talents: Together with Prof. Dr. Anna Elsner, Prof. Dr. Jamie Gloor developed and delivered a new course called, “Time is Money?” for bachelors students. Starting in Kunsthaus Zurich and including field trips to St.Gallen Hospice and up the Climate Stairs, they critically explored the idiom from interdisciplinary perspectives and what it means for them as they begin their academic and professional careers. Eugenia Bajet Mestre also guest lectured on diversity for a sustainability course at the University of St.Gallen while new Asst. Profs. Seong and Pham launched their teaching at their new unis—off to a running start!

For executives and leaders, Jamie Gloor also offered a custom, on-site program on inclusive leadership for an international refractory products/servies supplier in Vienna, as well as impluse keynotes in St.Gallen on hot topics for SMEs such as humor and Artificial Intelligence.

Jamie Gloor was also lucky to coach several outstanding thesis students, including Emily Cognet Fante (on humor and well-being, with valuable assistance from Dr. Mihwa Seong), Romyna Wirth (on humor and leadership), and Leandra Schulin (on “maybe baby” bias).

Finally, Jamie Gloor discussed how children should stand up for each other in tough times to prevent bullying at school, including guest speaker and FC St.Gallen player Franziska Gauss, while Eugenia Bajet Mestre and Judith Scholtz (both of IRI-HSG) helped with crowd (and paper airplane) control. ;-) Hoping to have inspired some of these to “be the light” in the darkness to curb bullying and its negative effects, because as Franziska underlined, we need all kinds of people to be successful.

More community and bridge building: Academia can be lonely with days spent reading, writing, and reviewing: just you and your laptop. But "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" (Annie Dillard)--and we were so incredibly lucky to spend 3 days of our lives together with stellar scholars in an awe-inspiring, 838-year-old Swiss monastery! We pomodoroed, science slammed, caught up, and critically discussed our research and careers. Amazing women traveled from the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and beyond to join us and support our dual mission of rigorous, responsible management research and fostering more encouraging, inclusive research communities. Thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF for Jamie Gloor’s scientific exchange grant that made all of this possible.

From left to right in the main photo (above) are some of our participants: Jamie Gloor, Kris Byron, Mary Hausfeld, Enrica Ruggs, Anna Jasinenko, Laura Giurge, AK Ward, Lauren Howe, and Laura Little. In the photos below, you can also find Deanne Den Hartog, Corinne Post, Vivianne He, Charlotta Siren, Silvia Strohe, Samira Nazar, and Ivona Hideg.

More still to come: We have several more exciting developments, invited revisions, upcoming events, as well as innovative projects in the works. Stay tuned!

Last but not least, more gratitude, too: Thank *YOU* for being a part of our journey! Thanks to the HSG SOM dean’s office for putting in the admin muscle, to HSG HR with all of our personnel changes, as well as to Thomas Remplfer and Felix Germann for their invaluable help from HSG finance with our accounting and reporting admin.

Thank *YOU* for being a collaborator or reader of our work, a fellow scholar, a participant in our studies, an ally, a leader putting in the work for more DEI at work, an organizational partner inviting us for exchange or to share the science about evidence-based DEI and leadership, and/or supporter more broadly.

It takes a village—thanks for being part of our village! ❤️