Deborah McPhee
Chair and Professor at Brock University
Dr. Deborah McPhee (nee Zinni), the former Associate Dean of Undergraduates and AACSB at the Goodman School of Business at Brock University, is a Professor, and Chair of her department. She possesses over 25 years of senior Human Resources Management experience. She has authored numerous refereed journal articles, HRM textbooks, book chapters, and case studies. Her research interests’ focus on HRM policies, attraction and retention of talent, aging workers and career transition, and Health & Safety. Dr. McPhee is currently working with a team of researchers on violence against women and the promotion of friendly pet shelter policies, for which they have received funding from SSHRC. Deborah is leading a funded Partnership Grant – SSHRC – Hennebry, J. and Schosser, F., investigating the resilience of migrant workers in the cannabis industry, particularly the health and safety issues related to their employment. Deborah is also part of funded Partnership Grant – SSHRC – Co-applicant – Schlosser, F. (PI), McPhee, D.M., & Carvalho de Azevedo, M., exploring the involvement of institutions in matching immigrant newcomers and closing family businesses in Windsor. She is also working on several other research projects related to career transition of late career executives into the stigmatized cannabis industry, and impact of COVID on nursing retention on two international projects (Canada, Portugal and Finland; Canada, Finland and Brazil). Deborah is the recipient of two national awards for teaching and advancing HRM and Health and Safety as a field of study.
Email: dmcphee@brocku.ca
Francine Schlosser
Odette Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor
As the Odette Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Dr. Schlosser’s research contributes to understanding how educators, employees, migrants, and employers can stimulate entrepreneurial readiness and innovative knowledge-based strategic involvement; and manage mid- and late-career transitions. She focuses on the development of innovative, multi-disciplinary, work-integrated and multi-national experiential course student learning opportunities. Dr. Schlosser held the University of Windsor’s Golden Jubilee Professorship at the Odette School of Business for research excellence from 2013-2018. For more than 15 years, she has engaged students with the Windsor business community through multi-disciplinary venture teams and consulting projects. As Executive Director of the University of Windsor’s Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre (EPICentre) from 2016-2019, she worked collaboratively to establish a multi-disciplinary entrepreneurial culture.
Email: fschloss@uwindsor.ca
Gerry Kerr
Associate Professor, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor
Dr. Gerry Kerr received a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada. His specialties include Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, both of which Dr. Kerr has taught full-time since 2001, when he joined the Odette School of Business. Since then, Gerry has gratefully received multiple teaching awards from undergraduate, graduate, and executive students.
Publications include articles in Business Horizons, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Management History, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Personnel Psychology.
At the Odette School of Business, Gerry has served as Area Chair for Strategy & Entrepreneurship and as M.B.A. Program Director. Under his leadership, tighter alignment was created in the M.B.A. between classroom and practice. This work included placing greater emphasis on general management formation, with entrepreneurship and innovation as core activities. Before joining Odette, Gerry filled managerial positions in the retailing and publishing industries.
Email: gkerr@uwindsor.ca
Kyle Brykman
Assistant Professor, Management, University of Windsor
Dr. Brykman’s research focuses on interpersonal team dynamics and employee voice. In particular, he is interested in how leaders can motivate employees to speak up with higher quality ideas and how to create and sustain highly effective teams, such as building teams’ resilient capabilities and helping teams successfully manage conflict.
His research has been published in several prestigious academic journals, including the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Small Group Research and Group & Organization Management.
Dr. Brykman holds a PhD in Management (Organizational Behaviour) from Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, an MSc in Management (Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management) from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an HBA from Ivey School of Business.
Email: kyle.Brykman@uwindsor.ca
Marcia Carvalho de Azevedo
Associate Professor, Business Administration, Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp)
Marcia Carvalho de Azevedo is an Associate Professor at the Business Administration program at Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). She is a psychologist with master and doctoral degrees in Business Administration, both from Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. Her research interests are human resources, aging workers, entrepreneurship and research methodology. She has published papers in Academic Journals, like Personnel Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, and Knowledge and Process Management. Her pre-university career includes working as project manager and consultant, in private and public sectors.
Email: marcia.azevedo@unifesp.br
Nahid Sultana
Former Post-doctoral research fellow at the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor and Windsor City Network Coordinator for the BMRC-IRMU Partnership
Nahid is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor and Windsor City Network Coordinator for the BMRC-IRMU Partnership. She holds a PhD in Social Work from McGill University, Montreal. Her research interests include poverty and inequality, asset-based intervention, social policy, and immigrants. Her works have appeared in journals such as Journal of Social Service Research, International Social Work, Research Journal of Social Sciences, and Asian Affairs among others.
She holds an MSW from the University of Calgary and an MPhil degree in Public Administration and was a faculty member of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. She worked as a research assistant at the CRCF (McGill University) and the Centre for Social Work Research and Professional Development (Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary).
She was involved in research projects that examined the role of NGOs in developing countries in reducing poverty through micro-finance programs and increasing awareness among disadvantaged women.
Email: nahid.sultana@uwindsor.ca
