Dorothy Agger-Gupta, Ph.D.
Interim Dean of Academic Affairs | Fielding Graduate University
Victoria, BC, CANADA
Working together for a more just and equitable world through education, imagination, technology, and art
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Biography
Dorothy Agger-Gupta, PhD, is an experienced professor, administrator, and admissions coordinator at Fielding Graduate University. In addition to being a doctoral faculty member in the Human and Organizational Development Program (HOD), she has served as an Admissions Coordinator, Program Director, Associate Dean, a faculty member of Fielding’s Board of Trustees, and Fielding’s Dean for Academic Affairs.
Dr. Agger-Gupta is HOD admissions coordinator, in addition to serving as a doctoral professor for Human Development (HD) and Organizational Development and Change (ODC) doctoral students. She in engaged in several Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives at Fielding and is a member of ILA, the International Leadership Association where she co-chairs the Arts & Leadership community. She publishes and presents at conferences on issues of ethics, social responsibility, AI and Media, art and creativity, gendered identities, women’s leadership, and education.
Dr. Agger-Gupta’s early career included several years as a professional artist in western MA and as a social worker in Lexington, KY and Tucson, AZ. She then transitioned into the field of computer technology and developed systems for hospitals, mental health consortiums, corporations, and non-profits. Her work included the development of an operating system as writing and illustrating one of Apple’s first user manuals. After receiving her PhD in Management, Dr. Agger-Gupta’s transitioned into an academic career, serving as an assistant professor in Management Science at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and as a program director in an organization and technology department at the University of San Francisco.
She lives in Victoria, BC Canada with her husband Niels, and travels frequently to the US and Europe In addition to AI and her family, her interests focus on women’s leadership, the re-discovery of the forgotten histories of women artists around the world, and the life-long learning and development of her art.
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Residing on the traditional lands of the Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) and Lkwungen (Songhees) families
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Areas of Expertise (22)
Phenomenography & Action Research
Organization Studies
Online Gaming and Leadership Competencies
Social Change & Women's Art
Organizational Innovation & Transformative Change
Media Information & Knowledge
Information Society & Knowledge Organizations
Women & Online Games
Games & Online Gaming
Variation Theory & Phenomenography
Virtual Collaboration
Healthcare Leadership
Virtual Research
Project Management
Systems Theory
Social Networks
International Leadership
Praxis
Art Based Research
Information Quality
Transnational Inquiry
Social Media & Social Change
Education (2)
University of Massachusetts, School of Management: PhD, Management Information Systems and Organizational Behaviour 1989
University of Massachusetts: BA, Psychology
Affiliations (6)
- Academy of Management
- Collaborative Action Research Network
- European Academic Research and Learning Institute (EARLI)
- EARLI SIG 9: Phenomenography and Variation Theory
- International Leadership Association
- Organization Development Network
Event Appearances (6)
Evidence Based Coaching - The Next Best Practices
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai Shanghai, China
2011-05-18
The world cafe as co-generative action research method
(October, 2014) Conference Workshop presented at the 16th Annual International Leadership Association Conference Hilton Bayfront Hotel, San Diego, California
Leadership, sinkholes, & planned change: Disciplinary knowledge & necessary conditions of scholar-practitioner graduate learning from the perspectives of phenomenography and variation theory
(September, 2014) Conference presentation presented at the Disciplinary knowledge and necessary conditions of learning: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) SIG9 Phenomenography Conference Regent’s College, Oxford, UK
Phenomenographic action research: Improving practice through embracing variation
(November, 2013) Conference Workshop presented at the Collaborative Action Research Network Conference Tromso, Norway
Collaborative phenomenographic action research with multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual teams: University Health Network (UHN) project case study
(August, 2012) Conference Workshop presented at the European Association for Research on Learning & Instruction (EARLI) Special Interest Group 9 on Phenomenography & Variation Theory Biennial Conference Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden
Embracing variation: Building frameworks for leaders to promote integrity in organizations through discernment, dialogue, and analysis of variation
(March, 2011) Conference Workshop presented at the Western Academy of Management 2011 Conference Victoria, B.C., Canada
Articles (1)
Uncertain Frontiers
Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training
Sitting in her kitchen in Wisconsin, with her children finally asleep, Linda—an accountant, single mother, and graduate student—turns on her computer and logs on to an online seminar on global leadership. She reads the entries posted by the professor, a public ...
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