literature Experts

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Associate ProfessorLouisiana State University

Prof. Ruffin’s work focuses on contemporary Southern fiction, speculative storytelling, and explorations of race, identity, and inequality.

Ace Vo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Jason Brooks

C.E.O., ConsultantMaven Consulting Group Inc.

Peak performance coach and strategist. Helping people create sustainable behavioural change to optimize performance and wellbeing

Sydney Finkelstein

Associate Dean for Executive Education; Steven Roth Professor of ManagementDartmouth College

Leadership and strategy expert focusing on the strengths and weaknesses of executive talent

Ashwini Tiwari Pandey, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Public HealthAugusta University

Tim Slack

ProfessorLouisiana State University

Dr. Slack's is an expert on social, economic, and demographic change with a special focus on rural people and places.

Elle Boag

Associate Professor of Applied Social PsychologyBirmingham City University

Elle Boag's research has an attachment-related basis, and covers topics that extend her PhD research on prejudice and discrimination.

Peter O'Blenis

COOFlick Software Inc

Enterprise Mobile Apps and IT in Health Care Research

Mitchell Neubert, Ph.D.

Professor of Management and Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in BusinessBaylor University

Dr. Neubert explores how leadership, particularly servant leadership, and ethics affect performance and well-being of people & organizations

Azadeh Sawyer

Assistant ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Azadeh Omidfar Sawyer's interdisciplinary research focuses on quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate building envelopes.