Meet Tiffany

Welcome and thank you for stopping by.

I work as an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Georgia Institute of Technology. I earned my PhD in Management and Organization at Pennsylvania State University, and my Masters in Human Resources and Industrial Relations from the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Within academia:

  • My research explores the experience (or lack thereof) of wholeness and worthiness in workplaces.
  • I primarily engage in field research (often drawing upon qualitative methodologies), and some of my favorite research contexts are non-profits, small businesses, social enterprises, and academic institutions.
  • My current ongoing grant-awarded research is on workers in the coffee industry. Read more about that here and here.
  • Some of my published research can be found in Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP), Organization Studies, Organizational Psychology Review, and Industrial-Organizational Perspectives. View my full CV with information about professional memberships, presentations, academic service, and journal reviews here.
  • I have taught 800 business school students (thus far) and in Spring 2024, I was acknowledged as a Poets & Quant Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professor for the class I created that specifically focuses cultivating cultures of wholeness.
  • I serve as an Associate Editor of OBHDP.

Outside of the classroom and ivory tower, I coach, consult, and teach yoga, meditation, and rest-based practices.  In this role, I help over-worked and over-looked do-gooders to boldly embody – and cultivate – a sense of wholeness.  Towards this end, I

  • ..created WHOLE (a journey for Black Indigenous and Women of Color in Academia who want to unravel + resist harmful approaches to work through meditative practices). This program, which began in 2019, bridges my own and other scholars’ research on work, equity, and wellness with embodied practices such as meditation and deep relaxation. It, selfishly, also fulfills my own desire to experience recovery and care within community.
  • … have worked with multiple organizations with global reach such as Center for Trauma and Embodiment to build cultures whereby members’ humanity is centered, and values such as equity and well-being are not only talked about – but they are embodied.
  • … have spoken to over 60 audiences thus far about cultivating cultures of wholeness.

Perhaps most importantly, I am on a mission to practice living through a lens of wholeness each day.  To resist harmful work norms in my own life, and to creatively make space for myself, beyond my work.  With this, I love being a wife, bonus mama, auntie, and a member of some amazing friend groups. Some of my favorite activities include:

  • indulging in snacks,
  • enjoying dream journals,
  • learning languages,
  • traveling,
  • engaging in deep convos,
  • and geeking out about astrology + the cosmos.

Let’s stay connected:

  • Instagram:  Follow the ongoing journey of me, my researching,  my living, and WHOLE here.
  • Sign up for my newsletter here.

In wholeness,

Tiffany