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I am a Senior Lecturer in Industrial/Organisational Psychology, and the Founder and Director of the Master of Organisational Psychology at the University of Auckland. Since obtaining my PhD in 2013, I have published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters addressing issues related to employee health, safety, stress, and well-being, via resources building for managers and employees. My research has received funding from WorkSafe and Health Research Council of New Zealand, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of USA, National Science Foundation of China, and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. I am currently serving as the Deputy Editor for Stress and Health, and sitting on the editorial boards for Journal of Organisational Behavior and Occupational Health Science. I am passionate about working with organisations and managers to improve safety, health, and well-being of employees.

Michael T. Ford, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. Dr. Ford received a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from George Mason University and worked for 9 years in the Psychology department at the University at Albany, SUNY before joining the Management department at the University of Alabama. Dr. Ford’s research has appeared in several journals of interest to occupational health, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Work & Stress, and Psychological Bulletin. Dr. Ford has also served as an associate editor at Occupational Health Science and Journal of Vocational Behavior and has served on the Society for Occupational Health Psychology executive committee. Dr. Ford’s research interests include the work-family interface, the employee-organization relationship, and employee health and well-being.

Caroline Biron is a Professor of Occupational Health and Safety in the Management Department at the Faculty of Business & Administration, Laval University, Quebec, Canada. She is also the Director of the Centre of Expertise for Occupational Health & Safety which supports research development and provides practical prevention tools for managers and organizations. Caroline is also a researcher at the VITAM Centre of Research on Sustainable Health. Her work focusses on mainly on presenteeism at work and the implementation of organizational interventions to reduce exposure to psychosocial risks. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Workplace Health Management.

Professor Jarrod Haar (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and has tribal affiliations of Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Mahuta. In 2018, Professor Haar was appointed as a Member of the Marsden Fund Council and is the Convenor of the Marsden Economics and Human Behavioural Sciences panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi (2020), a Research Fellow of the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (since 2012), and Chartered Fellow of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ). He won the inaugural HRINZ HR Researcher of the Year Award in 2016. In April 2016, he became the Deputy Director of the NZ Work Research Institute. In 2017, he won the Faculty of Business and Economics (AUT) Individual Researcher of the Year. He won AUTs premier award: The AUT Medal in 2021. His research approach spans broadly across a wide range of management topics, but with a strong focus on Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour.

Dr. Brockwood is a Senior Research Associate at OHSU since 2015, but prior to that was at Portland State University (PSU) overseeing two major federally-funded grants with Dr. Leslie Hammer. Dr. Brockwood received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology & Systems Science from PSU in 2002. She was an Assistant Professor at Pacific University in the School of Professional Psychology from 2003-2008. Dr. Brockwood is a Veteran having served in the U.S. Army from 1988-1992 in Military Intelligence as a Signals Specialist/Cryptologic Linguist.

Johan’s research is rooted in the field of work and organizational psychology and revolves around how the topic of how changes in organizations affect both employees and the organization. One major line of research he has followed is the continuous advancement of workplace intervention studies. The content of the interventions he has been involved in spans management training, participatory processes in work teams and organizational development.
He also studies how organizational change affects employee wellbeing and in particular how change management initiatives can affect the perception and impact of change processes. He has done work on applying organization theory (such as sensemaking and actor-network theory) to work and organizational psychology topics. He is currently an associate editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.