Business Professor Talks 'Soft Skills for Hard-Core Techies' at National STEM Conference, May 20
May 5, 2016
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Lisa Stickney, associate professor in the University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business, will deliver a talk, "Building Soft Skills in Hard-Core Techies," on Friday, May 20 as part of the U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference in Baltimore.
The conference, now in its fifth year, "brings together the brightest minds in business, academia and government not only to contribute key insights to the nationwide STEM debate; but also to ensure that STEM's hard-won momentum is channeled into practical, self-sustaining strategies for inspiring, educating and hiring the diverse STEM workforce of tomorrow," according to the conference's website.
Stickney serves in the Department of Management and International Business in the Merrick School of Business, where she holds the Dean James Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She is co-editor of current empirical research for the Organization Management Journal and associate editor of experiential exercises for Management Teaching Review. Her teaching specialities include organizational behavior and human resource management at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. Her research encompasses anger in organizations, emotional contagion, gender studies, and management pedagogy. It has been published in Human Relations, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, The Journal of Management Education and in Research in Emotions in Organizations, among others.
Learn more about Prof. Stickney's talk at the 2016 U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference.
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