Faculty

Richard Blackburn

Associate Professor

Kenan-Flagler Business School

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Richard Blackburn teaches management and organizational behavior, and is associate dean of the Undergraduate Business Program at UNC Kenan-Flagler. An award-winning teacher, his research interests include organizational and individual creativity and innovation and managing teams in the virtual environment. He is co-author of the textbook Managing Organizational Behavior.

Dr. Blackburn has worked with a variety of businesses and non-profit organizations, including Eli Lilly and Company, Caterpillar Tractor Company, CooperTools, Sonoco Products Company, UNC Hospitals, Johnson & Johnson, Grubb Management Company, SunHealth, Inc., Merrill Lynch and the U.S. Postal Service. He received his PhD and MBA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a BA from Carleton College.

Fay Cobb Payton

Professor of Information Systems/Technology

North Carolina State University

Dr. Fay Cobb Payton was named the 2016 North Carolina Technology Association Tech Educator of the Year. She was selected to participate in the 2016 White House Summit on the United State of Women. She received the 2013 National Coalition of Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) Undergraduate Mentoring Award. She is a member of the NC State University Women in Science and Engineering Advisory, and collaborates with several interdisciplinary groups at the institution.

Dr. Payton has appeared on national media outlets to discuss her research including health IT, tech leadership, diversity and inclusion in the technology industry, and under-representation of under-represented groups in STEM. She has collaborated and/or consulted with a number of organizations on these and other topics. She was awarded the first SAS Institute Fellow for her work in analytics and teaching in the IS/IT classroom, and has received two NC State University Alumni Extension Awards.

She is the author of Leveraging Intersectionality: Seeing and Not Seeing, an anthology of her research on STEM education and experiences in both academe and corporate environments.

Kathryn Deiss

Principal

Kathryn Deiss Consulting, LLC

Kathryn J. Deiss focuses her consulting services on libraries and other cultural and non-profit institutions. Areas of expertise are organizational development, facilitation, leadership development, innovation and creativity in the workplace, executive coaching, mentoring, organizational culture, change, and using dialogue for learning and understanding.

She serves as faculty for the ALA Leading to the Future Leadership Institute, NLM/AASHL Leadership Fellows Program, the California Library Leadership Institute, the TRLN Management Academy, the Richland Library Leaders Program (SC), and for the University of Minnesota Leadership Institute for Early Career Librarians from Underrepresented Groups and is a frequent facilitator of retreats, board development sessions, and other types of meetings across the United States and abroad.

Kathryn received her B.A. in Sociology from Trinity University (TX) and her MLS from the University at Albany. Prior to launching Kathryn Deiss Consulting, Kathryn held positions at two public libraries, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Northwestern University, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Metropolitan Library System (now RAILS) in Chicago and the Association of College & Research LIbraries (ACRL). She now has over 20 years of consulting experience working with academic and public libraries, state and regional agencies, and museums.

Kathryn was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico and is a visual artist.

Ann Elsner

Associate University Librarian of Administrative Services

Duke University

Ann Elsner provides leadership, oversight and management of the financial affairs and administrative operations of the Libraries, including Human Resources, Business Services, Facilities (including Shipping and Receiving), Security and the Library Service Center. Ann is a member of the Provost’s Academic Financial Leadership Group. Ann came to Duke in 2002 from Dar Al-Hekma College for Women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prior to that, she worked at Columbia College of Nursing in Milwaukee, WI and for the Central Intelligence Agency where she held various administration and financial management roles in the U.S. and abroad.

Ann holds an MBA from Babson College, Wellesley, MA and a BA in Business Administration from Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL. She is the proud parent to Matt and Catie. She lives in Apex, NC with her two dogs.

Roger Mayer

Professor

Poole College of Management

North Carolina State University

Dr. Roger C. Mayer is a Professor of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at North Carolina State University. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Notre Dame, Purdue University, Baylor University, Singapore Management University, and The University of Akron, where he served four years as department chair. He received a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University.

Mayer’s research is focused on trust, employee decision making, attitudes and effectiveness. A leading scholar on trust in organizations, his research has been published in many premiere scholarly journals; it has been cited thousands of times in the published literature across a wide variety of fields. He authored a theory of trust with David Schoorman and James Davis which was published in Academy of Management Review (AMR), management’s top theory journal. This paper was recognized in 2004 with the Influential Article Award 1995-1999 by the Conflict Management division of the Academy of Management. In 2006 it was recognized by AMR with the Best of the Second Decade Award for Frame-Breaking, Innovative Theory—at the time, one of only two papers to ever receive this honor.

Mayer served for 15 years as a member of the Editorial Review Board of Academy of Management Journal where he has been recognized for the quality of his reviews and the breadth of the topics he is able to review. He currently serves on the Editorial Review Board at Journal of Management. He has served as an organizational consultant to numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. In 1994 he won the Outstanding Teacher Award at the College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He has worked in a wide variety of organizations and industries, including firms in finance, research, construction, steel, and offshore oil drilling. He speaks frequently to business, legal, and civic groups on such topics as trust, leadership, and negotiation.

Dr. Paul W. Mulvey

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor

Poole College of Management

North Carolina State University

Dr. Mulvey has developed several new courses and taught over a dozen different human resources, management, and leadership classes, including 20 years of teaching leadership seminars and academies for the prestigious Park Scholarships Program at NC State University. He has won several teaching awards. Paul earned a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University.

Dr. Mulvey has conducted research, delivered executive education, and consulted with over 60 organizations. His research focuses on employee reward systems, work teams, recruitment, and most recently volunteerism and toxic leadership. He has written two books and published many book chapters and research articles in journals such as Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Journal, Compensation and Benefits Review, Industrial Relations, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The Business Sustainability Collaborative, WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association), TIAA-CREF, Sibson & Company, IBM, and the Council of Labor Research have funded his research. He has served as an expert witness on performance management issues.

Joe White

Director of Finance and Business

North Carolina State University

Joe White is the Director of Finance and Business for the NC State University Libraries. In this role, he manages the Libraries budget that spans several different funding sources and oversees the organization’s accounting and grant operations, prepares and reviews financial forecasts, and assures compliance with library, university, and state rules and regulations. White also is involved in organizational project management.

Prior to joining the NCSU Libraries, White worked in the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management overseeing the several budgets within the Department of Health and Human Services that totaled over $3.5 billion. White’s work included assisting with the development of several Governor Recommended Budgets across three different administrations and executing legislatively enacted budgets. White also led the development and implementation of a new statewide enterprise budget system. Prior to his experience in public sector finance, White was a high school history teacher.