Ana Carolina Rodriguez
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Pronouns: she, her, hers
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Coordinator of the Master of Learning and Talent Development
Areas of interest
Work-life relationships
Career development
Ethics of care
Organizanization development
PhD, Human Resource Development, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
MBA, Human Resource, Fundação Instituto de Administração (FIA), Brazil -
B.S., Food Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil
My research interests center on the relationship between paid work and other aspects of our lives, such as caregiving and self-care. I am particularly interested in investigating how we can develop healthier relationships with work and how organizations can facilitate this. I have also been exploring the adoption of the ethics of care as a moral framework for human resource development and, more broadly, for more sustainable ways of doing business. I like to examine these topics from a systemic perspective, leveraging organization development and dialogic approaches. I have over 20 years of experience in the fields of Organization Development and Human Resources, having worked as an HR/OD manager, an OD consultant, and as the owner of my own small consulting business. I am also a Professional Certified Coach (ICF-PCC) and a Certified Conflict Mediator.
Courses Taught
OLPD 3641 - Introduction to Organization Development
OLPD 5605 - Strategic Human Resource Development
Professional Affiliations
● Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD)
● International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Awards and Honors
Esworthy Malcolm S. Knowles Dissertation of the Year Award, 2024
Ray Prince Endowed Fellowship, 2023-2024
Sharon and Louis Quast Memorial Fellowship, 2022-2023
Camille S. Wall Endowed Fellowship Award, 2021-2022
Cho, H., Rodriguez, A.C., Ardichvili, A. (2025). Generational Differences Under Scrutiny: Issues and Implications for HRD. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15234223251337115
Rodriguez, A.C. (2025). When care work and paid work intersect – Impacts of long-life caregiving in mothers' professional trajectories. Book Chapter in G. Currie & K. Pozniak (Eds.). From Mothers to Caregivers, Demeter Press.
Rodriguez, A. C. & Cavallo T. (2024).Developing supportive work-life initiatives: A systemic and intersectional framework. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/19394225241297021
Cavallo T., Rodriguez. A.C. (2024). Organizational support after early pregnancy loss: The importance of training and awareness development. Advances in Developing Human Resources. https://doi.org/10.1177/15234223241267894
Rodriguez, A. C., Lobo, D., Ardichvili, A. A., & Casa Nova, S.P. de C. (2023). What does caring HRD look like in practice? A case study of two social enterprises in Brazil. Human Resource Development International, 26(5), 500–520. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2022.2160886
Lobo, D., Rodriguez, A. C., Casa Nova, S. P. de C., & Ardichvili, A. A. (2022). Five practices for building local capacity in sustainability-driven entrepreneurship for place-based transformations. Sustainability, 14(5), 3027. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14053027
Rodriguez,
A.C. (2025). Life domains
synchrony – Lessons from those who care. Full-manuscript presentation at the
AHRD Annual Conference 2025, Arlington.
Cho, H., Sunandar, D., Ardichvili, A. Bartlett,
K., & Rodriguez, A.C. (2025).
Employer branding from the perspective of human resource development: A
narrative review and future directions. Poster presentation at the AHRD Annual
Conference 2025, Arlington.
Rodriguez,
A.C. (2024).
Care and Career – The
career decisions of parents of people with disabilities. Poster presentation at
the AHRD Annual Conference 2024, Arlington.
Rodriguez,
A.C. (2024). Violence Against Women –
When organizations take action. Poster presentation at the AHRD Annual
Conference 2024, Arlington.
Rodriguez,
A.C., & Oteman, Q. (2023). Fostering decent
work – Supporting low-income youth school-to-work transition. Poster
presentation at the AHRD Annual Conference 2023, Minneapolis.
Rodriguez,
A.C., Casa Nova, S., Quintão, A. A.
& Ardichvili, A.(2023). Ethics of care in the corporate world: An illusion?
Presentation at the
International University Forum for Human Resource Development Conference,
Dublin, Ireland.
Rodriguez,
A.C. (2022). How parenting a person
with a disability impacts parents’ professional experience. Presentation at the
International University Forum for Human Resource Development Conference,
Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Rodriguez,
A.C., Lobo, D., Casa Nova, S., &
Ardichvili, A. (2021). Caring HRD: Advancing understanding of HRD as a practice
of care. Poster presentation at the AHRD Virtual Annual Conference 2022,
Arlington, USA.