OLPD Students, Faculty Collect Awards at AHRD

Numerous graduate students and faculty at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities' Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development received major awards at the 2025 annual conference of the Association of Human Resource Development (AHRD). AHRD is the premium professional organization in the field of Human Resource Development, with membership worldwide.

Recipients of awards include:

Stephanie Sisco, OLPD Assistant Professor:
Early Career Scholar Award, awarded to an outstanding HRD scholar in the early stages of his/her career who has made identifiable and significant contributions in scholarly research to the field of HRD.

Ana Carolina Rodriguez, OLPD faculty and PhD alumna: 
Esworthy Malcolm S. Knowles Dissertation of the Year Award for the dissertation "Integrating care and paid work:The career development of parents of people with disabilities in Brazil" (advisor Alexandre Ardichvili). Read more. 

Ethan Li, OLPD Lecturer and PhD alumnus: 
Cutting Edge Award for the paper "How a generative AI chatbot supports learner-controlled training"

Joshua Collins, OLPD Associate Professor: 
Cutting Edge Award for the paper "If I don't who will?: Narrative inquiry of critical human resource development scholars' professional identity development" (co-authored with Laura Bierema and Eunbi Sim of University of Georgia)

Kenneth Bartlett, OLPD Professor: 
Cutting Edge Award for the paper "The nature of the human resource development research-practice gap: An analysis of professional and academic literature 1990-2022" (co-authored with Ying Feng, OLPD PhD alumna now employed ath Clemson University)

Dane Verret, PhD student (HRD) 
Graduate Student Outstanding Paper Award for the paper "A framework for Black employers and community anchor institutions development: An emergent conceptual development from a grounded theory HRD case study"