The Workplace Bullying Institute and the New Workplace Institute are collaborating on an important new initiative, the creation of the U.S. Academy on Workplace Bullying, Mobbing, and Abuse.
The Academy will support and promote the multi-disciplinary work of its Fellows, a group of leading and emerging educators, researchers, practitioners, writers, and advocates who are dedicated to understanding, preventing, stopping, and responding to workplace bullying and related forms of interpersonal mistreatment.
Although we recognize the universality of these destructive behaviors, we are creating this network to focus on the unique challenges posed by American employee relations, mental health, and legal systems.
This initiative has been in the works for over a year, and I’m delighted to see it taking shape. The Academy’s website, to which more will be added in the months and years to come, is here. And here is the initial list of Fellows.
Academy Co-Facilitators
- Gary Namie, Ph.D.
Director, Workplace Bullying Institute, Bellingham, WA - David C. Yamada, J.D.
Professor of Law and Director, New Workplace Institute, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
Academy Fellows
(Note: Fellow status does not imply agreement with, or endorsement of, editorial, analytical, or public policy positions taken by the Workplace Bullying Institute or the New Workplace Institute.)
- Beverly J. Aho, M.B.A., J.D.
Attorney, James H. Gilbert Law Group, Eden Prarie, MN - Carol Arao, M.A.
Co-Coordinator, California Healthy Workplace Advocates
Columnist, Workplace Bullying Institute blog - David W. Ballard, Psy.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Executive Director for Organizational Excellence
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC - Peggy Ann Berry, Ph.D. candidate, R.N., SPHR, COHN-S
Owner, Thrive At Life: Working Solutions Dayton, OH - Jane Bethel
President, SEIU/NAGE Local R4-200, Norfolk, VA
State Coordinator, Virginia Healthy Workplace Advocates - Sharon Brennan, Ph.D.
Past Pres. & 2014 President-elect, Division of Organizational, Consulting & Work Psychology
New York State Psychological Association; Psychoanalyst, NY, NY - Jessi Eden Brown, M.S., LMHC, LPC, NCC
Psychotherapist, Seattle, WA
Professional Coach, Workplace Bullying Institute - Carrie Clark, M.A.
Co-Founder, California Healthy Workplace Advocates - Ellen Pinkos Cobb, J.D.
Senior Legal Analyst, Isoceles Group, Boston, MA
Author, Bullying, Violence, Harassment, Discrimination and Stress: Emerging Workplace Health and Safety Issues (2013) - Lana Cooke
State Coordinator, West Virginia Healthy Workplace Advocates - Barbara Coloroso
Author, The Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander (Wm. Morrow, 2009)
Expert in Youth Bullying, Littleton, CO - Pamela Countouris
Bullying Prevention Trainer and Consultant, TCB Training & Consulting, Pittsburgh, PA - Teresa A. Daniel, J.D., Ph.D.
Dean & Professor, Human Resource Leadership Program, Sullivan University
Consultant & Author, Stop Bullying At Work (SHRM, 2009) - Michelle K. Duffy, Ph.D.
Professor, Work & Organizations, Center for Human Resources & Labor Studies
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota - Maureen Duffy, Ph.D.
Author, Overcoming Mobbing (Oxford U Press, 2014) and Mobbing: Causes, Consequences & Cures
(Oxford U Press, 2012) and Psychotherapist & Consultant, Miami Shores, FL - Lisa Farwell, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Santa Monica College - Carol Fehner
Co-Coordinator, California Healthy Workplace Advocates
Union Bullying Consultant, AFGE National Officer (Ret.) - Bernice L. Fields, J.D.
Arbitrator & Attorney, Minneapolis, MN - Jackie Gilbert, Ph.D.
Professor of Management, Middle Tennessee State University
State Coordinator, Tennessee Healthy Workplace Advocates - Denise Halverson, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University
State Coordinator, Utah Healthy Workplace Advocates - Leslie Hammer, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Portland State University - Katherine A. Hermes, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University - Victoria Johnson, Ph.D.
Author & State Coordinator, Pennsylvania Healthy Workplace Advocates - Melody M. Kawamoto, M.D., M.S.
Public Health & Occupational Medicine Physician, Cincinnati, OH - Loraleigh Keashly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communications, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI - Wynne Kearney, Jr., M.D.
Surgeon & Activist, Mankato, MN - Kevin Kennemer, M.A.
President, The People Group, Tulsa, OK - Paul Landsbergis, M.P.H., Ed.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY - Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication, North Dakota State University
Author, Adult Bullying: A Nasty Piece of Work (2013) - Lewis Maltby, J.D.
Founder & Director, National Workrights Institute, Princeton, NJ
Author, Can They Do That? Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace (Portfolio, 2009) - Andrew Mitchell
Activist, Blogger – Stop Workplace Bullies Now, Dixon, IL - Ruth F. Namie, Ph.D.
Founder, Workplace Bullying Institute
Author, The Bully-Free Workplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Bully At Work (Sourcebooks, 2009, 2nd ed.) - Joel H. Neuman, Ph.D.
Director Center for Applied Management, State University of New York at New Paltz
Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior - Christina Purpora, R.N., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Nursing, University of San Francisco - Judith A. Richman, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago - Heidi R. Riggio, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles - Kathleen M. Rospenda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago - Mike Schlicht, M.S.
Founder & Co-Director, New York Healthy Workplace Advocates - Peter Schnall, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine
Director, Center for Social Epidemiology - Michelle E. Smith, M.A.Ed.
Co-Founder, California Healthy Workplace Advocates - Gregory Sorozan, M.Ed., L.C.S.W.
President SEIU/NAGE Local 282, Quincy, MA
State Coordinator, Massachusetts Healthy Workplace Advocates - Matt Spencer, Ed.D.
Consultant, Workplace Bullying in Schools Project
Author, Exploiting Children: School Board Members Who Cross the Line (R&L Education, 2013) - Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Professor, Florida Atlantic University & Medical College of Wisconsin
Author, Overcoming Mobbing (Oxford U Press, 2014) and Mobbing: Causes, Consequences & Cures
(Oxford U Press, 2012) - Lamont E. Stallworth, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, Loyola University of Chicago
Founder & Chairman, Center for Employment Dispute Resolution - Kerri L. Stone, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University, Miami, FL - USN LCDR Leedjia A. Svec, Ph.D.
Director & Senior Scientist, Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, Patrick AFB, FL - Bennett J. Tepper, Ph.D.
Deans Distinguished Professor of Management & Human Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH - Darren Treadway, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Organization & Human Resources, State University of New York at Buffalo - Esque Walker, M.S., Ph.D.
Arbitrator/Texas Credentialed Distinguished Mediator
State Coordinator, Texas Healthy Workplace Advocates - Tom Witt, M.L.S.
Co-Director, New York Healthy Workplace Advocates
Minding the Workplace 
This is a really exciting development for workers everywhere! Great minds that don’t always think alike have the potential to change the world…and workers everywhere know that the world of work needs changing. Congratulations!
Kachina, thank you, it’s a very positive development. We wanted to get a terrific group of people under a big roof, so to speak, to highlight their good works and facilitate interaction. There’s more to come!
Fantastic cross-section of talent! I expect this will be an energetic and powerful group! Congratulations.