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SOUTH AFRICA AMBASSSADOR: Stella Nkomo (Nkomosm@unisa.ac.za)
Dr.
Stella M. Nkomo is a Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management
at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria South Africa. Prior to joining the University
of Pretoria she was the Bateman
Professor of Business Leadership at the University of South
Africa’s Graduate School of Business
Leadership. Dr. Nkomo teaches in the
areas of leadership, change management, diversity management, organizational
behaviour, and human resource management.
A former Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute
of Radcliffe College of Harvard
University, her
nationally recognized work on race and gender in organizations and managing
diversity appears in numerous journals, edited volumes, and magazines. She is
listed in Who’s Who in the
Management Sciences.
Dr.
Nkomo has made numerous presentations to both academic and practitioner
audiences. She is or has served on the
editorial board of several management journals including the Organization, Academy of Management Review, Work and Occupations, Organization,
South African Journal of Human Resource Management, South African Journal of
Labor Relations, Leadership, and the Journal of Management Education. She was recently appointed an Associate
Editor of Organization. Her research has been published in several
top journals including Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management
Learning and Education Journal, Journal of
Applied Behavioral Science, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management
Executive, and Work
and Occupations. She is co-author
with Dr. Ella L. J. Bell of the
critically acclaimed Harvard Business School Press book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women
and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Dr. Nkomo has consulted with organisations
both profit and not-for-profit on issues of changing race and gender
relations, leadership, leadership development, managing diversity, human
resource management issues, and strategic planning in both USA and South
African organisations.
She
is a former member of the executive board of the Human Resource Management
Division and former chair of the Women in Management Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Nkomo also served on the Board of
Governors of the Academy
of Management, the
premier association for business school scholars and educators. She is the recipient of many honors. She
received a Richard D. Irwin Fellowship for her doctoral research on strategic
human resource planning. During her
tenure at the University of North Carolina, she received the Belk
College of Business
Research Excellence Award and the Bank
of America Teaching Excellence Award.
The Charlotte Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women
awarded her a Trailblazer Award in 1999.
Dr. Nkomo is the recipient of the 2009 Sage Award for Scholarly
Contributions to gender and diversity in organizations. She received the Researcher of the Year Award in 2001 and
2004 from the Graduate School of Business Leadership at UNISA. Dr. Nkomo is a former member of the Board of
Governors of the Center for Creative
Leadership.
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