Moira Rosek is a Higher Education professional with over 25 years of experience in helping students achieve their personal goals.  With a specialty in admission and enrollment trends, Moira seeks to help demystify the admission process, remove barriers to education, and create robust learning opportunities for those in the field of Human Resources.  Moira is also a passionate administrator who works towards streamlining the graduate student experience based on her personal experiences.  She has overseen the Graduate Programs in Human Resources since 2016 and is an avid adult learner having recently completed her MBA at the University of Connecticut in 2019.

Education:
B.A. Villanova University, 1996
MBA, University of Connecticut, 2019

Education: 

B.S. Business, North Carolina State University, 1998

MBA, University of Connecticut, 2006

Bridget Bozzi has over 20 years of Human Resources experience. Bridget has strong knowledge in recruitment, employee relations, leadership and employee development, training, compensation, benefits, workers’ compensation, immigration, payroll, and affirmative action. She has provided Human Resources services to companies in the manufacturing, high-tech and healthcare industries. Bridget is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Bridget is currently the Vice President of Human Resources for Lectra (formerly Gerber Technology).

Education: 

Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Administration, University of Hartford
M.S. in Global Business Management (Innovation & Entrepreneurship), Rensselaer
B.A. in Communications (Public Relations), Central Connecticut State University

Areas of Expertise:
Program Leadership/ MBA Recruiting / Business Communication / Management / Organizational Development / Operations Management / Alumni Relations / Public Speaking

A noted employment lawyer, board member, and speaker, Britt-Marie counsels companies, from startups to the Fortune 500, in many areas of employment law, including sensitive, high-risk personnel issues, workplace investigations, DEI, compliance and separations. She is a partner in the Labor + Employment Group at Robinson+Cole, an AmLaw 200 law firm, and was elected to the firm’s Managing Committee. Britt-Marie offers insightful, forward-thinking, and practical counsel, is well-versed in the key responsibilities of directors, and supports clients’ boards of directors seeking guidance on governance, risk, and strategy.

She regularly advises boards of directors, senior management, and human resources professionals regarding personnel policies, affirmative action compliance, pay equity, discipline and terminations, wage and hour issues, disability and reasonable accommodations, leaves of absence, employment contracts, unemployment, severance and separation agreements, reductions in force, and workplace health and safety issues. She also represents employers across various industries in litigation involving discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, and other employment claims.  Britt-Marie is a trained workplace investigator and regularly conducts, manages, and provides advice regarding workplace investigations involving all types of employment-related issues, particularly those requiring Board of Director and senior management involvement and high-profile matters. She serves as a faculty member for the Association of Workplace Investigators and frequently gives presentations on workplace investigations for Society of Human Resource Management chapters, the Association of Workplace Investigators, and other professional groups, as well as firm clients. Britt-Marie represents employers in claims of discrimination, wrongful termination, workers' compensation retaliation, and other employment disputes and litigation, including affirmative action compliance evaluations involving the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

She was appointed by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont to serve on the Board of the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority and also serves on a number of other Boards, including the Association of Workplace Investigators, Oak Hill, UConn Health, and Teach for America - Connecticut. She has been ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the State of Connecticut in the area of Labor & Employment since 2014 and in the Connecticut Super Lawyers list since 2020 after being recognized as a Rising Star from 2013 to 2018.

Dan is a Connecticut native with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and M.B.A. in Business Analytics from Central Connecticut State University.  He has over 15 years of professional work experience in a variety of roles in Human Resources, including the last 10 years in corporate environments specializing in HR & People Analytics.  Passionate about HR transformation, process improvement, and unlocking the potential of data in HR, Dan enjoys the challenge of working in this evolving discipline.  In his spare time, he loves to travel and explore new places.

Travis Grosser is an Associate Professor of Management and the former Academic Director of graduate programs in HRM at the University of Connecticut, currently Interim Department Head for the Boucher Management & Entrepreneurship Department. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Kentucky, with concentrations in organizational behavior and social network analysis. His research interests include: the antecedents and consequences of social networks in the workplace, employee innovation and creativity, knowledge sharing & collaboration, and organizational change. Grosser is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Group & Organization Management. He has conducted field research and consulted with a number of large corporations and small nonprofit organizations. He has published his research in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management.

Nora Madjar is an Associate Professor of Management at the University Of Connecticut School Of Business. She received her Ph. D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Bulgaria in 2011.

Her main expertise is creativity in the workplace and her research examines the social and contextual factors that stimulate or hinder creative performance and what stimulates creativity in negotiations. Her scholarly work also explores different ways to structure jobs to facilitate creative work and facilitate the creative process. She has multiple articles on creativity published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management and Academy of Management Journal, among others. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Professor Madjar teaches courses in organizational behavior, managing creativity and innovation and negotiations for both undergraduate and MBA students.

John Mathieu is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of Connecticut, and holds the Friar Chair in Leadership and Teams at UConn. His primary areas of interest include models of team and multi-team effectiveness, leadership, training effectiveness, and cross-level models of organizational behavior. He has conducted work with several Fortune 500 companies, the armed services (i.e., Army, Navy, and Air Force), federal and state agencies (e.g., NRC, NASA, FAA, DOT), and numerous public and private organizations. Dr. Mathieu has over 100 publications, 200 presentations at national and international conferences, and has been a PI or Co-PI on over $9.7M in grants and contracts. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Management. He serves on numerous editorial boards and has guest edited special volumes of top-level journals.

University administrator, diversity champion and mom of four, Joelle Amy Murchison effectively balances her career, family responsibilities and an active community and volunteer schedule.

A graduate of Brown University, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, Joelle effectively combines her passion and interests in education, inclusion, policy and communications in her work in diversity & inclusion and external partnerships at Connecticut’s flagship Top 20 public research university.

A native of Queens, and raised in Long Island, NY, Joelle takes her professional and leadership queues from her mother, a trailblazer in her own right, who was the first African American woman manager in the Social Security Administration in the 1970s. A graduate of Malverne Public Schools, following her post-secondary pursuits, Joelle began a career in higher education and the non-profit sector before transitioning to corporate America, and then returning to higher education in 2016.

Joelle is a proud life member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, Hartford Alumnae Chapter and the National Black MBA Association. Joelle is the recipient of numerous awards including most recently, the Community Service Award from Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc, the Trailblazer Award from the Voices of Women of Color and the Living Waters Award from the Connecticut Conference of the UCC.

In service to the community, Joelle, a member of Faith Congregational Church, serves as a director/trustee on the board of the Amistad Center for Art and Culture (Hartford, CT), Vice Chair of the board of RECenter (formerly The Discovery Center), a racial equity education organization, the Pembroke Center Associates, and College Possible, a national nonprofit focused on college access. She is also a member of Brown University’s Women’s Leadership Council, Corporator for the Village for Families and Children and a member of the Board of Ambassadors of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Joelle previously served 2 terms on the board of directors of both the Morgan State University Foundation and Leadership Greater Hartford and spent 10 years as a diversity trainer with the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute.

In her spare time, Joelle is building out an inclusion, communication, leadership and coaching practice which she affectionately calls ExecMommy. She lives in Connecticut with her family including her four amazing children who are the wind beneath her wings. At her core, Joelle is passionate about encouraging people to reach their highest potential and creating space to open dialogue to enhance inclusion and understanding.

Sonja is recognized within the human resources field for her unique expertise in international HR and driving change to achieve substantial business results. With nearly 30 years of experience, she has led global restructurings for mid- to large-sized companies, leading efforts to gain efficiency, achieve cost transparency, and spearhead alignments that result in annualized savings of $24 to $650 million. Sonja is viewed as an Entrepreneurial HR expert with proven business acumen and hands-on experience in managing a business and P&L. Additionally, she is widely regarded as a strategic business partner and confident in all facets of HR, serving as a subject matter expertise in business transformation, talent & culture management, and workforce analytics.

She currently is an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut where she develops and teaches graduate-level courses in Human Resource Management. In addition, she is the founder of Ardaso, an LLC offering a private wine label, organic spa products and customized precious stones jewelry. The company is dedicated to providing a source of revenue to selected local and global non-profit organizations.

Prior to this her vast expertise was utilized in the position of Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resource Officer at Tronox, the third largest global producer of the commodity chemical titanium dioxide with $2.6 billion in annual revenue and a team of 4,500 employees at 13 locations in the US, Europe, South African and Australia. She was instrumental in developing processes for the Compensation Committee ensuring compliance with ISS and SEC requirements. Launched innovative compensation, succession planning, and executive development programs for the company’s global businesses, while providing significant contributions during the creation of the company’s mission and values. Furthermore, Sonja was a key player in Tronox’ effort to improve culture, diversity, and morale.

Prior to her tenure at Tronox, Sonja was Vice President of HR for Heinz North America where she was responsible for leading all human resources activities for approximately 9,000 employees across the United States and Canada. Sonja has also served as Group Vice President of Human Resources for Alcoa where she supported the Global Rolled Products Division.

Sonja spent 22 years with Weyerhaeuser, an international forest products company, where she held various senior leadership roles both in the business and centers of expertise. There she instituted a best practice approach to succession planning, career development, and performance management. In 2000, she received Weyerhaeuser’s highest award, the President’s award, for achieving $14MM dollars in savings through various human resources initiatives.

Professor Kyoungjo (Jo) Oh is an assistant professor of management in the Boucher Management & Entrepreneurship Department at the UConn School of Business and currently serves as the interim academic director of the school’s Graduate Programs in Human Resource Management (2025–present). Jo’s research is regularly published in top-tier academic journals and focuses on leadership, teams, voice, stress, and affect. Beyond academia, he actively collaborates with organizations, providing consulting services to enhance leadership and organizational effectiveness. Before entering academia, Jo worked for several years at Hyundai Motor Group. He earned his master’s degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Professor Reilly is Interim Dean of the School of Business, Professor of Management and former Department Head of the Boucher Management & Entrepreneurship Department, where he teaches integrative strategy classes.  He was Academic Director for the School’s Graduate Programs in Human Resource Management from 2014-2019.  Greg is active in executive training and has led courses on developing strategy, HR metrics, strategic human resources and strategic financial management around the world.  He has led executive classes for managers

Greg’s research activities are focused on compensation, employee turnover, human capital, and the role of time in strategic management research. His work is regularly published in top tier academic journals.

Greg teaches and advises leaders from manufacturing, services, healthcare, government professional services and non-profit arts organizations. He most has most recently worked with executives from Precision Castparts Co., BrightView, Travelers, Paradigm Precision, General Dynamics Electric Boat, and COMEX/PPG. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Jennifer C. Roth is a human resources executive, certified executive coach, adjunct professor and trusted advisor with over 25 years of experience shaping organizational transformation, elevating leadership, and building future-ready talent strategies. She combines strategic insight with a deep understanding of organizational dynamics. Her career spans technology and financial services to central banking including prior roles as Managing Director, Head of Human Resources at Ambac and Head of People Experience Partners at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As a senior people leader, during her fourteen-year tenure at the New York Fed, she shaped enterprise-wide talent initiatives that strengthened leader accountability, enhanced workforce engagement, and built future-ready talent pipelines.

Clients and students alike value Jennifer’s ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution, bringing clarity, confidence, and measurable impact to leaders and teams. She is a credentialed Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. Additionally, she received a Leadership and Performance Coaching certificate from Brown University School of Professional Studies and certification in Delta Leadership’s Six Domains Leadership Model, reflecting her dedication to fostering leadership excellence and personal growth. Through her tailored coaching approach, Jennifer helps clients navigate change, develop their potential, and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Jennifer holds an M.Ed. in Instructional Design from Pennsylvania State University and B.A. in Education and Counseling from Bucknell University. Jennifer has certificates in Career Planning and Development from New York University, Leadership and Management Development from Wharton Executive Education and Business and Finance from Columbia University Executive Education.

Virginia Taylor is an experienced HR Strategic Leader and Educator with over 25 years of diverse HR experience in both corporate and nonprofit industries including manufacturing, sales, healthcare, construction management, industrial distribution, and aerospace. Virginia has a proven track record specializing in leadership development and strategic business partnership. She is skilled at counseling and coaching leaders of all levels during organizational change through workforce planning, leading through change, and providing training and support to first-time managers.

Virginia currently serves as faculty and coach for PAISE Leadership LLC delivering training and development to new managers in both corporate and non-profit organizations teaching the core competencies required to become effective leaders in the “First Time Manager Intensive” program.

Virginia received her Master’s in Human Resources Management from the University of Connecticut School of Business. She holds Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and SHRM-CP (Certified Professional) certifications. In addition, her Coaching certification is endorsed by the International Coaching Federation, and she is certified as a Trainer with DDI (Development Dimensions Inc., a leading global leadership consulting firm for leadership development).