2025 Online Gathering of POS Scholars
Monica Worline & Guy Itzchakov
July 16, 2025
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
Online via Zoom Meeting
A Celebration of Deep Listening and Human Connection in Advance of the Academy of Management
Join us in creating a new tradition! In place of our annual POS Breakfast at the Academy of Management, this year we are gathering online in advance of the conference. We are celebrating community and the transformative power of deep listening. In a world where we are surrounded by noise yet starved for genuine understanding, the art of listening is one of our most powerful tools for creating thriving organizations and flourishing communities.
Carrying parts of our POS Breakfast tradition into this new form of gathering, we welcome Dr. Guy Itzchakov of the University of Haifa as our Idea Host for the session. Guy will share a short talk with insights from his research on listening. He will also lead us in interactive activities that reveal listening as far from a passive act – helping us experience a force for extraordinary human connection. We will also highlight new work in POS and have a chance for members of our community to ensure that they can reconnect in Copenhagen for those who are attending AOM in person.
CPO Faculty Event Host:
Monica Worline, Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations; Faculty, Organizations and Management, University of Michigan
Idea Host:
Guy Itzchakov, Associate Professor; Department Chair in the Department of Human Services, University of Haifa
Guy Itzchakov directs the “Interpersonal Listening and Social Influence Lab.” Guy received his PhD in Business Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2017) and was a postdoctoral fellow at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto (2018). His research focuses on the effects of high-quality listening on listeners’ and speakers’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors, as well as listening training in organizations. Guy’s research includes laboratory experiments, field studies, and listening training studies. The latter examines how listening training programs in organizations impact managers, employees, and organizational outcomes.
Other research lines include attitudes and persuasion, attitude ambivalence, and goal setting. In 2023, Guy received an early career award from the Attitudes and Social Influence Group at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. His research appeared in leading journals in Social and Organizational Psychology such as the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experiment Social Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Applied Psychology: An International Review. His research received funding from the Israel Science Foundation, the Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Guy also writes a blog for Psychology Today called “The Listening Lens.”
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