Unlocking Resources for Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience

July 20, 2020

About the event

The global pandemic and the recent tragic killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and countless other Black Americans have disrupted our lives and organizations at a local and global level. While the current situation can be frightening, saddening, angering, challenging, and depleting, there are also clear signs of the potential for positive change and growth. We are all being challenged to unlock critical human-based resources such as hope, trust, commitment, creativity, courage, energy, and more in these very trying times.

Join us for a conversation with thought leaders on how to intentionally build possibilities for unlocking these kinds of resources that are so essential to organizational recovery, renewal, and resilience – even when financial and material resources are constrained. Learn about current research, what examples have taught us, and how we can think more creatively about unlocking resources today that will fuel the growth and development of the organizations and communities about which we care so deeply.

Curators

	Jane Dutton Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Emerita Professor of Business Administration and Psychology University of Michigan Jane's bio
	Brianna Barker Caza Associate Professor of Management University of North Carolina at Greensboro Brianna's bio

Presenters

	Modupe Akinola Associate Professor of Management Columbia University Modupe's bio
	Barbara Fredrickson Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Barbara's bio
	Scott Sonenshein Professor of Management Rice University Scott's bio
	Jason Wilburn President & General Manager FOERSTER Instruments, Inc. Jason's bio
	Lynn Perry Wooten President Simmons University Lynn's bio
	Monica Worline Lecturer, Ross School of Business University of Michigan Monica's bio

This virtual panel event is presented by the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management.

The Center for Positive Organizations stands united with other organizations around the world who call for fundamental transformation that eradicates systemic, institutional racism, discrimination, brutality, poverty, and violence. See our full statement here.