Researcher of Organitions, Work, and People
My Research in the Spotlight
I am the RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and a Professor at Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business in Montreal, Canada. During the fall of 2024, I held the Gender Chair at France’s CNRS.
My research focuses on organizations, people and work. I am concerned about how organizations have implications for how we experience and do our work, including how organizations relate to inequalities, especially gender inequalities. I am currently exploring how organizations contribute to upholding and disrupting gender inequalities
My studies have been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Human Relations.
Jun 2025 My latest article in La Conversation
In “Les hommes ont encore des réticences à utiliser pleinement leurs congés parentaux. Voici pourquoi,” I discuss four reasons why men remain reluctant to take paternity and parental leaves: (1) the expectation that they are available to work, (2) their employers’ hesitance towards them taking a leave, (3) them seeing leaves as a vacation rather than a period to do care work, and (4) the financial penalties of leaves.
Mar 2025 Speaker at panel on Well-being at Work
I participated in a panel on well-being at work, organized by Concordia University’s Women Who Lead Alumni Network, discussing burnout and its complex relationships to organizations, gender inequalities and women’s experiences.
Dec 2024 Article in The Conversation
In “Remote work is a game-changer for addressing burnout in workers,” I draw on research, including from Statistics Canada, to explain how remote work can help address burnout, which continues to afflict employees.
Nov 2024 Guest at CBC News
I spoke with Shawn Apel at CBC about paternity leaves in Québec and Canada, and how men taking paternity leaves pave the way to make it easier for other men in their workplace to do the same
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Sep 2023 My most-read article in The Conversation
“Five ways to deal with burnout” has been viewed more than 39,000 times. In this essay, I discuss how we can get out of burnout, emphasizing how burnout is fundamentally a symptom of a problematic organization rather than an issue that individuals are to blame for.
Apr 2022 New funding
I am elated to announce that I received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for research on gender inequalities in organizations!
In April 2022, SSHRC has awarded an Insight Grant of $139,918 to the research program “Disruptive Dames? The process of disruption underlying women’s transition into organizational leadership,” which I direct as a principal investigator. The research program explores the process underlying the disruption of gender inequalities in the leadership of for-profit organizations in Canada.
The research team for this program includes my colleagues at Concordia University, Professors Joel Bothello and Anne-Marie Croteau.
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