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Kelly Hall

Faculty Member

Kelly Hall

Biography

Dr. Kelly Hall joined the Woodbury School of Business in January ’22. She serves as Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership, Director of the Women’s Business Leadership Initiative, and Lead Faculty of the UVU Executive Education Women’s Leadership Certificate Program. Before joining UVU, she spent ten years on faculty with Stetson University’s School of Business Administration in DeLand, Florida. Her commitment to the highest levels of teaching, leadership development, and community involvement have been widely recognized. In recent years, she has received numerous awards, for example, the Distinguished EMBA Professor Award, the Outstanding Innovator Award, the COVID-19 Innovation Award, and the Provost Faculty Fellow for Engagement.

Dr. Hall has a passion for blending research with course design to create a synergy between scholarship and teaching. Her research focuses on leader decision making, leader and employee development, and positive organizational scholarship. She frequently engages in interdisciplinary research collaborations, and she is an active member of several management organizations, including the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, and Academy of Human Resource Development. She is also a Certified Executive Life Coach.

Before transitioning to academia, Kelly worked in the financial industry. Among other roles, she served as Manager at Raymond James Financial and as a member of the Learning & Development team at Washington Mutual Bank / JP Morgan Chase. Across all her work, she has enthusiastically identified needs in organizations and creatively developed and implemented solutions.

Kelly earned her Doctor of Business Administration from Kennesaw State University, where she was recognized as the 2016 Outstanding Graduate of Coles College of Business.

Education

DBA, Kennesaw State University, 2016

Major: Management

MBA, Stetson University, 2011

Teaching

MGMT 2030

Inclusive Leadership SS, Spring 2024

MGMT 3500

Leadership Theory and Application WE, Spring 2024

Presentations

Hall, Kelly , Schill, Angela , 2023 UWHEN Leadership Conference, "Thriving through high-quality connections", Utah Women in Higher Education Network, Utah. (April, 2023)
Andrade, Maureen (Presenter & Author), Hall, Kelly (Author Only), Schill, Angela (Author Only), Westover, Jonathan (Author Only), Western Academy of Management 2023, "Covid-19 Impacts on the Gender Job Satisfaction Gap", Western Academy of Management, Reno, Nevada. (March, 2023)
Clark, Silvia (Moderator), Hall, Kelly (Author Only), Andrade, Maureen (Panelist), Cunningham, Ruthann (Panelist), Jasperson, Jill (Panelist), Westover, Jonathan (Panelist), Erickson, LynnAnn (Panelist), Western Academy of Management 2023, "The persistent pursuit of gender equality in the workplace_ A panel on the trials women encounter at work and how organizations can help women leaders flourish", Western Academy of Management, Reno, Nevada. (March, 2023)
Berlin, Dustin , Hall, Kelly , Knee, Jeremy , Reyes, Kyle , 2022 UWHEN Leadership Conference, "Navigating new spaces_ Actions for aspiring male allies", Utah Women in Higher Education Network. (April, 2022)
Hall, Kelly R., 2020 Atlantic Marketing Association Conference, "The effects of relational coordination and supervisor support on thriving and job satisfaction_ A survey study among B2B sales professionals in U.S. small businesses.", Virtual. (October, 2020)
Hall, Kelly R., Greene, Juanne , Subramanian, Ram , 2020 North American Case Research Association Conference, "Starbucks Corporation in 2020_ Addressing discrimination in public spaces", Virtual. (October, 2020)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Hall, Kelly , Andrade, Maureen , Westover, Jonathan , Schill, Angela , (2023) "From office to home drivers of gender job satisfaction" (Issue: 1, vol. 23). Journal of Business Diversity.
Hall, Kelly , Gong, Baiyun , Andrade, Maureen , (2023) "Meaningful work linking high-quality relationships and commitment_ A conditional process study with career orientation" (Issue: 0, vol. 0). Journal of Career Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/08948453231182101
Hall, Kelly , Subramanian, Ram , (2023) "The Walt Disney Company and Florida's Don't Say Gay bill" . The Case Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-05-2023-0113
Hall, Kelly , (2023) "Leadership case competitions_ Valuable for women students, valuable for employers, and there’s a new one coming to Utah Valley University" . LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-case-competitions-valuable-women-students-employers
Westover, Jonathan , Hall, Kelly , (2023) "The persistence of the gender wage gap and what to do about it" . LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7028826713992167424
Hall, Kelly R., Subramanian, Ram , Greene, Juanne , Tichenor, Emily , Lawrence, Anne T., Weber, James , Hill, Vanessa D., Wasieleski, David , (2023) "Starbucks Corporation in 2020- Addressing Discrimination Across Organizational Boundaries in Business & Society, 17th edition" (Issue: 17th edition, vol. Business and Society_ Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy). McGraw-Hill.

Awards

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Utah Valley University/Advance HE - August 8, 2023

Academic Innovation Award for Innovative External Collaboration

Office of Academic Affairs, Utah Valley University - February, 2023

COVID-19 Innovation Award

Board of Trustees, Stetson University - June, 2021

Outstanding Innovator Award

School of Business Administration, Stetson University - April, 2021

Distinguished Executive MBA Professor Award

School of Business Administration, Stetson University - April, 2019

Provost Faculty Fellow for Engagement

Office of Academic Affairs, Stetson University - January, 2019