University of Waterloo
Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy

Carla Fehr earned her PhD at Duke University and is a faculty member in the Philosophy Department at the University of Waterloo, where she holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy. Carla brings 25 years of diversity work to the table and has received support from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In addition to teaching courses on gender and STEM she has published her research on this topic in academic journals across a variety of disciplines. Dr. Fehr has also mentored women in fields ranging from molecular biology, to physics, to computer science and engineering, and helped numerous organizations develop strategies for improving their culture for women and all employees. She founded Championing Women in STEM to provide career coaching for STEM women and leadership education for teams seeking to improve diversity and the work experiences of their diverse members and has developed outreach programs about gender and STEM reaching people from 20 countries including stakeholders from industry, education, government, and research sectors.

University of Pittsburgh

Lingfei Wu is faculty with the School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh. His primary research interests are in the Science of Team Science and Innovation. He employs advanced research techniques like big data analysis, complexity sciences, and AI to investigate how science and technology can advance through team collaboration. His research has been published in prestigious journals like Nature and PNAS and featured in renowned media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review. Lingfei Wu also advises organizations like Novo Nordisk Fonden and John Templeton Foundation on the use of data science to evaluate teamwork in science. He has received multiple awards for his research and teaching, including the NSF Career Award, Richard King Mellon Award, and Oxford Martin School Fellowship.

George Mason University

Stephen J. Zaccaro, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He has co-authored a wide variety of scholarly articles related to leadership, group dynamics, team performance, work attitudes, and motivation, and he co-edited 6 scholarly volumes on topics as diverse as executive leadership to psychosocial dynamics to cybersecurity. This work crosses disciplines and fields, from Psychology, to Organizational Behavior, to Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and of the American Psychological Association, and currently serves as president of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup). As evidence of the reach of his work, Dr. Zaccaro’s two scholarly volumes, one on Organizational Leadership and one on Multiteam Systems, are listed in the top 500 in organizational research categories on Amazon. His work has been cited over 34,000 times, with an h-index of 67, making Dr. Zaccaro one of the top 1% of scholars in his field. He has directed or co-directed funded research projects in the areas of multiteam systems, team performance, team mental models, leader-team interfaces, leadership training and development, leader adaptability, and executive coaching. He is also active in public service, translating his scholarship to help real world needs. As such, he has worked with executives and managers from private industry as well as from the public sector. Dr. Zaccaro has served on the editorial boards of the top journals in his field, including The Leadership Quarterly and Journal of Business and Psychology.