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Dr Beth Adele is the Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communications at Oklahoma City University, where she earned the 2021 award for Distinguish Innovation in Teaching. Formerly, Adele was the Acting Chairperson and Assistant to the Dean at Cameron University’s School of Business in Oklahoma. She also served as the Director of Career Services and Instructor of Marketing at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). Adele earned her PhD in Human Resources Development at The University of Texas at Tyler and holds a Bachelor of Music degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from UCO.

Dr Andrea D. Ellinger is a Professor Emerita of Human Resource Development in the Soules College of Business at The University of Texas at Tyler. She has received several teaching, research and service awards during her career, including The Outstanding HRD Scholar Award for 2012 from The Academy of Human Resource Development. She is a former editor of Human Resource Development Quarterly. Andrea has an extensive publishing record and has presented her research regionally, nationally, and internationally. Her research interests include informal learning, organizational learning and learning organizations, managerial coaching and mentoring, employee engagement and organizational change and development.

Dr Rochell R. McWhorter is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Development in the Soules College of Business at The University of Texas at Tyler. She received her PhD degree in Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University, and she currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Advances in Developing Human Resource Development journal and is a Campus Faculty Liaison for service-learning at UT-Tyler. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters and her publications include topics such as Virtual Human Resource Development (VHRD), qualitative case study methodology, virtual scenario planning, eService-Learning and real-time group meetings (RTGMs).

Dr Toby M. Egan, a tenured Professor in the Schools of Business and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, has designed and deployed innovative leadership, entrepreneurship, and organization development programs in the USA and internationally. He was a Vice President in the Professional Development Group/Korn Ferry International, a global organizational consulting firm. His cross-sector clients include US Fortune 500 and multinational firms. He is Coauthor of three Human Resource Development Quarterly “best journal article awards,” was awarded best article in Review of Public Personnel Administration journal and received the Best Research Article Award by the World Institute for Action Learning.