Introduction to special issue: Learning organization/organizational learning and gender issues Available to Purchase

Patrice M. Buzzanell is Chair and Professor of the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) and has served as the President of ICA, the Council of Communication Associations (CCA) and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG). She became a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (NCA) in 2017. Her research focuses on career, work-life policy, resilience, gender and engineering design in micro–macro contexts. She has published four edited books; 200 journal articles, chapters and encyclopedia entries; and numerous engineering education and other proceedings. She has edited Management Communication Quarterly (MCQ) and forums or special issues for several journals. She has served on 25 editorial boards (17 current) and on advisory boards for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Sage Open and MCQ. Her NSF grants focus on engineering ethics scales and processes, as well as design thinking for the professional formation of engineers. Among her awards and honors, she recently received ICA’s B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence.