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Kathleen Boies, PhD

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Concordia University Research Chair in Leadership Development (Tier 2)

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Biography

Dr. Boies (PhD The University of Western Ontario) holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Leadership Development. Her research focuses on leadership in educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the private industry. Through a variety of methodologies and research contexts, her research aims to understand how to identify and develop effective leadership practices. Her research has been published, among others, in the Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Journal of Personnel Psychology, in addition to book chapters and numerous academic conferences.

Dr. Boies’ leadership research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture. Dr. Boies received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Scholarship (Established Scholar) in 2023, and the Junior Researcher Award at the John Molson School of Business in 2006.

Courses she has taught (PhD, EMBA, MBA, MSc, BComm) include organizational behavior, human resource management, leadership & motivation, and organizational staffing.

Research areas: Leadership, Leadership Development, Organizational Trust, Life Transitions, Careers, Gender and Leadership, Diversity and Leadership

Teaching domains: Organizational Behaviour, Leadership, Human Resource Management

Intellectual contributions (last 10 years)

Peer-reviewed journal articles

GILL, H., VREEKER-WILLIAMSON, E., SON HING, L., CASSIDY, S., BOIES, K. (2024). Effects of Cognition-based and Affect-based Trust Attitudes on Trust Intentions. Journal of Business and Psychology. doi:10.1007/s10869-024-09986-z.

LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., BOIES, K., CLAUSEN, C., FRÉCHETTE, J., MANNING, K., GELSOMINI, C., CYR, G., LAVIGNE, G., GOTTLIEB, B., GOTTLIEB, L. (2024). Evaluation of the effectiveness of a Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program aimed at building leadership capacity: A concurrent mixed-methods study. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 6, 100184. doi:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2024.100184.

LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., BOIES, K., CLAUSEN, C., FRÉCHETTE, J., MANNING, K., GELSOMINI, C., CYR, G., LAVIGNE, G., GOTTLIEB, B., GOTTLIEB, L. (2024). Nursing leaders’ perceptions of the impact of the Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program three months post training. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 6, 100190. doi:10.1016/j.ijnsa.2024.100190.

BARON, L., BOIES, K. (2023). Workplace coaching to develop leadership flexibility: The impact of after-event review. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 44 (3), 317-329. doi:10.1108/LODJ-06-2022-0263.

ROBINSON, M., BOIES, K. (2021). On the quest for quality self-report data: HEXACO and indicators of careless responding.. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportement, 53 (3), 377-380. doi:10.1037/cbs0000251.

AYOOBZADEH, M., BOIES, K. (2020). From mentors to leaders: Leader development outcomes for mentors. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 35 (6), 497-511. doi:10.1108/JMP-10-2019-0591.

AYOOBZADEH, M., BOIES, K. (2020). How mentoring improves the leadership skills of those doing the mentoring. The Conversation, Oct. 18, 2020.

BOIES, K., FISET, J. (2019). I do as I think: Exploring the alignment of principal cognitions and behaviors and its effects on teacher outcomes. Educational Administration Quarterly, 55 (2), 225-252. doi:10.1177/0013161X18785869.

FISET, J., BOIES, K. (2019). Positively vivid visions: Making followers feel capable and happy. Human Relations, 72 (10), 1651-1670. doi:10.1177/0018726718810105.

BOIES, K., FISET, J. (2018). Leadership and communication as antecedents of shared mental models emergence. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 31 (3), 293-316. doi:10.1002/piq.21267.

FISET, J., BOIES, K. (2018). Seeing the unseen: Ostracism interventionary behaviour and its impact on employees. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27 (4), 403-417. doi:10.1080/1359432X.2018.1462159.

ZHANG, L., BOIES, K. (2018). Corporate university: A systems thinking situating senior leader assessment and development in context to enhance organizational viability. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science & Practice, 11 (4), 669-676. doi:10.1017/iop.2018.129.

ROBINSON, M., BOIES, K. (2016). Different ways to get the job done: Comparing the effects of intellectual stimulation and contingent reward leadership on task-related outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 46 (6), 336-353. doi:10.1111/jasp.12367.

Conference presentations

HECHT, T., BOIES, K., ELEY, E. (2024). Who engages in leadership development activities? A three-wave study examining career-related and family-related factors. Work-Family Conference Network, Montréal, QC.

LEDUC, J. G., BOIES, K. (2024). The primacy of why: How leader vision orients meaning and prevents burnout. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

AYOOBZADEH, M., BOIES, K., COULOMBE, P. (2023). The interaction between mentor motivation and protégé proactiveness in predicting high-quality mentoring. University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD) Conference, Dublin.

BOIES, K., CLAUSEN, C., FRÉCHETTE, J., MANNING, K., LAVIGNE, G., CYR, G., GOTTLIEB, L., LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M. (2023). Évaluation de l’efficacité d’un programme de formation en leadership en soins infirmiers et en soins de santé fondés sur les forces (SBNH-L). Association canadienne française pour l’avancement du savoir (ACFAS), Montreal, QC.

LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., BOIES, K., CLAUSEN, C., MANNING, K., FRÉCHETTE, J., GOTTLIEB, L. (2023). Strength-based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership (SBNH) training program to improve leadership capacity among nurses managers. International Congress of Nursing, Montreal, QC.

LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., BOIES, K., CLAUSEN, C., FRÉCHETTE, J., MANNING, K., MASTROBERARDINO, M. (2022). L’impact d’une formation en leadership auprès des gestionnaires infirmiers en contexte de pandémie. 8e congrès mondial du Secrétariat international des infirmières et infirmiers de l'espace francophone, Ottawa, ON.

MASTROBERARDINO, M., BOIES, K., FRÉCHETTE, J., LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., CLAUSEN, C., MANNING, K., GOTTLIEB, L. (2022). Strengths-based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership: An approach for the future of healthcare. International Leadership Association Healthcare Leadership Conference, Virtual.

FRÉCHETTE, J., BOIES, K., LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., CLAUSEN, C., MANNING, K., GOTTLIEB, L. (2021). Validation of the Strengths-based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership (SBNH-L) Scale. International Council of Nurses Congress, Virtual.

HECHT, T., ELEY, E., BOIES, K. (2021). Exploring the intersection of transitions to managerial and parenting roles. Work and Family Research Network, Virtual.

RAHIMI, S., BOIES, K., MANGEN, C., DYER, L. M. (2021). Does industry gender composition influence CEO compensation? Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Virtual.

FRÉCHETTE, J., BOIES, K., LAVOIE-TREMBLAY, M., CLAUSEN, C., GOTTLIEB, L. (2020). Development of the Strengths-based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership (SBNH-L) Scale. Canadian Health Workforce Virtual Conference, Virtual.

AYOOBZADEH, M., BOIES, K. (2018). Leader development outcomes for mentors. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Toronto, ON.

AYOOBZADEH, M., BOIES, K. (2018). Mentor autonomous motivation and the quality of mentoring relationship. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Auckland.

ROBINSON, M., BOIES, K. (2018). A lexical study of effective followers in two languages. Eastern Academy of Management, Providence, RI.

ROBINSON, M., BOIES, K. (2018). On the quest for quality self-report data: Examining the relationship between the HEXACO model of personality and both objective and self-report indicators of careless responding. International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), Montreal, QC.

AYOOBZADEH, M., BOIES, K. (2017). The impact of mentor motivation on the quality of mentoring relationship: A field study. 10th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network, Nijimegen.

BOIES, K., MARTIN, F., AYOOBZADEH, M., PENG, Y., BRIAND, M. (2017). Using an instructional design framework to assess the leadership needs of PhD students. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Montreal, QC.

FISET, J., BOIES, K. (2017). Positively vivid visions: The roles of vision emotional expressivity and follower well-being on group success. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Montreal, QC.

GROGAN, A., BOIES, K. (2017). The Influence of CEO personality on engagement in corporate social responsibility: The mediating influence of servant leadership. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Montreal, QC.

Research funding (last 10 years)

External research funding

2023 - 2025: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Tracy Hecht)
Business Schools Association of Canada, Canada
2023 - 2025: Principal Investigator (with C. Clausen and Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada
2014 - 2023: Principal investigator, (with Tracy Hecht)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada
2018 - 2022: Co-applicant, joint initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Canadian Institute of Health Research: Healthy and Productive Work Initiative
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada
2015 - 2016: Collaborator, Entente Canada-Québec relative à l’enseignement dans la langue de la minorité et à l’enseignement des langues secondes (PI : Frederica Martin)
Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur du Québec, Canada
2013 - 2016: Co-investigator, (PI: Louis Baron)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada

Internal research funding

2020 - 2021: SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) Explore
Concordia University, Canada
2016 - 2017: Individual Seed grant
Concordia University, Canada

Internal funding for student research

2020 - 2022: Horizon post-doctoral fellowship program
School of Graduate Studies, Canada
2016 - 2017: Mostafa Ayoobzadeh’s PhD dissertation research
John Molson School of Business, Canada
2015 - 2016: Sahar Taher’s MSc thesis research
John Molson School of Business, Canada
2015 - 2016: Allan Grogan’s PhD dissertation research
John Molson School of Business, Canada
2015 - 2016: Tracy Rothwell’s MSc thesis research
John Molson School of Business, Canada

Student supervision (last 10 years)

Theses supervised completed

PhD dissertations

2023: Lihui Zhang, Exploring the Strategizing of HRM Strategies under HR-Line Manager Partnership: A Stewardship Perspective

2018: Allan Grogan, The Influence of CEO Personality on Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mediating Influence of Servant Leadership

2018: Mostafa Ayoobzadeh, Leader Development Outcomes of Relational Mentoring for Mentors

MSc theses

2022: Caroline Task, Women’s Leadership in the Sports Industry

2022: Meghan Mastroberardino, Strengths-based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership: An Approach for the Future of Healthcare

2022: James Thompson, Evaluating Error Management’s Impact on Job Anxiety, Psychosomatic Health, and Burnout

2021: Yivou Guo, Are We Under the Influence of What We See? The Power of Body Tattoo in a Job Interview

2020: Sarah Rahimi, Does Industry Gender Composition Influence CEO Compensation?

2018: Sahar Taher, Favourable Narcissistic Traits in CEOs across Cultures

2017: Tracy Rothwell, Is There a Time and Place for Transformational Leadership? The Daily Impact of Leader Behaviors on Follower Task Performance

Theses committee membership

PhD dissertations

2020: Sarah Flescher, Internal external examiner

2016: Tony Bongiorno, Supervisory committee member

2016: Maria Carolina Saffie Robertson, Supervisory committee member

2016: Ladan Mohebbinia, External Examiner

MSc theses

2021: Rebecca Vineberg, The Digital Age: Exploring Age and Technology amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020: Sam Sinz, The Role of Informal Social Interactions in Predicting Team Cohesion and Performance

2018: Lin Zhu, Waiting to Take the First Step? Procrastination Behaviors in the Role Transition from Worker to Manager

2017: Ashley Flesch, A study of teamwork among business undergraduate students

2016: Elvin Mustafayev, The impacts of work self-efficacy and person-organization fit on employee withdrawal behaviours and job embeddedness under the pay for performance system: An empirical study

Teaching experience (last 5 years)

John Molson School of Business

Undergraduate

2025 - 2026: COMM229 Managing People in Organizations

Graduate

2025 - 2026: MSCA656 Individual and Group Behaviour in Organizations
2024 - 2025: MSCA656 Individual and Group Behaviour in Organizations
2024: MSCA646 Seminar in Leadership
2022 - 2023: MSCA658 Advanced Topics in Organizational Behaviour

Honours, awards, prizes, and distinctions (last 10 years)

Career

2023: Dean’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship (Established Scholars)
John Molson School of Business, Canada
2015 - 2016: Provost's Fellow in Graduate Student Leadership
Concordia University, Canada

Research

2021: Journal of Managerial Psychology Literati Award Winner, Emerald Publishing,
Emerald Literati Network
2018: Best paper award, Leadership track
Eastern Academy of Management
2016 - 2017: Nominated for a Graduate mentoring award
Concordia University, Canada

Teaching

2015: Faculty affiliate to the School of Graduate Studies
Concordia University, Canada

Work experience

John Molson School of Business

Since 2022: Concordia University Research Chair in Leadership Development (Tier 1)

Since 2016: Professor, Department of Management

Since 2008: Associate Professor, Department of Management

2017 - 2023: Associate Dean, Research and Research Programs

2012 - 2022: Concordia University Research Chair in Leadership Development (Tier 2)

2019: Interim Program Director, MSc and MSCM Programs

2017 - 2019: Graduate Program Director, PhD in Business Administration

2003 - 2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Management

External

Academic

2015: Faculty Affiliate to the School of Graduate Studies
School of Graduate Studies, Canada
2002 - 2003: Part-Time Lecturer
The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Media activities (Last 4 years)

2024 : Featured article
John Molson Perspectives 2023 : Press citation
Concordia University Magazine

Education

Degrees

2003: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The University of Western Ontario, Canada
1999: Master of Arts (MA) in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The University of Western Ontario, Canada
1997: Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology
Université de Montréal, Canada
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