Prof. Laurie Lewis The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Dr. Lewis is a professor of Communication at the University of Texas San Antonio where she also serves as Director for the Center for Dialogue & Deliberation. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has served on faculty at the Pennsylvania State University, the... read moreUniversity of Texas at Austin, and Rutgers University. Her scholarly work investigates listening, organizational change processes, volunteering and nonprofits, effective organizational collaboration, stakeholder engagement, input solicitation, and participative processes.

She is author of award-winning books Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication and The Power of Strategic Listening in Contemporary Organizations. She served as co-editor for International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication, and two volumes of Volunteering and Communication. She is also author of numerous academic publications in Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Business Communication, Communication Monographs, and the Journal of Applied Communication among others. She has authored numerous book chapters including in The Handbook of Organizational Communication, Handbook of Nonprofit Communication, Handbook of Strategic Communication, Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation, Handbook of Applied Communication Research, and the New Handbook of Organizational Communication.

She has served on the executive board for the National Communication Association and also has served as Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Success at UTSA, as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Rutgers University, as Chair of the Department of Communication at Rutgers University, and as Fellow in the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers.