Kylie Hershey, Ph.D. Candidate
Kylie Hershey is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Business at the University of Kansas. She specializes in human resource management and organizational behavior, with a focus on identifying and developing high-potential employees, evaluating the effectiveness of high-level leaders, and exploring how gender impacts these phenomena. Kylie is an award winning instructor and a member of the Academy of Management.
Prior to her Ph.D. work, Kylie earned her M.S. in communication from Purdue University and worked as a research and analytics professional. As a research analyst, she led data collection, infrastructure, and analysis efforts, generated reports and insights, and presented findings to a variety of organizations across retail, restaurant, aviation, animal health, healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, food services clients and, more recently, police. Today, she provides research, analytics, communication, and HR consulting to several organizations ranging from small non-profits to Fortune 500 companies.
