Business & Public Management

Education and Professional Credentials

• Ph.D., Management with focus on leadership and culture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2010
• Master of Online Teaching Certification, Illinois University Online, 2005
• M.B.A., University of North Florida, 2001
• B.S., Liberal Arts with Economics minor, Excelsior College, 1996

Area of Expertise

• Leadership
• Extreme context

Relevant Professional/Applied Experience

• Consultant, Booz-Allen-Hamilton
• Small business owner
• United States Navy, Ret.

Research Programs/Grants/Interests

• US Expat veterans and their motivations to expatriate and repatriate 

Recent Publications/Journals/Books (since 2015)

• Capitano, J., Fisher, K. L., & Bozeman, J. (2020). Butterfly Film Festival: Teaching Transformational Leadership. Management Teaching Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/2379298120943203
• Sue-Chan, C. and Fisher, K. (2018). Take-Off or Crash? CPO Smith and NAS Ionia Flightline. The CASE Journal, Vol. 14, Issue: 1, pp. 6-15.
• McNulty, Y, Vance, C.M., & Fisher, K. (2017). Beyond corporate expatriation – global mobility in the sports, religious, education and non-profit sectors.  Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, Vol. 5 Issue: 2, pp.110-122.
• Fisher, K. (2017). Military Expatriates. Y. McNulty & J. Selmer (Eds). In Yvonne McNulty and Jan Selmer (eds.), Research Handbook of Expatriates, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Campbell, C., Egan, C., Shollen, L.S., Longman, K.A., Fisher, K., Fox Kirk, W., & Nielson, B.G. (2017) A capacious model of leadership identity construction, in (Julia Storberg-Walker and Paige Haber-Curran Eds.) Theorizing Women & Leadership: New Insights & Contributions from Multiple Perspectives, Information Age Publishing, pp.121-140.
• McNulty, Y., K. Fisher, L. Hicks and T. Kane (2016), Military expatriates: US veterans living abroad, in L. Hicks, E. Weiss and J. Coll (eds), The Civilian Lives of US Veterans: Issues and Identities, Santa Barbara, CA, Praeger, 305-338.
• Clever, M. and Fisher, K. (2016). Women veterans in The Civilian Lives of U.S Veterans: Issues and Identities (Eds. Hicks, L., E. Weiss, E., and Coll, J.), Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 553-577.
• Fisher, K., Billing, T, and Chhina, H. (2016). Indian military leadership: An exploratory study. International Journal of Leadership, 8(2).
• Fisher, K., Hutchings, K. and Pinto, L. (2015). Pioneers across war zones: The lived acculturation experiences of US female military expatriates. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 49: 265-277.

Professional and Community Engagement

• Faculty Advisor, Women In Business student club
• CBPM representative, University Writing Council and Advisory Board
• Board member, Domestic Violence Center of Chester County

Classes Regularly Taught

• MGT 321 Organization Theory and Behavior
• HRM 601 Effective Leadership
• HRM 607 Diversity and Globalization
• MBA 604 Components of Effective Leadership

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