Current Lab Members

Celia Chui (Principal Investigator)

Celia Chui is an Assistant Professor of Management at HEC Montreal. Prior to joining HEC Montreal, Celia was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and a visiting predoctoral fellow at Northwestern University’s Management and Organization’s Department. She holds a PhD in Economic Sciences with a specialization in Management from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Using experimental and mixed field methods, her research focuses on ethical decision-making and creativity processes in organizational and social settings, in addition to issues relating to prosocial behavior and gender.

Atina Boonchit (Lab Manager)

Atina Boonchit is currently a Clinical Research Coordinator at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a Master’s of Health Science degree in Translational Research from the University of Toronto, where she explored the many innovative ways in which complex scientific information could be translated to create impact in healthcare spaces and industries. While there, she completed a collaborative Capstone project investigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various stakeholders at the Toronto General Hospital, followed by several presentations of the project’s findings that were tailored to different audiences in an effort to further the impact of the study. Believing in the blend of both the humanities and the sciences, and being a strong advocate for incorporating the “A” into “STEM”, she is now pursuing a career as an educator and committed to investigating and applying novel pedagogical strategies to her practice. After obtaining both research and practical experience in healthcare, health industries, and in more traditional educational settings, Atina has interests in practicing and researching effective pedagogy and scientific communication, as well as the multidisciplinary integration of different research fields.

Anna-Maria Broomes

My name is Anna-Maria Broomes. I am a PhD student in Management (Organizational Behaviour) at McGill University and a Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. My broad research interests involve (in)authenticity, inclusion and mental health in the workplace. I am currently working on my dissertation proposal where I seek to create a model of organizational factors that contribute to employee psychological safety. 

Meaghan Girard

Meaghan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Montréal. Having experienced first-hand the disruptive effect of AI in her first career as a translator (where AI proved to be more hype than bite), she is now researching the relationships between values, organizing, and digital technologies. Her (not-so-secret) goal is to understand and explain how humans and organizations can—and do—remain in the drivers’ seat in the context of rapid technological advancements. Never one to stick to the sidelines, Meaghan is highly involved in her PhD community (co-founder of the Montreal Business Schools’ PhD Symposium, solidarity lab, specialization representative), and continues to sit on the board of her professional order (OTTIAQ) to help the profession navigate the changing tides.  

Irina Gioaba

Irina Gioaba is currently an Assistant Professor at Kean University in New Jersey and a former postdoctoral fellow at New York University’s Stern Business School. She holds a PhD in Management with a specialization in Organizational Behavior from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and a master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology, USA. Irina’s research interests broadly revolve around age, gender, their intersection, diversity and inequality in organizations. With the ECGO lab, Irina is exploring issues related to subtle manifestations of discrimination in the workplace.

Miguel Milanez

Alana Pierce

Alana is a PhD candidate at HEC Montréal. Alana’s research interests stem from her 12 years of work and volunteer experience creating and building non- and for-profit organizations. Alana is interested in how entrepreneurial support interfaces with the act of organization creation and her focus is on the interaction and interpersonal communication level with a strong relational and process-based ontology, such as a practice or performative lens. Alana is also interested in investigating entrepreneurial support from a gender and knowledge perspective. She is currently completing the second year of observation-based field research at an entrepreneurship accelerator, tracking closely the meetings between mentors and entrepreneurs and also the activities of the accelerator itself. Alana enjoys travelling with her husband, hiking and dinner parties with friends.

Sangah Bae

Sangah Bae is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior department at Cornell University, researching social influence and motivation. Sangah is interested in studying inter- and intra- personal differences in the perception of motivation and influence, and how these behaviors might be affected by one’s own background (i.e., socio-economic-status). She draws from social psychology and micro organizational behavior research to answer her research questions, and use quantitative experiments. Before joining PhD program, Sangah worked in marketing and was a Sr. Partner, Director of data analytics for a marketing agency.

Eileen Suh

Eileen Suh is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Her broad research interests include diversity, multiple identities, and impression/identity management strategies. She uses lab experiments and computation research methodologies in her research projects. Before starting PhD, she earned a B.A in Psychology and Economics-Statistics, and M.A in Data Science both from Columbia University.

Former Lab Members

Manuelle Cote-Gravel

Manuelle is a recent 2021 MBA graduate of HEC Montréal who is passionate about the environment. She brings with her years of experience working in marketing and sales, and in partnerships in EdTech. Currently, she is a Venture Analyst at the Creative Destruction Lab-Montreal. She will focus her ECGO lab activities on knowledge transfer activities such as collaborating on articles for the popular press and on collaborating on preparing and publishing pedagogical business case studies related to ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability.

Ashley Cole 

Ashley Cole has a Bachelor of Arts Honours Psychology Degree from the University of Guelph. Throughout her undergraduate degree Ashley worked on multiple research projects, including volunteering on a meta-analysis project for correlates of experienced workplace incivility, and completing an Honours Thesis project on perspective-taking as an intervention method for witnessing incivility. Currently, Ashley is pursuing a PhD degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Guelph. In her program, she is interested in continuing to research workplace incivility.