Team

Dr. Brian Matthews

Founder/Facilitator

Brian is a researcher whose work focuses on sustainable human resource management and the role of organizations in contributing to the common good. His research explores how HRM practices can be reframed around values, social justice, and broader societal impact - most notably through his co-authorship of the foundational text Common Good HRM.

Stefanie Neubauer, MSc

Coordinator

Stefanie’s research focuses on Common Good HRM and the role of employee participation and voice in shaping contemporary workplaces. She examines how participatory and inclusive HR practices can foster employee well-being and contribute to socially sustainable organizations.

Bernhard Scharwächter, MSc

Coordinator

Bernhard is a researcher whose research focuses on ecological sustainability and the role of organizations in addressing socio-ecological challenges. His work explores how human resource management and workplace practices can contribute to more sustainable and responsible forms of organizing.

Leonie Pethö-Schramm, MSc

Innovator

Leonie is a researcher in Sustainable Human Resource Management at the Open University of the Netherlands. Her research adopts an integrative perspective on Sustainable HRM, focusing on how it is interpreted and enacted in organizational contexts. Rather than assuming a one-size-fits-all approach, her work examines variation in how Sustainable HRM is understood and how practices are combined into distinct configurations. She further investigates how employees evaluate these configurations, particularly in terms of authenticity and strength, and how these evaluations relate to positive employee outcomes such as job satisfaction. Her research contributes to a more coherent and empirically grounded understanding of Sustainable HRM and its implications for organizations and their stakeholders.

Toby Whittington, MBA

Innovator

Toby is an Award Leader and Senior Lecturer at BPP University, and a Researcher at the University of Bradford. His work focuses on responsible leadership in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), investigating how the integration of AI into strategic decision-making redistributes authority and reshapes ethical accountability. Aligning with Common Good HRM, his work explores how responsible leaders can navigate the risks of "ethical distancing" and transparency gaps to ensure that intelligent technologies foster socially sustainable organisations and deliver value to employees, communities, and society at large.

Ludger Voigt, MA

Innovator

Ludger is a researcher at the Institute of Management at TU Braunschweig and an externally affiliated researcher at the Competence Centre for the Management of Cooperatives at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano. His research focuses on human resource management in cooperatives, the contribution of cooperatives to the SDGs from a multi-stakeholder perspective, and the organizational socialization of newcomers.

Scientific Committee

Prof. Fang Lee Cooke

Monash University (Australia)
Prof. Michael Müller-Camen

Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria)
Prof. Ina Aust

LouRIM at UCLouvain (Belgium)
Prof. Stephen Wood

University of Leicester (UK)
Prof. Fiona Edgar

Otago University (New Zealand)
Prof. Sumyadeb Chowdhury

TBS-Education (France)
Dr. Maria Järlström

University of Vaasa (Finland)
Prof. Nhat Tan Pham

Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
Prof. Judith Semeijn

Open Universiteit (Netherlands)
Prof. Geoffrey Wood

Western University (Canada)
Prof. Stefanos Nachmias

Nottingham Trent University (UK)
Prof. Nadia Kougiannou

Nottingham Trent University (UK)