Alison Doherty is a professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University, Canada. Her research focuses broadly on the capacity and management of nonprofit and community-based organizations for safe and inclusive sports and physical activity. Her extensive research portfolio has been supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is the leader of the Sport and Social Impact Research Group (SSIRG) at Western, a board member of Canada's Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC), and a member of the Canadian Women & Sport Impact Research Committee. She is a member of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) where she has been honored with the Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Lecture Award and the Dr. Garth Paton Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Orland Hoeber is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Regina (Canada). His primary research interest is at the intersection of interactive information retrieval and information visualization. He has an active research team working on the design, development, and study of visual and interactive software to support exploration, analysis, reasoning, and discovery in the context of digital library search and mobile search. He also does interdisciplinary research on the process of innovation. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). He previously served a two-year term as the associate head (Graduate) in the Department of Computer Science, and he is now serving a five-year term as the head (2023 – 2027).
Dr. Richard Wolfe is the founder of the Sport and Organization Dynamics Institute (sodinstitute.com) He holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University (1971) and a Master’s in Physical Education from the University of Michigan (1983). He completed his Ph.D. studies in Organization Theory at the University of Michigan in 1989. From 2001 to 2007, he served as the director of the Sport Management Masters Program, and was the director of the Centre for Sport Management, at the University of Michigan. He is a past editor for the Journal of Sport Management and has published in journals such as the Journal of Management, Organization Science, Journal of Sport Management, Human Resource Management, the Academy of Management Executive, and the European Sport Management Quarterly. His current work focuses on how best practices in organization dynamics contribute to sports team success. Previously, he used sport as a lens
through which we can learn about various business practices such as innovation, leadership, communication, teamwork, and strategy. He is under contract with Harvard University Press to write a book on big-time college athletics.
