Speaker: Dr. Wendy Carroll, Associate Professor Management, Saint Mary’s University

ABSTRACT:

Dr. Wendy Carroll invites us to reimagine how research can more effectively influence organizational practice. With organizations increasingly relying on people data, HR analytics offers a powerful—but often underused—pathway for researchers to connect their work with real-world impact.

Drawing on her work in Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Practice, Dr. Carroll presents an inter-organizational model emphasizing collaboration among researchers, synthesizers, knowledge mobilizers, and HR analytics professionals. She offers three strategies to close the research-practice gap: building synthesis capacity, engaging in knowledge mobilization, and partnering with organizations through HR analytics.

In this keynote, Dr. Carroll is especially interested in exploring strategies for advancing diversity and inclusion through evidence-based change. She offers a practical roadmap for co-creating knowledge, conducting responsive research, and making scholarship accessible and actionable —especially in today’s complex, data-rich workplaces.

BIO:

Dr. Wendy Carroll is an educator in Human Resources with wide-ranging experience bridging academic and practitioner worlds.  Her research focuses on the future of work, employee silence, and the use of HR analytics to inform evidence-based decision-making. Her work, Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Practice, explores how researchers can partner more effectively with organizations to drive meaningful change. Dr. Carroll leads St. Mary’s EDBA programme and contributes her expertise to creating alternative credentials and developing inclusive business scholarship.  She is known for making research accessible, actionable, and impactful.