Julie Gedro is an Associate Professor of Business, Management and Economics with Empire State College / State University of New York. Dr. Gedro served, from 2008-2010, as final Director of the FORUM Central Management Program. FORUM was an innovative Residency program for first level managers, mid-career managers, and entrepreneurs who seek completion of their undergraduate degrees in Business, Management and Economics. Currently, Gedro is the Faculty Chair for the Central New York Center of Empire State College. She is the founding Chair of the ad hoc Committee of the Empire State College Senate on Workplace Civility. Prior to becoming an educator, Dr. Gedro served in Human Resource Management and Development positions of increasing responsibility in the finance, high-tech and telecommunications sectors in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary; an M.B.A. in Information Systems from Kennesaw State University; and a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in Adult Education and Human Resource Development from the University of Georgia. Dr. Gedro is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) by the Society for Human Resource Management. Dr. Gedro researches, writes, publishes and speaks on Civility in the Workplace, LGBT Issues in the Workplace, Social Capital, Mentoring, Business Ethics Pedagogy, and Leadership. She is published in a variety of Adult Education, Human Resource Development, and popular press publications. Dr. Gedro has a "magnificent obsession" with lifelong learning, which inspired her transition into the academy.
LGBT Issues in Organizational Settings
Understanding, Designing, and Teaching LGBT Issues, Exploring diversity in the HRD curriculum (2010)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues represent an emergent sub-topic within the broader framework...
Perspective on Out & Equal Workplace Advocates Building Bridges Model: A Retrospect (with Pat Baillie), New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (2009)
LGBT Career Development, Advances in Developing Human Resources (2009)
The problem and the solution. Although the field of human resource development (HRD) has begun...
Queering the HRD Curriculum: Preparing Students for Success in the Diverse Workforce (with Diane Chapman), Advances in Developing Human Resources (2009)
The problem and the solution. Although human resource development (HRD) programs frequently place value on...
Prepublication Announcement
Prepublication Announcement (2009)
Adult Education in Queer Contexts: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy is divided into 16 chapters beginning...
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Announcement
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Business Ethics Pedagogy
A Contemporary Conspectus of Business Ethics Education: Content and Pedagogy for HRD, Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in the Americas (2008)
In this paper, I would like to offer the suggestion that HRD become an ethics...
Social Capital
Theory and Practice / Practice and Theory
Perspective on Out & Equal Workplace Advocates Building Bridges Model: A Retrospect (with Pat Baillie), New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (2009)
A Personal Narrative of LGBT Identity and Activism, New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development (2009)
Business Sustainability and Workplace Civility
HRD and the Triple Bottom Line: Creating and Sustaining Equitable Practices, 11th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe (2010)
The triple bottom line of economics, environment, and equity has become a ubiquitous conversation in...
Working Papers and Upcoming Research
Lesbian Issues
Presentation: Destabilizing Heteronormative Assumptions of Lesbian Life and Health: Adult Education as a Site of Emancipatory Paradigms, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (2010)
Destabilizing Heteronormative Assumptions of Lesbian Life and Health: Adult Education as a Site of Emancipatory Paradigms, Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (2010)
This theory development paper will locate the identity politics of lesbian single-ness as a resistance...
Lipstick or Golf Clubs? Lesbian Presentations and Representations of Leadership, and the Implications for HRD, Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development Conference in the Americas (2009)
This paper will identify, examine and discuss the unique challenges for lesbians who serve in...
Lesbianism as the Practice of Freedom (2008)
While being a lesbian presents obvious challenges because lesbians face interlocking systems of sexism and...
How lesbians learn to negotiate the heterosexism of corporate America, Human Resource Development International (2004)
The purpose of this study was to understand how lesbians learn to negotiate the heterosexism...
Entrepreneurship
Dogs, Guacamole, Specs, Cars, and a Bar: A Strength-Based, Phenomenological Perspective of Skills Necessary for Successful Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century and a Difficult Economy, Business and Education Leaders Consortium (2010)
This presentation identifies the skills necessary for successful entrepreneurship in the 21st century.