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Michele Rigolizzo
Associate Professor, Management, Feliciano School of Business
- Office:
- Feliciano School of Business
- Email:
- rigolizzom@montclair.edu
- Degrees:
- BA, The College of New Jersey
- EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- DBA, Harvard Business School
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Bio
Dr. Rigolizzo earned a doctorate degree from Harvard Business School in 2017, following a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2010. She researches the ways in which working adults are empowered to learn thorough the challenges they face in their everyday work. She has developed new models and methodologies to study how employees can learn to learn in dynamic business environments. She also brings her professional training background, along with deep expertise in adult learning, to help her students become better professionals and better learners.
Expertise
Organizational Behavior, Human Resources, Adult Learning, Training and Development, Workplace Learning, Learning Behaviors
Research
- Collaboration with Martha Jeong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) on learning from patterns of success and failure
- Collaboration with Vodafone to examine the learning behaviors of 18-24 year-olds who are undergoing a game-based training on enhancing digital skills.
- It takes two: How gender matching shapes coaching success
- Professional Pathway Fit: Development and Validation of managerial coaching fit
- Social Identity (Mis)Fit in Managerial Coaching: A series of experimental studies to evaluate the role of social identity belonging in managerial coaching relationships
- That Educated Quickly: An experiential learning activity to teach the Big Five personality types
Professional Experience
- Project Analyst - Strategy & Analysis, Bristol-Myers Squibb (2000 - 2006)
- Manager - Learning & Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb (2007 - 2009)
- Learning Advisor, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield NJ (2010 - 2011)
- Assistant Professor, Montclair State University (2017 - Present)
- Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) (2013 - Present)
- Research Assistant III, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) (2012 - 2013)
Refereed Published Articles
- M. Rigolizzo, K. Johnson, J. Harvey (2023). Disentangling Empowerment: Considering the Role of Employee Perceptions in Adaptive Selling. Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- M. Rigolizzo (2022). Learning in a hybrid world: New methods for a new Workplace. Journal of Business Strategy
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu, J. Harvey (2022). Leader Humility, Perceived Leader Authenticity and Informal Learning: How Humble Leaders Model Everyday Workplace Learning. Journal of Workplace Learning
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu, A. Cruz (2021). The Influence of Past Situations on Present Behaviors: How School Life Predicts Managerial Learning. Journal of Workplace Learning
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (2021). The Ebb and Flow of Learning Motivation: The Differentiated Impact of the Implicit Theory of Intelligence on Learning Behaviors. Human Resource Development Quarterly
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (2020). Motivating Reflection Habits and Raising Employee Awareness of Learning. Evidence-based HRM
- M. Rigolizzo (2019). Ready and Willing to Learn: Exploring Personal Antecedents to Taking on Learning Challenges. Journal of Workplace Learning
- M. Rigolizzo (2018). The LABS (Learning As Behaviors) Framework for Higher-Order Learning. The Learning Organization
Published Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo, J. Harvey (5s). . It takes two: How gender matching shapes coaching success Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (5s). 2021. Leading Employee Learning Academy of Management Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (5s). 2020. The Ebb and Flow of Learning Motivation Academy of Management Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo (5s). 2019. The Learning Behaviors Measure: A Behavioral Measure of Self-Directed Learning Academy of Management Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo, K. Roloff (5s). 2018. The Role of Learning Orientation in the Process of Learning Academy of Management
Books & Chapters
- M. Rigolizzo, T. Amabile (2015). Entrepreneurial Creativity: The Role of Learning Processes and Work Environment Supports..