Alexandra Dunn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
College of Business
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Alexandra M. Dunn, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Mary Washington and a member of the TI Verbatim Consulting Organizational Development Advisory Council. Alex received her Ph.D. in Organizational Science and master’s in Industrial Organizational Psychology from UNC Charlotte. She has received fellowship awards from the National Science Foundation and P.E.O. International and was recently awarded a Waple Professorship for research from UMW. Dr. Dunn is a SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) and a member of the Fredericksburg SHRM Chapter. She has completed consulting and organizational development work for SHRM, Mary Washington Healthcare, the Volunteer Program Assessment, the Carolina Raptor Center and Academic Affairs at UNC Charlotte. Before coming to UMW, Dr. Dunn worked as a talent assessment specialist at Ingersoll Rand and a part-time HR Business Partner at New York Life Insurance Company.

Dr. Dunn teaches management, organizational behavior and human resources at UMW at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Her research focuses on creating supportive work environments, recruiting, onboarding, high-reliability organizations (e.g., hospital employees, firefighters, police officers) and how to design effective surveys. Her work has been published in numerous academic journals including the Journal of Business and Psychology, Human Relations and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. She also has co-authored articles appearing in The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science, the SAGE Encyclopedia of Industrial Organizational Psychology and The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach. Dr. Dunn’s work has also been quoted in multiple media outlets including Men’s Health, the Charlotte Business Journal and recently on Fredericksburg.com.

Christopher J. Garcia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods
College of Business
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Christopher Garcia, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Mary Washington and a member of the TI Verbatim Consulting Organizational Development Advisory Council. Chris is an expert in optimization and machine learning and his present work largely focuses in two distinct areas: developing algorithms for large-scale planning and scheduling problems in the logistics, supply chain and transportation domains and using machine learning techniques to discover, extract and fuse information from social media and other disparate data sources into a consistent and reliable story. His research has been published in many flagship engineering and operations research journals including IISE Transactions, Engineering Optimization, OR Spectrum, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, and others. He is also a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) and has provided data science consulting for large organizations spanning across multiple industries including defense, transportation, finance, logistics, petroleum and insurance. Chris presently serves as an advisor for several companies and provides guidance on how to incorporate transformative technologies to sustain a competitive advantage.