2026 Bouchet Society Lecture: Building Access, Strengthening Evidence, and Advancing Impact for Research and Practice

Speaker: Ozias A. Moore, Ph.D. ’17, Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Lehigh University Session Summary: What shapes access to the relationships, resources, fair evaluation, and learning opportunities that individuals need to succeed in organizations — and what stands in the way? In this Bouchet lecture, Dr. Ozias A. Moore addresses these questions through findings from his multi-method research program, organized around four central themes: access to supportive relationships and resources, access to fair evaluation, access to learning, and access to trustworthy knowledge. Drawing from diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs, including field studies, experiments, and archival and longitudinal research, he examines how people rebuild professional networks and performance after organizational disruption, how bias enters hiring and career decisions, how team structure shapes the way people learn from one another, and how AI literacy influences trust when collaborating with generative AI. He also addresses why transparency in how we conduct research matters for building trustworthy knowledge. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that the conditions shaping access to relationships, evaluation, and learning are interconnected, with implications for both organizational practice and how we advance research. The lecture will foster insights and meaningful discussion to guide future directions, in ways that reflect the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society’s qualities of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy.