Dr. Allison (Allie) Gabriel is the Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at Purdue University’s Mitch Daniels School of Business. She also serves as the Director of the Center for Working Well, and is the Senior Editor for micro-research submissions at Journal of Management. Previously, she served as an Associate Editor at Journal of Applied Psychology (2020-2026), and a Guest Editor at Journal of Organizational Behavior (2024-2026) and Work & Occupations (2016-2020).

Broadly, Dr. Gabriel aims to understand how employees thrive and promote their well-being at work and home. To tackle this general aim, she studies emotions and emotion regulation in the workplace, recovery, motivation, interpersonal stressors/relationships, and experiences unique to women at work—specifically as they pertain to women’s health and motherhood.

Dr. Gabriel has published 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, including publications in premier outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Organizational Research Methods, and Personnel Psychology. She has also published several book chapters, and written for Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Her research has received popular press attention from outlets such as CNBC, CNN, Fast Company, Forbes, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Gabriel has been the recipient of five early- to mid-career awards, including the 2021 AOM Organizational Behavior Division Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, the 2021 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions-Science Award, the 2020 AOM Human Resources Division Early Career Award, the 2019 AOM Sage Publications/Research Methods Division/ Lawrence R. James Early Career Achievement Award, and the 2018 Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar Award. Her research on women’s health received the 2024 Responsible Research in Management Distinguished Winner Award, the 2022 SIOP William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, the 2021 AOM Organizational Behavior Division Outstanding Publication in OB Award, and the 2021 AOM Human Resources Division Scholarly Achievement Award. She was also named a SIOP Fellow in 2023, an APA Fellow in 2025, and was selected by Poets & Quants in 2018 as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professor. Recently, she (alongside Kate Zipay) was added to the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2026, making her a part of a cohort of 30 up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas will make an important impact on management thinking in the future.

Lastly, Dr. Gabriel cares deeply about the practical impact of her work. From 2024-2025, she served as a Committee Member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on a commission to support breastfeeding initiatives in the United States. Dr. Gabriel was also a speaker at the 2022 Wharton Future of Work Conference, and has given keynote talks and fireside chats for the National Institute of Health, BetterUp, Procter & Gamble, Knoetic, Rolls Royce, Eaton, the Texas Association of School Administrators, the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, and various stakeholder groups at Purdue University.