Kira Schabram, Ph.D.
Affiliated Scholar
Dr. Kira Schabram is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. Her primary topics of inquiry are meaningful and sustainable work: how employees can do good while also doing well. She was inspired to enter academia after a career in animal welfare, where she saw firsthand the physical, psychological, and emotional toll of working to improve the lives of animals.
Many of her studies continue to focus on employees who work with, for, and around animals in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Her award-winning work exploring how organizations can better support such demanding work has been published in her field’s leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Management.
Dr. Schabram is a frequent invited speaker for practitioner audiences across nonprofit, corporate, and public sectors, including some of the world’s largest animal welfare organizations. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC, CNN, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review. Her teaching has earned accolades including being named one of Poets & Quants’ Favorite Business Professors.