Dr. Kelly Manix is a Lecturer of Management in the Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University. She has been teaching at the collegiate level for the past 7 years and recently graduated with her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of South Alabama. She has been presenting and publishing research on leadership, humility, and ethics for the past 2 years and is published in American Business Review, Journal of Individual Differences, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. In 2021, her research won Best Doctoral Student Ethics Paper and Best Doctoral Student Innovative Teaching Paper at the annual Southern Management Association conference. Before her academic career, she held several management roles in the recording industry, food service/retail industries, and ran two small businesses. Her professional experience working in project management, leading teams, and making efficient use of resources as an entrepreneur showed her the value of continuous learning and improvement and having the humility to acknowledge when it is necessary. These experiences inform her research and teaching which heavily focus on the application of humility in life, leadership, and business.  

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Manix, K. G. (2022). Educating Future Researchers with an Eye Toward Intellectual Humility. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 15(1), 135-136.  https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2021.135   ·        

Manix, K. G. (2022). Why and When Do Leaders Express Humility? Leader Expressed Humility as Psycho-Social Signaling. American Business Review, 25(1), 36-49. https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1565&context=americanbusinessreview

Howard, M. C., & Manix, K. G. (2022). Assessing the shared facets of honesty-humility and machiavellianism: Implications for a common conceptual core. Journal of Individual Differences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001/a000384

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Serviss, E., Manix, K. G., & Oglesby, M. (2022, November) Ethical Leadership in a Remote Sales Context: Implications for Salesperson Wellbeing and Performance. [Conference presentation]. Society of Marketing Advances, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.  

Manix, K. G. (2022, October). Is Humility Enough? The Impact of Leader Humility on Follower Moral Disengagement and Unethical Behavior [Conference presentation]. SMA 2022 Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.

Manix, K. G. (2022, February 24). Ready to Adapt: Leader Humility as an Antecedent of Relational Coordination and Organizational Adaptability [Conference presentation]. SBI 2022 Conference, Charleston, SC, United States. https://smallbusinessinstitute.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/SBI2022%20Proceedings%20final.pdf  

Manix, K. G. (2021, November 6). I Get by With a Little Help from My Boss: Leader-Member Exchange as Moderator Between Surface Acting and Moral Disengagement [Conference presentation]. SMA 2021 Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States. https://d1keuthy5s86c8.cloudfront.net/static/ems/upload/files/embed_agenda_sma_202110_mccaf.pdf *Awarded SMA 2021 Best Doctoral Student Paper – Track 5 – Careers/Diversity/Ethics   ·        

Manix, K. G. & Abston, K. (2021, November 6). Using Monroe's Motivated Sequence to Facilitate Engagement and Social Innovation [Conference presentation]. SMA 2021 Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States. https://d1keuthy5s86c8.cloudfront.net/static/ems/upload/files/embed_agenda_sma_202110_mccaf.pdf *Awarded SMA 2021 Best Doctoral Student Paper – Track 8 - Innovative Teaching/Management Education Track  

Manix, K. G. (2021, April 23). It’s a Process: Leader Humility as Psycho-Social Signaling [Conference presentation]. 2021 WAM Conference, Virtual. https://0c3e007d-8c11-40e6-bd86-d327862680bf.filesusr.com/ugd/aaf7f8_6501f64f83824faea0f19893c1fe9f07.pdf  

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