Rick Reed is a fifth-year doctoral candidate, ABD, in Organizational Behavior at Leeds School of Business. He received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Oregon, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Colorado. Outside of academia, Rick has worked in management capacities in retail banking and the oil & gas industry. Prior to joining the PhD program at Leeds, Rick was invited to join the faculty in 2014, where he was chosen to receive the RAP Instructor of the Year Award in 2016 within the business school, and the campus-wide Marinus Smith Teaching Award in 2018. His course topics ranged from teaching the Business Applications of Corporate Social Responsibility (BCOR3010), to exploring Business Ethics in an interdisciplinary, team-based semester course (BASE2100), to providing first-year business students context in the World of Business (BCOR1015). Rick has also had the pleasure to teach the EXCEL Scholars in the Summer Bridge Program, a three-week intensive workshop for first-generation students at the University of Colorado, preparing them for entering the Leeds School of Business. He has assisted in multiple MBA courses and looks forward to working with more graduate students in the future. Rick’s research interests include exploring the learning process across multiple contexts (e.g., online learning, leadership coaching, workplace training etc.), psychological entitlement in the workplace as well as in the classroom, and the antecedents of well-being.