Dr. Allison (Allie) Gabriel is the Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources area of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. She also is the Faculty Director and founder of the Center for Working Well at Purdue, and holds a courtesy appointment with the Industrial-Organizational Psychology group.

She received her B.A. in Psychology with honors and highest distinction from Penn State University in 2008, and her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron in 2013. Her research focuses on emotions, motivation, interpersonal stressors/relationships, and employee well-being (especially women’s health and its intersection with work), and she is particularly interested in understanding these phenomena from a within-person perspective with an emphasis on event-level processes.

Dr. Gabriel’s research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and Journal of Management, among other outlets, and has resulted in numerous presentations at the Academy of Management (AOM), American Psychological Association (APA), and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conferences. Her research has received popular press attention from outlets such as CNBC, CNN, Fast Company, Forbes, Psychology Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, in addition to being featured by Harvard Business Review. For her scholarly achievements, Dr. Gabriel was the recipient of 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 in the workplace has received the AOM/RRBM Responsible Research in Management Award - Distinguished Winner, AOM Organizational Behavior Division Outstanding Publication in OB Award, the AOM Human Resources Division Scholarly Achievement Award, and the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award. She also was recognized in 2018 by Poets & Quants as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business School Professor, and in 2024 received the inaugural BetterUp Center for Purpose and Performance Prize.

Dr. Gabriel is an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Psychology and serves on the editorial review boards for Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Business and Psychology. She also has served as a guest editor at Work & Occupations, and is a guest editor at Journal of Organizational Behavior for the special issue on women’s reproductive health and work. Highlighting her focus on science-to-practice translation, from 2024-2025, she will be serving as a Committee Member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on a commission to support breastfeeding initiatives in the United States.

Outside of academia, you can find her with her husband, her daughters (her first - a true pandemic baby - born March 2020, and her second born February 2025), and their entourage of cats (four cats, to be exact).