Alumni Highlight 2016: Lindsey Kotrba and Michele Purdie
Lindsey Kotrba
Lindsey Kotrba is president of Denison Consulting. In her role, she is focused on the continual growth and development of Denison as a world leader in organizational culture and leadership development solutions. She partners with Denison's senior leadership to develop company strategy and is responsible for company operations and for the execution of strategic priorities. She is also an experienced executive coach and enjoys working directly with Denison's client organizations to support their culture transformations.
She has been a part of the Denison organization since 2006 and was the director of research and Development before moving into the president role. As director of R&D, she led a team of Research Consultants whose focus was on: developing innovative client solutions; ensuring the validity of those solutions through conducting research to be published and presented in various outlets, and supporting and leading client engagements from sales through delivery.
She continues to be an active researcher on the topics of leadership, organizational culture and effectiveness with published research appearing in outlets such as The Journal of Business and Psychology, The Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Relations, Sex Roles, and Advances in Global Leadership.
Lindsey received her Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit MI.
Michele Parkhill Purdie
Michele Parkhill graduated from Wayne State University with her Ph.D. in social psychology in 2006. Following her time at Wayne State, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington in the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. In 2009, she moved back to Michigan and is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Oakland University.
During her time in graduate school at Wayne State, Dr. Parkhill studied under Dr. Antonia Abbey. Here, her research focused mostly on examining the influence of acute alcohol intoxication on risky sexual decision-making. Her current primary research interests concern the predictors and consequences of sexual assault perpetration and victimization, with a particular emphasis on substance use and emotion regulation. I have established a strong program of research that focuses on both survey and experimental methodologies in examining how alcohol influences past sexual assault perpetration and the likelihood of engaging in sexual assault perpetration in the future.
Dr. Parkhill currently serves as the co-chair of the subcommittee on campus sexual assault through APA Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women. She is also a co-founder of the Violence and Abuse Resource Consortium on Oakland University's campus. The website serves as a clearinghouse for university, local, state, and national anti-violence information.