Tim Vogus, PhD

Tim Vogus is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management, Faculty Director of the Leadership Development Program at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and Deputy Director, Business Innovations for the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in leading autism, health care, industrial relations and management journals. His first stream of research specifies how to create and sustain highly reliable (i.e., nearly error-free) performance by strengthening safety culture and habituating mindful organizing – a set of behaviors by which collectives detect and correct errors and unexpected events. His second stream of research focuses on creating and sustaining workplace cultures that are more supportive and inclusive of neurodiversity as well as technologies that can help employers rethink existing practices inimical to neurodiversity (e.g., job interviews, feedback and performance reviews). The key to this is recognizing in theory and practice the centrality of the double empathy problem and his research also focuses on studying how to create cultures as well as developing technologies and studying workplace practices and interventions that can bridge it.

Tim received his PhD in Management and Organizations from the University of Michigan. He was named one of the 50 most influential business professors of 2013 and Top 40 Business School Professors under 40 by PoetsandQuants.com in 2011. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Health Care Management Division from the Academy of Management in 2019. He serves as an Associate Editor of Health Care Management Review and previously served as Division Chair for the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management. He is also a founding and continuing member of the Blue-Ribbon Panel that developed the Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Grade and has served on National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committees on strengthening safety culture in the offshore oil and gas industry and the future of aviation safety.