Ryan O. Miller

I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Organizational Behavior and the Head of Research at the University of Zurich’s Center for Leadership in the Future of Work (CLFW). My research examines how leadership is evolving in the contemporary workplace, with a particular focus on leader communality. I study topics such as why leaders choose to disclose personal flaws, how gender, seniority, and culture shape leadership behaviors, and how these dynamics influence followership, leader development, and organizations more broadly. My research has appeared in The Journal of Business Ethics, The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, and Personnel Assessment and Decisions, among other outlets.

Within my doctoral dissertation, I interviewed 43 women hospital CEOs and 10 board chairs involved in their appointments to examine how communal leadership behavior shapes women's upward career mobility. This work also explores how institutional factors create environments in which communal leadership is especially effective, and examines the interplay between individual behavior and institutional context. I am currently incorporating feedback from paper development workshops, including one put on by Organization Science, and anticipate submission in Q4 2026.