Managing the Unexpected Conference

Conference Overview

This conference is intended to build and support the growing community of scholars who study how organizations and their members manage the unexpected – whether that comes in the form of uncertainty, risk, crisis or conflict – in pursuit of high reliability and resilient performance.  For this first year of the conference, we celebrate and honor the retirement of Kathleen Sutcliffe, whose work has been groundbreaking and deeply influential to this field.

To that end, our first gathering will bring together Dr. Sutcliffe’s students, co-authors, colleagues and friends who continue to build and shape the field through their own work around the world. The conference is purposefully designed to be small and invitation-only, with the goal of generating high levels of engagement and interaction, as well as follow-on research and teaching collaborations.

Register for the Conference Here by August 31, 2025

Tentative Agenda

Conference Organizers: Michelle Barton, Suntae Kim, Christopher Myers

Conference Sponsors: Carey Business School and the Center for Innovative Leadership