Tom Hogan, SHRM-SCP, GPHR, SPHR

Professor of Practice in Human Resource Management, Penn State University

Dr. Hogan is a scholar-practitioner, strategic adviser, executive leadership coach, and a higher education thought leader in the Ed Tech sector. He is an internationally recognized subject matter expert on business ethics, diversity, equity, inclusion, and civil discourse in the workplace. Dr. Hogan is a Professor of Practice in Human Resource Management at the Pennsylvania State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in-residence and on-line. His signature class is Ethics in the Workplace. His research interests include Global Leadership Development, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Ethical and Socially Responsible AI. In August 2020, he was appointed to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Blue Ribbon Commission on Racial Equity. Dr. Hogan currently represents Penn State University as a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). In this role, he is involved in developing and representing the U.S. position on global HR standards to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In December 2016, he was appointed and continues to serve on the ISO Work Group responsible for developing a global HR standard on diversity and inclusion. In November 2016, he was appointed and continues to serve on the SHRM Diversity and Inclusion Special Expertise Panel. Dr. Hogan also served on the Penn State University President’s Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity from 2015 – 2018. He was elected Co-Chair for Academic Year 2017-18. He has been appointed to serve as Diversity and Inclusion Director and voting board member of the Pennsylvania SHRM Council for a two-year term beginning January 2020.Dr. Hogan has over 30 years of experience as a practitioner and has served in leadership positions in higher education and the corporate sector. Prior to joining the Penn State University School of Labor and Employment Relations, he held the position of Interim Associate Provost, Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). Prior to working for UMGC, he spent 23 years with AT&T in a variety of assignments including sales, sales support, business development, marketing, and human resources. These assignments involved leading teams, operational and P&L responsibility. In his last assignment at AT&T, Dr. Hogan served as Director of Strategic Talent Acquisition and Retention, Workforce Diversity and EEO/AA. This real-world grounding underpins his research and anchors his classroom teaching with the next generation of students and leaders.