Webinar 1 – january 19, 2022

Presented by
Dr Kimberly Deatherage Mominah

As we transition out of the Covid-19 world to a new normal, we are all faced with another readjustment in juggling our personal, family, career, and research demands. As such, the aim of this hands-on, interactive MENAGEN professional development webinar was to help us find ways to work together, and support each other to become better jugglers in 2022 and beyond!

Dr Kimberly Deatherage-Mominah is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC). Her research interest includes the influence of culture on behavior, inclusion and diversity, engagement, and factors that influence continued personal development across the lifespan. She has worked in higher education and counseling in the United States and Saudi Arabia for more than 20 years, and has engaged in public speaking related to personal and professional development for TedX, higher education institutions, and intermediate educational institutions during her career. She joined MBSC in 2019 as a faculty member and college counselor.

Webinar 2 – february 16, 2022

Presented by
Dr Angelique Slade Shantz & Kylie Heales

In this presentation, Dr Angelique Slade Shantz and Kylie Heales explained the usefulness and importance of Abductive Experimentation as an impactful methodology for contributing to solving pressing social and business problems. They explained the key steps in the process, using research with Tunisian women entrepreneurs to demonstrate its application. The presentation finished with a critical reflection on the use of the method and its future application.

Angelique Slade Shantz

Angelique Slade Shantz is an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests broadly focus on the role of business in addressing grand challenges, predominantly occurring at the intersection of entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation. Her current research explores institutional, cultural, and cognitive barriers to entrepreneurial activities and workplace motivation in contexts of resource scarcity. Her methodological approach relies heavily on experimental design (in both a lab and field setting) complemented by qualitative data, often in partnership with organizations.

Kylie Heales

Kylie Heales is a PhD Candidate at the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management Department, Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is also a 2021 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. Kylie completed her MBA at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where she interned at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her research explores the institutional reasons why entrepreneurs in contexts of poverty struggle to scale.

Webinar 3 – March 23, 2022

In this presentation Professor Hayfaa Tlaiss and Dr Doaa Althalathini share their experience as mentor and mentee on the MPP and present the paper they worked together on during the program. Submitted to the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Journal, this paper focused on the interplay between institutional contexts, digital technologies, and women’s digital entrepreneurship in Palestine. Through in-depth online interviews with Palestinian women entrepreneurs, the study argues that while digital tools enable business launch, unsupportive institutional environments confine women to home-based, feminine enterprises, resulting in added challenges, physical health problem, and lack of psychological well-being. By challenging the notion that digital entrepreneurship universally emancipates women, the research highlights the context-specific nature of emancipation within the intricate web of conflict-influenced institutional factors.

Dr Doaa Althalathini is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Enterprise at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She holds a PhD in Business and Management from the University of Plymouth, UK. Her research focuses on resilience, entrepreneurship, and gender in the contexts of violent conflict. She has extensive work experience with local and international NGOs in programmes aimed at reducing poverty, empowering women and enhancing economic development through entrepreneurship in Palestine. Her scholarly work has been published in several journals including Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Educational Management, and Asia Pacific Journal of Business Administration.

Professor Hayfaa Tlaiss is a Visiting Professor of Management at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KUPM). Professor Tlaiss has is a co-founder of MENAGEN. Her scholarly work has been published in Financial Times Top 50 journals and other top-tier journals including Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, International Small Business Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, and International Journal of Human Resources Management.

Webinar 4 – october 5, 2022

Presented by
Dr Kimberly Deatherage Mominah

As the academic year is underway and many of us are well into the swing of academic life, our ‘to do’ lists may already be longer than the paper we are tracking them on! Which do we prioritize? Which can we remove? And can we simply say no so the items are not added to the ‘to do’ list? The aim of this webinar was to find ways to work together, and support each other to become better at saying no.

This session was led by Dr Kimberly Deatherage Mominah of MBSC and was co-facilitated by MENAGEN co-chairs, Professor Haya Al-Dajani, Professor Hayfaa Tlaiss and Dr Sara Alshareef.

Dr Kimberly Deatherage-Mominah is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC). Her research interest includes the influence of culture on behavior, inclusion and diversity, engagement, and factors that influence continued personal development across the lifespan. She has worked in higher education and counseling in the United States and Saudi Arabia for more than 20 years, and has engaged in public speaking related to personal and professional development for TedX, higher education institutions, and intermediate educational institutions during her career. She joined MBSC in 2019 as a faculty member and college counselor.

Webinar 5 – november 30, 2022

In this presentation, Professor Dilani addressed the messy ‘realities’ and obstacles associated with quantitative data and its collection, tips on publishing quantitative research, as well as cutting-edge methods and current issues/challenges such as publishing using secondary datasets, experimental designs and the demand for longitudinal studies.

Dr. Sally addressed how women-owned microenterprises cope with disruption caused by extreme events in the absence of institutional support. She described how women owners use higher-order capabilities to mobilize their resources and capacities in a way that blurs the lines between individual, family, and organizational resilience. The study showcases the diverse facets of resilience and highlights the entrepreneurial resilience and developing capabilities in micro-enterprises.

Professor Dilani Jayawarna is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS) in the United Kingdom, Professor Jayawarna is currently working on a number of research projects, including entrepreneurial teams and team based resource dynamics, the heterogeneity and complexity of the exit decision and process, hybrid entrepreneurship and social enterprise resourcing strategies. She is also Associate Editor of the Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Journal and Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal. She recently co-edited a special issue for International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behaviour and Research on entrepreneurial learning.

Dr Sally Shamieh , the Research Project Manager at the CRED Research Center of the ESA Business School in Beirut, Lebanon. She is an academic program designer and an expert on entrepreneurship education. She is currently involved in several research studies pertaining to the entrepreneurship ecosystem, female micro-entrepreneurship in the informal economy, entrepreneurial identity and contextualization, and women entrepreneurs in developing contexts. Sally is an advocate of continuous learning, growth, and development. She is also a champion of women’s empowerment and supporter of women’s entrepreneurship.