Christine Sinord

I am a full-time doctoral candidate researching why and how businesses fail from the inside out and its effect on the economy. My work focuses on management, including HR, organizational behavior, and leadership that impacts organizations, and how these internal factors correlate to external factors such as the state of the economy, shifting markets, and consumer demand. I've been in my field for 13 years, starting with 8 years in military human resources where I worked in command at divisional levels, or what civilians would call the executive suite, working with leadership at a fairly young age. During my time in the military, I witnessed toxic leadership firsthand and noticed that retention rates were extremely low, with many people wanting to leave. The military dropped a regulation called toxic leadership, and from there I became fascinated with how toxic leadership can affect an organization's ability to be sustainable in the marketplace. I looked at this not only from the military lens but from different business sectors across healthcare, e-commerce, and other industries, examining what holds the organization together internally and how it affects sustainability. After leaving the military, I earned my associate's degree from Seminole State where I was part of the Entrepreneur Club and the Law Hub. I then got my bachelor's in technical management from DeVry University and my master's from Keller, a branch of DeVry, where I scored in the 99th percentile of business strategy and strategic management out of over 50,000 people who took the same capstone exam. I got accepted into several doctoral programs, mostly DBAs, but the PhD in management stood out more to me because it was more focused on internal factors and how to manage a business properly so that it's sustainable. I've been in this doctoral role for about 2 years now and am getting ready to publish in a few journals as a researcher.