Tracey E. Rizzuto, Ph.D.

Biography

Tracey Rizzuto is the Mary Ethel Baxter Lipscomb Memorial Endowed Professor in the Louisiana State University School of Leadership and Human Resource Development where she served as Interim Director from 2021-24. The overarching focus of her research is on developing human capital and organizational capacity through technology-mediated processes, with the goal of increasing access to the knowledge, expertise, and resources to manage change in the modern workplace. Her secondary research interests include workforce wellness and workplace disaster response.

Dr. Rizzuto has taken an active role in research that benefits local and state interests, such as workplace disaster recovery through the Katrina Aid and Relief Effort (KARE), the Baton Rouge Choice Initiative, and smart policing and prosecution initiatives like the Baton Rouge Area Violence Elimination (BRAVE) program and Crime Strategies Unit (CSU). She is associated with over $20M in state and federal grants, has published in top peer-reviewed journals including Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Information and Management, and her work has been featured in popular media outlets such as The New York Times, National Public Radio’s Market Place and Inside Higher Ed. She is a 2015 TEDxLSU speaker. Dr. Rizzuto received a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Penn State University.

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