Matthew Higgins is a researcher in positive organizational psychology whose work examines resilience as a dynamic, meaning-making process across individuals, teams, and organizations. His research integrates communication theory, futures thinking, and prospection to understand how people and institutions imagine, anticipate, and prepare for change under conditions of disruption and uncertainty. Drawing on mixed methods—including longitudinal designs, ethnography, autoethnography, and applied evaluation—his scholarship explores team resilience, meaningful work, leadership communication, and organizational adaptation in contexts such as higher education, sport, and complex organizations. In parallel, he studies prospective cognition and futures-oriented sensemaking, investigating how imagined futures shape present action, collective resilience, and institutional capacity to endure and evolve. His work is interdisciplinary, practice-engaged, and oriented toward producing theoretically grounded insights that inform real-world interventions, leadership development, and organizational decision-making
BCOR 1030 - Communication Strategy
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Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Helps develop basic communication skills to prepare you for success in the business world. This communication and social science theory-based, skill-building course is framed in Fiske and Cuddy's person perception theory that all people are perceived on two dimensions, competence and warmth. You will learn how to use communication skills to strategically demonstrate those dimensions.
BUSO 2100 - No-Stress Leadership
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Fall 2025
Equips students with the essential skills, knowledge, and mindset required to become effective leaders in today's fast-paced and challenging world. This course emphasizes a holistic approach to leadership that integrates personal well-being, emotional intelligence, and strategic decision-making to foster a productive and low-stress leadership style. The course will provide students with ways to help them manage their own stress to become leaders who can model well-being to their team members.
MBAC 6001 - Foundations of Teamwork
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Summer 2025
Focuses on teamwork effectiveness and collaboration. Students will understand what affects team outcomes, how to maximize a team�s effectiveness and how to create a company environment that fosters collaboration and teamwork as they develop their own teamwork skills while learning to develop the skills of their employees' and colleagues'.
