Kristen Faile

Biography

Dr. Faile began teaching at Belmont University in 2022 and was previously teaching at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Faile has worked in multiple industries prior to academia with much of her experience being in the management, legal, and acquisitions side of large-scale real estate properties (i.e. mixed-use buildings, apartment communities, homeowners' associations, retail spaces, resorts etc…). A certified paralegal, she enjoys bringing a legal lens to the management side of business and providing students with a well-rounded perspective of management from multiple industries.
 
Kristen is active in the community and a big proponent of dog rescue, acting as both a volunteer and a frequent dog foster. She has served multiple leadership roles in the academic community including acting as a mentor for the Middle Tennessee SHRM chapter and as a Board Member and the Media Director for the Southwest Academy of Management for multiple years. 
 
Kristen enjoys international travel and learning to cook dishes from different countries. She is a passionate fan of all things performance-related and volunteered as a song/dance instructor for a children’s nonprofit theater group for 5 years. She loves hiking, boating, swimming and anything that allows her to get outside with her family and her dogs. She is also a big proponent of hot yoga!

Dr. Faile’s academic research focuses on how individual characteristics and behaviors in employees (including in the CEO population) lead to diverse individual outcomes (i.e. loneliness, well-being, compensation and dismissal). Kristen is especially interested in unique working communities including fully distributed organizations and the upper echelons of organizations. She also enjoys creating experiential classroom activities for undergraduate and graduate students and publishing these activities in teaching journals to enhance the pedagogy of other management instructors. Faile has presented her work at academic conferences including the Academy of Management, the Southwest Academy of Management, and the Southern Management Association (SMA).