Patrick Diogenia, Graduate Researcher in Communication Studies

I am a graduate student in Communication Studies at New Mexico State University with research interests at the intersection of organizational communication, leadership, decision-making, and technology. I am particularly interested in how people and organizations interpret information, exercise judgment, and communicate under conditions of uncertainty and change.

My current work explores questions involving leadership behavior, organizational decision-making, artificial intelligence and analytics, and the relationship between technical tools and the human systems in which they are used. One area of ongoing work examines Strength Overshoot—the idea that a leadership strength can become counterproductive when it is applied beyond the point at which a situation benefits from it.

Alongside my academic work, I bring more than two decades of professional experience in marketing, growth strategy, customer analytics, loyalty, and organizational transformation. That practitioner background shapes my interest in research that connects communication theory and behavioral insight with consequential problems faced by organizations and their leaders.

image descriptionResearch Interests

  • Organizational communication and leadership
  • Decision-making and managerial judgment
  • Leadership behavior and Strength Overshoot
  • Artificial intelligence and technology adoption
  • Customer and audience segmentation
  • Organizational behavior and change

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