As always Academy of Management was hectic and inspirational – 5 days of intense learning, presenting and networking.
This year I started my AOM experience earlier due to a pre-preconference event. Namely, I recently joined a group of researchers named 5C – they study careers in cross-cultural setting – and our meeting was scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday before the Academy at McGill University. This was my first contact with this very interesting group of people. I enjoyed listening to experts talking about careers, learned a lot, and tried to contribute as much as I could to the discussion. The meeting ended with a challenging agenda for the future.
The AOM annual event itself was full of great content, meeting old friends and making new contacts. The meeting of HR Ambassadors was packed with high expectations before the launch of our commonly created international HR casebook. The PDWs and scholarly sessions were interesting but …according to Murphy’s law 
sometimes scheduled at the same time or far apart (this time the organizers really cared for fitness of participants, jogging between various conference locations was my favourite sport, too ). Our symposium about Bridging micro-macro divides in Strategic HRM was well attended and generated some interesting comments and questions.
This year I volunteered to be a mentor to two first-time participants – it was a great and very rewarding experience – have to do it next year. Strange enough, out of almost 10,000 participants, I bumped into my mentee on the first day of the conference ordering coffee. What a coincidence!
All in all, AOM in Montreal was great and I am looking forward to Texas next year.
Mentoring new members
