Evelina Atanassova Ph.D.

Dr. Evelina Atanassova is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Human Resources and Leadership. Evelina has served as Adjunct Faculty for Brandman University since 2014, focusing on the disciplines of Organizational Leadership and Human Resources. She has also had extensive teaching experience at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris and the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton.

Evelina’s research interests include organization management and organization behavior theories; she is currently investigating social networking strategies as a response to professional demands and individual goals, as well as social capital outcomes of social network configurations. Evelina’s research has been presented at major management academic conferences, such as The Academy of Management and the European Group for Organization Studies.

Earlier in her career, she gained operational leadership experience in Human Resource Management as an HR Manager within a large European telecommunications company. In that capacity, Evelina was responsible for developing and implementing large-scale strategic initiatives spanning diverse HR disciplines, including job evaluation and grading, performance appraisal, organizational restructuring, competency models and leadership development. She holds a Ph.D. in Management from HEC Paris, as well as an MA in Organization Leadership from Chapman University, and an MA in Human Resource Management from the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.