Rate My Professor Victor Sojo Monzon

Associate Professor Victor Sojo Monzon serves in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, holding the position of Associate Professor in Leadership within the Department of Management and Marketing and affiliating with the Centre for Workplace Leadership. He earned a BSc in Industrial/Organisational Psychology (Magna Cum Laude), an MSc in Health Psychology, and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Melbourne. His research adopts a multidisciplinary and intersectional perspective to investigate factors that promote or impede gender equality in workplaces and sports, encompassing incivility, gender harassment, work-family conflict, unconscious bias in talent management, diversity management strategies, leadership development mechanisms, implicit leadership theories, and the effects of gender inequality on public health outcomes.

Victor Sojo Monzon has engaged extensively with public sector organizations including NSW Police, Victorian Government Department of Premier and Cabinet, Office for Prevention of Family Violence and Women's Equality, VicHealth, and City of Monash, alongside private entities such as CoHealth, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, EACH, Oxfam, and PwC, providing research, training, and consulting. His scholarship is funded through national competitive grants and contracts with government and private organizations. Key publications feature in premier outlets like The Leadership Quarterly, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Psychological Science, Sport Management Review, British Journal of Sports Medicine, and The Lancet, including 'Harmful workplace experiences and women’s occupational well-being: A meta-analysis' (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2016; 2016 Best Paper Award), 'Why does workplace gender diversity matter? Justice, organizational benefits, and policy' (Social Issues and Policy Review, 2019), 'Reporting requirements, targets, and quotas for women in leadership' (The Leadership Quarterly, 2016), 'Organisational factors and non-accidental violence in sport: A systematic review' (Sport Management Review, 2019), and 'The #MeToo movement: an opportunity in public health?' (The Lancet, 2018). He received the inaugural 2019 FBE-MBS Dean's Prize for Exceptional Distinction in Research Engagement and Partnerships at Level A-C for the Recruit Smarter Initiative with 48 organizations. His contributions shape diversity practices, leadership training, and equity policies across sectors.