The Telfer School of Management is excited to announce Professor Jennifer Dimoff as the recipient of the 2026 Telfer Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award. Created in 2025, this award celebrates researchers who work to disseminate knowledge generated through their research in innovative and impactful ways.
Impactful research = healthier workplaces
Professor Dimoff’s research explores health in the workplace, with a special focus on mental health and women’s experiences in the workforce. Her training and expertise in psychology and organizational behaviour give her a unique advantage to explore these topics. In her words, “Being an industrial/organizational psychologist means that I have the unique privilege of being a scientist-practitioner – someone who bridges the gap between research and business.” As such, her work is having considerable impact on workplaces and the people within them. That’s because knowledge mobilization is embedded in every stage of her research.
One of the ways Professor Dimoff ensures her research is impactful is by collaborating with diverse stakeholders at multiple organizations to establish her research questions. This way, she draws on the real-world experience of the organizations, from small community groups like the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Centre in Calgary to multinational corporations like Bell and Sun Life Financial. This helps her and her collegues develop research questions they can use to develop practical, scalable approaches to improve workplace mental health.
Beyond co-creating research questions, the organizations become true partners, actively participating throughout research projects. Working closely with partner organizations allows Professor Dimoff and her colleagues to tailor their solutions to best meet the needs of the workplaces for which they’re designed, resulting in truly collaborative research.
Real impact in the workplace
One of the most notable outcomes of that research is the Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT). This program aims to provide managers with the skills, awareness, and knowledge they need to support their staff. Dimoff and colleagues’ 2016 study says it is one of the only programs of its kind in the world (and the first in Canada) “to demonstrate both measurable reductions in workplace disability and a positive return on investment.” Since its creation, it has been adapted, translated and expanded to increase its reach across sectors such as healthcare, construction, education and the military, training over 10,000 leaders across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
On top of her ongoing work on MHAT, Professor Dimoff provides other workshops and training, presents at academic and industry conferences, supervises graduate students, and shares her knowledge with the public through media appearances and opinion pieces.
Since joining Telfer in 2019, Professor Dimoff has been awarded the 2024 Telfer Emerging Research Award and received significant recognition from her peers at the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, to name a few.
The Telfer School of Management offers Professor Dimoff its warmest congratulations!
Jennifer Dimoff is an associate professor at the Telfer School of Management, co-founder of the Triple I Lab and holds the Kathryn Tremblay Endowed Professorship of Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Leadership.
The 2025 recipient of the Telfer Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award was Professor Michael Mulvey.
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