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Cameron Conaway

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Covers:  Feedback, Ethical Leadership
Prof @ Penn State Smeal College of Business | Contact: cameronconaway.com

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Cameron Conaway is a faculty member at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, where he teaches ethical leadership, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility. A former global marketing lead at Cisco and award-winning investigative journalist, Cameron now researches what he calls employee feedback literacy—how employees seek, give, receive, process, and use feedback—and how these practices support organizational resilience, innovation, and psychological safety.

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Confronting Cringe Culture in the Classroom

Confronting Cringe Culture in the Classroom

Help students move through discomfort, vulnerability, and fear of judgment with a classroom framework for bui…

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To Develop Career-Ready Graduates, Make Sure They're Fluent in Feedback

To Develop Career-Ready Graduates, Make Sure They're Fluent in Feedback

Explore the concept of feedback literacy and its role in preparing students for their futures. Discover how e…

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Reap the Benefits of Case Teaching-Without All the Prep

Reap the Benefits of Case Teaching-Without All the Prep

Fast-paced classes need exercises that are easy to prep and align with course objectives without feeling like…

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Never Taught with a Simulation? Start Here.

Never Taught with a Simulation? Start Here.

Last semester, I taught a simulation for the first time in my decade-long career as a college educator. It we…

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Developing Your Feedback Orientation as a Freelancer

Developing Your Feedback Orientation as a Freelancer

In general, freelancers tend to have a unique relationship with feedback in that they can: Receive feedback f…

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The Right Way to Process Feedback

The Right Way to Process Feedback

We all receive feedback from time to time. But are we able to process it and make the most of it? Not always.…

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Articles

21 Powerful Ways That Men Practice Happiness

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By Cameron Conaway
| The Good Men Project
—- Happiness isn’t merely “that time when…” or some fleeting feeling. It’s a way of living, a practice. Work, sport, traveling, and training in mindfulness have painted for me a direct link between happiness and the practice of it. So many of our commercials and metaphors carry within them the importance of practice and work ethic. Kobe Bryant not leaving the gym until he hits his 500th jumper, or the pianist waking every morning at 4am to squeeze in a lesson before going to work.
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Developing Your Feedback Orientation as a Freelancer

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By Cameron Conaway
| freelancersunion.org
In general, freelancers tend to have a unique relationship with feedback in that they can: Receive feedback from a wide range of clients and perspectives, which can help them continuously improve their craft in ways non-freelancers may not have access to; Fall into the feedback-giving trap by believing their role means they are expected only to receive rather than give and receive; and, Grow into skilled people pleasers that miss out on some of the profound benefits of processing feedback.
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The Right Way to Process Feedback

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By Cameron Conaway
| Harvard Business Review
Where your work meets your life. See more from Ascend here. As an English major, writing was a big part of my curriculum. Whether I was writing literary criticism or a reflection on one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, my papers rarely came back to me with clean white margins. But there was never any formal feedback. The edits just meant the professor had wrestled with my writing and that I had plenty of opportunities to learn. I eventually grew accustomed to seeing my work covered in red pen.
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Awards

Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Fellowship

2015 - Investigative Journalism

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