Kweisi Ausar

Assistant Professor, Hospitality
Expertise: Leadership Development, Performance-Based Coaching, Ethical Leadership, Workplace spirituality

Biography

Kweisi Ausar is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas specializing in exploring perceptions and behaviors of managers and employees in organizational contexts. Ausar has authored and co-authored articles on authentic leadership, ethical leadership, employee engagement, supervisor support, and spirituality in the workplace. He currently has research projects underway focused on the dark side of leadership, such abusive supervision and workplace incivility.

Ausar has a wealth of business experience working his way up from the employee level to a senior leader with a Fortune 300 company during his 23-year corporate career.

As a former corporate executive, Ausar has a strong background in strategic human capital development and knows what it takes to make career transitions. He is an expert in people development from both practical and academic perspectives.

 

Kweisi Ausar In The News

Desert Companion
A kitchen scar can be a badge of honor for professional chefs. They trade war stories about run-ins with the broiler and nasty cuts from the meat slicer. Some even get body art highlighting charred skin and sizable scrapes earned from busy nights on the line. But for many Black chefs, the permanent marks are less visible; they come from the mental anguish of trying to make their way to the top.
K.N.P.R. News
More than one in 10 Nevadans work in the hospitality and entertainment industry. About 360,000 people, in everything from singing and acting to serving and bartending to cleaning rooms and checking people in and out of hotels.
The Voice
People who have taken on new African names talk about the mental emancipation it brings
Newsweek
A woman got the last laugh on an old boss with a lucrative lawsuit stemming from alleged sexual comments made in the workplace.

Articles Featuring Kweisi Ausar

Spring Flowers (Becca Schwartz)
Campus News | April 1, 2024

A roundup of the top news stories featuring 8kbet students and faculty.

Kweisi Ausur standing against a wall
People | February 19, 2021

8kbet hospitality professor journeys through pain and shame to discover his identity.

commercial kitchen with chefs working in background
Research | June 25, 2020

A long history of discriminatory practices and a 8kbet study that shows how it impacts both workers and businesses points to a need for industry-wide change.

Anthony Gatling
Research | October 26, 2016

Anthony Gatling measures ‘workplace spirituality’ to gauge hospitality employee satisfaction.