Michelle Blood Checketts
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing and Management
Bio
Dr. Michelle Blood Checketts is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Wyoming. Her research explores how organizations can best include and engage their employees by helping them amplify strengths and mitigate challenges, with a particular focus on neurodiversity, gender, and race. She employs multiple methods to examine these groups, including qualitative interviews, archival analysis, and lab experiments. Her research has been published in Applied Psychology and the forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Neurodiversity at Work. Dr. Checketts has won numerous awards for her research examining the experiences of Autistic professionals in the workplace, including the Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM) Dare to Care Dissertation Scholarship, and the Gies Emerging Scholar Award from the University of Illinois. Prior to earning her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she earned her B.S. in Psychology and MBA in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University and spent 10 years working in human resources, consulting, and advising, spanning Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, the tech industry, and a business school. When not working, Dr. Checketts enjoys singing, yoga, hiking, traveling, basketball, community service, and creating a full life with her husband, Josh, and their four children.
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MBA, Brigham Young University
B.S., Brigham Young University
Teaching Interests
Organizational Behavior
Human Resource Management
Leadership and Teams
Research Interests
Neurodiversity at Work
Inclusion and Belonging
Women in Business
Selected Publications
Checketts, M. B., & Ezerins, M. E. (In press). Wayfinding allyship: Co-navigation of cross-neurotype cultural norms. The SAGE Handbook of Neurodiversity at Work.
Checketts, M. B. (2026). A systematic review of autism in the workplace: Taking a holistic perspective on the Autistic employee life cycle. Applied Psychology, 75(4), e70116.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.