David V. Day (psychologist)

David V. Day is an American industrial-organizational psychologist, academic, and author. He is a professor of Psychological Science, Steven L. Eggert ’82 P ’15 Professor of Leadership, George R. Roberts Research Fellow, and Academic Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College.^[1]

He is a fellow American Psychological Association,^[2] Association for Psychological Science^[3] and International Association of Applied Psychology.^[4]

Education

Day completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1983 from Baldwin-Wallace College in Psychology part-time while working as an unskilled hourly worker at Ford Motor Company. In 1987, he obtained a Master of Arts in Industrial-Organizational Psychology followed by a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron in 1989.^[1]

Career

Day began his academic career in 1988 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Louisiana State University, where he remained until 1991. He then joined the psychology department at Pennsylvania State University, first as an Assistant Professor from 1991 to 1996, then as an Associate Professor from 1996 to 2002, and finally as a Professor until 2006. During his time at Penn State, he also held a concurrent role as Director of Graduate Training in the Department of Psychology. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. Between 2008 and 2016, he held the Winthrop Professorship and the inaugural Woodside Chair in Leadership and Management at the University of Western Australia Business School. Since 2017, he has been Professor of Psychological Science, Academic Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute, and Steven L. Eggert ’82 P’15 Professor of Leadership at Claremont McKenna College.^[1]

Awards and honors

• 2010 – Walter F. Ulmer Jr., Applied Research Award, Center for Creative Leadership^[5]
• 2024 – Eminent Scholar Award, Academy of Management Network of Leadership Scholars^[6]
• 2024 – Lifetime Achievement Award, International Leadership Association^[7]

Books

• An Integrative Approach to Leader Development (2008) ISBN 9780415964630
• The Nature of Leadership (2017) ISBN 9781483359274
• Developing Leaders and Leadership: Principles, Practices, and Processes (2024) 9783031590672

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