Ronald E. Riggio

Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology and Director of the Kravis Leadership at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of a dozen books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on leadership, industrial/organizational psychology, and social psychology. His most recent books are Multiple Intelligences and Leadership (co-edited by Susan Murphy and Fran Pirozzolo; LEA), The Future of Leadership Development (co-edited by Susan Murphy; LEA), Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (co-edited by Sarah Smith Orr, LEA), and the forthcoming Transformational Leadership (2nd ed., LEA) coauthored with Bernard M. Bass.

Professor Riggio received his B.S. degree in Psychology from Santa Clara University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside. He has been on the faculties of UC Irvine, California State University, Fullerton, and UC Riverside, and was a research psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He has taught courses in organizational psychology and leadership for over 25 years, and he was the inaugural recipient of the Western Psychological Association’s “Outstanding Teaching Award” in 1993.

Professor Riggio was the Convener of the Global Learning Community for Scholarship of the International Leadership Association in 2003, and has been a member of the ILA since 2001.

Professor Riggio is an Associate Editor of The Leadership Quarterly, and is on the Editorial Boards of Leadership, Leadership Review, and the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. He was the Editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior from 1997-2001, and recently co-edited Applications of Nonverbal Communication (LEA, 2005), with Robert Feldman. In 1994 he began the weekly Shoptalk column for the Los Angeles Times, a column that dealt with workplace issues in a question-and-answer format, from 1994-2001.

Dr. Riggio has been a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies and smaller organizations, and was a principal consultant for Advantage Systems Consultants. He has also been affiliated with the consulting firms Mattson & Sherrod, Inc. and Applied Research Group. He is currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the Western Psychological Association and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and WPA, as well as a member of many professional organizations in psychology, management, and leadership.

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