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 ​Professor ​Bruce Avolio 

Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Recognized among the world’s most influential management scholars in the Journal of Management

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Dr. Bruce Avolio joined the College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska, Lincoln in September, 2001. He earned his PhD in Industrial, Organizational and Life-span Psychology and an MA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Avolio has an international reputation as a researcher in leadership. He has consulted with public and private organizations in North and South Amreica, Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. His research and consulting includes work with the militaries of the United States of America, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Israel, and South Africa.

Avolio has published five books and more than 80 articles on leadership. His books include Transformational and Charismatic Leadership: The Road Ahead, Full and Developing Potential Across a Full Range of Leadership: Cases on Transactional and Transformational Leadership. His newest books are Leadership Development in Balance: Made/Born and Authentic Leadership Development.

Avolio developed national leadership development systems for government agencies, universities, public school systems, public healthcare systems and nonprofit agencies in South Africa, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

Academic Expertise
Leadership
Organizational Behavior

Current Research
Examining how to accelerate positive forms of leadershipPositions HeldAt the University of Washington since 2008
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (2000-2003)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Professor of Management (2001-2008)
Director, Gallup Leadership Institute (2003-2008)
Director of Doctoral Program in Leadership (2003-2008)
Clifton Chair in Leadership (2001-2008)
Senior Research Scientist, State University of New York
Co-Director of Global Center for Leadership Studies (2000-2001)
Director of Global Center for Leadership Studies (1998-2000)
Co-Director Eisenhower Leadership Development Project (1993-1996)
Director of Doctoral Programs (1993-1994)
Co-Director of the Kellogg Leadership Program (1990-1994)
Director of Graduate Programs (1990-1993)
Associate Director of the Center for Cognitive and Psycholinguistics Sciences (1988-1992)

Selected Publications
  1. “Leadership Models, Methods and Applications: Progress and Remaining Blind Spots“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Sosik, J.J., Berson, Y., Borman, W., Ilgen, D., Klimoski, R., (forthcoming). The Complete Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 12: Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
  2. “The Impact of Psychological Capital on Employee Performance Over Time: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Peterson, S.J., Luthans, F., Walumbwa, F., & Zhang, Z., (forthcoming). Personnel Psychology,
  3. “The Relationship between Authentic Leadership and Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Follower Emotions and Psychological Capital“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Peterson, S.J., Walumbwa, F.O., & Hannah, S.T., (forthcoming). Leadership Quarterly,
  4. “An Integrative Process Model of Leadership: Examining Leadership Loci, Mechanisms and Event Cycles“
    Journal Article: Eberly, M.B., Johnson, M.D., Hernandez, M., & Avolio, B.J., (2013). American Psychologist, Vol. 68(6), pp. 427-443.
  5. “Embedding Ethical Leadership Within and Across Organizational Levels“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Schaubroeck, J.M., Hannah, S.T., Kozlowski, S.W.J., Lord, R.G., Trevino, L.K., Peng, A.C., & Dimotakas, N., (2012). Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 55(5), pp. 1053-1078.
  6. “Leader Self and Means Efficacy: A Multi-Component Approach“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Hannah, S.T., Chan, A., & Walumbwa, F., (2012). Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 118, pp. 143-161.
  7. “Authentic Leadership and Effects on Follower Moral Courage, Psychological Capital, and Performance“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Hannah, S.T., & Walumbwa, F.O., (2011). Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 21(4), pp. 555-557.
  8. “Building Moral Capacity: Toward a Holistic Development Model“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Hannah, S.T., & May, D.R., (2011). Academy of Management Review, Vol. 36, pp. 663-685.
  9. “Leader Character, Ethos and Virtue: Individual and Collective Considerations“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., & Hannah, S.T., (2011). The Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 22, pp. 989-994.
  10. “Leadership and Management Research in Africa: A Synthesis and Suggestions for Future Research“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Walumbwa, F.O., & Aryee, S., (2011). Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 84, pp. 425-439.
  11. “Mentoring Impact on Leader Efficacy Development: A Field Experiment“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Lester, P.O., Hannah, S.T., Harmes, P.D., & Lester, G., (2011). Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Vol. 10, pp. 402-429.
  12. “The Loci and Mechanisms of Leadership: Exploring a More Comprehensive View of Leadership Theory“
    Journal Article: Hernandez, M., Eberly, M.B., Avolio, B.J., & Johnson, M.D., (2011). Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 22(6), pp. 1165-1185.
  13. “The Locus of Leadership“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., & Hannah, S.T., (2011). The Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 22, pp. 979-983.
  14. “Toward a Meta-Theory of Leadership: Conceptualizing the Loci and Mechanisms of Leadership Within a Double Interact Process Model“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Eberly, M., Johnson, M., & Hernandez, M., (2011). The Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 22, pp. 1165-1185.
  15. “An Investigation of the Relationships between Leader and Follower Psychological Capital, Service Climate and Job Performance“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Walumbwa, F.O., Peterson, S.J., & Hartnell, C.A., (2010). Personnel Psychology, Vol. 63, pp. 977-1003.
  16. “The Genetic Basis of Entrepreneurship: Effects of Gender and Parents“
    Journal Article: Avolio, B., Zhang, Z., Zyphur, M., Narayanan, J., Chaturvedi, S., Lichtenstein, P., & Larsson, G., (2009).Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 110, pp. 93-107.

Consulting
Focusing on strategic leadership transformation and organization change

Honors and Awards
Named a Fellow of the American Psychological Society (2009)
Named a Fellow of the Academy of Management (2009)
Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, and Gerontological Society
SUNY-Binghamton Award for Distinguished Scholarly Research (2000)
Appointed to Chief of Defense Advisory Council, Singapore (2002)
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence (2001)
Corning Innovation and Research Award (1988, 1998)
Nominated Fellow, Five-year Kellogg Leadership Studies Project

Academic Service
Past Associate Editor, Human Resource Management Journal
Past Board Member for the Psychology and Aging Journal
Board Member for Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Organizational Behavior
Editorial Reviewer for Experimental Aging Research, Personnel Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Gerontology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Social Psychology