Bruce Avolio

Education

• PhD University of Akron (1981)
• MA University of Akron (1978)
• BA State University of New York (1975)

Academic Expertise

• gamification
• global business
• leadership
• organizational behavior
• organizational transformation

Current Research

• Examining how to accelerate positive forms of leadership

Positions Held

• At 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)

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

• Special Editor for International Journal of Public Administration
• Consulting Editor: Iatrogenics Handbook, R. Morgan Canadian National Institute of Sciences
• U.S. Department of Education
• Editor, The Applied Gerontologist (1985-1986)

Courses Taught

• Over the past 5 years, I have taught 4 different courses in the MBA and PhD programs. In the MBA program I have taught Management 511 Leadership & Coaching for the “Fritzky Fellows. This is a practicum and is intended to be a leadership developmental experience that trains a highly select group of 2nd year MBAs to work with first year MBA students on their leadership development. I teach the Technology MBA Management 510 course on Leadership Development. The main focus of this course is to provide students with a developmental framework/process and evidence-based models that can help enhance their leadership development. The third course is Technology Management 549: International Business & Cultural Immersion, which immerses students in a different cultural and business context. Building into the student’s international experience we focus on examining the students’ global mindset that each brings to the cross-cultural experience (e.g., past trips included to Peru, Japan, etc.). The fourth course is Management 583: Special Topics in Organizational Behavior. This is a doctoral seminar that examines the major theories of leadership and their applications to both advancing research and in practice. Finally, I am working with Christina Fong and Fran Lo on developing BA/GENST 391: Learning Leadership in Theory & Practice, which is part of the campus-wide Husky Leadership Initiative (HLI) focusing on undergraduate leadership development.