David Day

David V. Day is Professor and Woodside Chair in Leadership and Management at The University of Western Australia Business School. Day has core research interests in the areas of leadership and leadership development. He is the lead author on An Integrative Approach to Leader Development (Routledge, 2009) and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2014). He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology (2008-2014)and presently as a Consulting Editor for several other scholarly journals. Day is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, International Association of Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Day was awarded the 2010 Walter F. Ulmer Research Award from the Center for Creative Leadership (USA) for outstanding, career-long contributions to applied leadership research.

Associate Editor: The Leadership Quarterly (2017-2021); Editor, The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review.

Editorial Board:
Academy of Management Journal
Annual Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Management
The Leadership Quarterly
Personnel Psychology

Current and Future Projects
Identity processes in leader development
Network churn and leadership development
Leadership and team science

2010-2012, ARC Discovery Project grant (Longitudinal, Multilevel Tests of an Integrative Theory of Leader Development, #1093209; $215,000; PI).

1998-2003, W. K. Kellogg Foundation Leadership for Institutional Change Initiative, Phases I-II (total USD$309,000; Co-PI).

1998, Penn State College of Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office research award to investigate nurses’ perceptions of hospital psychological climate (USD$3,000; Co-PI)

1997-1998, Boeing Corp. First Level Management Selection Process Implementation (USD$166,500; Associate Investigator).

1996, Penn State College of Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office research award to investigate gender and leadership perceptions within a dynamic systems theory framework (USD$4,000; PI).

1995-1996, University Libraries Climate for Diversity; Penn State University Libraries (USD$15,129; PI).

1994, Penn State College of Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office research award to conduct a meta-analysis of self-monitoring (USD$2,000; PI).

1994, Avery Dennison Co. to design and implement assessment devices for the U.S. chemical division workforce for use in selecting and training future employees (USD$35,000; Co-PI).

1994, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to construct and validate an update of the Pennsylvania driver's license exam (USD$30,000; Co-PI).

1993-1994, Unisource, Inc. to develop a competency model for executive assessment and succession planning (USD$14,500; Co-PI).

1993-1996, Demonstration grant from the Private Industry Council of Philadelphia, Inc. via the U.S. Department of Labor to design and deliver a system to aid in the transition of defense workers at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and Base (total USD$575,00; Research Associate and Co-PI).

Total Citation Counts (JAN 2016)
Web of Science: 3,064 (h index = 26)
Google Scholar: 10,861 (h index = 43)

Incoming Associate Editor, The Leadership Quarterly
Incoming Editor, The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review

2008-2014, Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Psychology

Editorial Board Member
Academy of Management Journal
Annual Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Inaugural Editorial Committee Member)
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Management
The Leadership Quarterly
Personnel Psychology

Industrial Relevance
Network churn and leadership development
Longitudinal modeling of identity and leader development processes
Impact of editors on journal performance

Prof. Day has worked with organizations such as the U.S. Army, Singapore Armed Forces, Infosys Technologies (India), Wesfarmers Ltd. (Australia) among others on projects related to leadership and leadership development.

MBA program

Leadership and leader development
Development of collective leadership capacity
Talent management and development
Personality and individual differences in organizations