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  • Nathan J. Hiller, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Ingersoll-Rand Professor of Global Leadership and Management in the College of Business at Florida International University. He is passionate about the connection between the science of leadership and the practice of helping leaders and organizations make small adjustments to maximize leadership capacity.

    As an academic, Dr. Hiller's focus is on investigating how senior organizational leaders and leadership teams can operate more effectively, and finding ways to enhance how leadership scholars investigate and understand leadership. Nathan’s research publications have appeared in most of the top competitive journals in the field and his work has been cited more than 6000 times by other scholars. He is currently co-president of the Network of Leadership Scholars (Academy of Management), Associate Editor at the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and has held editorial board positions at the Journal of Applied Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly. He is the recipient of 10 teaching awards and has received several international research awards.

    In his role at the Center for Leadership at FIU, Nathan oversees all executive leadership development programs and is the Faculty lead for The Senior Executive Leaders Program, The High Impact Leadership Program, The Leadership Accelerator Program, and various custom programs for corporate and non-profit clients. As a leadership development practitioner, Nathan has led projects and consulted with senior executive teams and leaders from industries ranging from bioscience and hospitality to fintech, finance, and family offices, to high profile federal government agencies such as the US Secret Service.

    Nathan has held visiting faculty appointments at Cornell University, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of British Columbia, and taught a graduate leadership course at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. Nathan loves to travel and draws regularly from his experience living in four countries on three continents in ten cities. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Calgary and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.

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  • Leadership and Leadership Development; Organizational Culture; Psychology of Top Executives; Human Capital Development; Organizational Change and Transformations

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