NATHAN J. HILLER
Nathan J. Hiller, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor in the Department of Global Leadership and Management in the College of Business, where he holds the Ingersoll-Rand Professorship. 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, finding ways to enhance how leadership scholars investigate and understand leadership, and understanding the ins and outs of collective forms of leadership. His research publications have appeared in most of the top competitive journals in the field, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and The Leadership Quarterly. His work has been cited almost 4000 times by other scholars.
He holds or has held editorial board positions at the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He is the recipient of 8 teaching awards and has received several international research awards. In his role at the Center for Leadership at FIU, Dr. Hiller 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 an internal FIU program for senior leaders (deans, vice presidents) of the university. As a leadership development practitioner, he has led projects, held grants, and coached and consulted with senior executive teams and leaders from dozens of organizations including Boston Scientific, Hewlett Packard (HP), the US Secret Service, Bacardi USA, Norwegian Cruise Lines, and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Hiller has held visiting faculty appointments at Cornell University and the University of Washington (Seattle) and taught a graduate leadership course at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Calgary and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University and has lived in four countries on three continents in ten cities.
