Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., CMC P’10 is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Riggio’s research interests center on charismatic and transformational leadership, nonverbal and verbal communication skills, and the development of leadership potential across the lifespan. He has published over two-dozen authored or edited books and more than 200 articles and book chapters. He has also served as a consultant to dozens of organizations, large and small, across the business, education, and non-profit sectors. He is the editor of the Routledge/Taylor & Francis book series: Leadership: Research and Practice
and Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Leadership. In 2020 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association, and he is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.

He has been at CMC since 1996. Prior to that he worked in the Cal State and University of California systems for many years. He is a leadership scholar and organizational psychologist, but his early background was in social psychology and nonverbal communication.

Relevant Research

• Barrett, M. (2012). Book review: Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines. Vision the Journal of Business Perspective, 16(1), 65–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/097226291201600110

• Bass, B. M., & Riggio, R. E. (2006). Transformational leadership. In Psychology Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781410617095

Interests

• Human Resources Management

• Innovation

• Leadership

• Non-Verbal Communication

• Organizational Psychology