Nathan J. Hiller, Ph.D.

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 connecting the science of leadership and the practice of helping leaders and organizations amplify leadership capacity.

As an academic, Dr. Hiller's focus is on investigating how senior organizational leaders and leadership teams can operate more effectively, as well as research designed to improve how we study leadership. His works have been cited over 6,000 times and his research has appeared in most of the top competitive journals in the field, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, and The Leadership Quarterly.

Dr. Hiller is currently co-President of the Network of Leadership Scholars of the Academy of Management and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He 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, Dr. Hiller oversees all executive leadership development programs comprising close to 8000 person-hours of programming per year. 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, and clients across industries ranging from power generation to finance and family office work, and from cruise services to education.

Dr. Hiller has held visiting faculty appointments at Cornell, University of Washington (Seattle), University of British Columbia, 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 The Pennsylvania State University.

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Recent Research

König, A., Stöcklein, B., Hiller, N. J., Cooper, C. D., & Bong, D. (in press, 2024). Good Fun or Laughingstock? How CEO Humor Affects Infomediaries’ Social Evaluations of Organizations. Academy of Management Review.

Zhou, S., Hiller, N. J., Zaccaro, S. J., Campbell, L. N. P., McCauley, R., Parris, T., & Klimoski, R. J. (2024). The corporate chief of staff: Strategic leadership influence from outside the spotlight. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 31(3), 289-303.

Senior Leadership Teams and the Agile Organization (2024). Zaccaro, S. J., Hiller, N. J., & Klimoski R. (Editors). Part of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology Frontiers Series, published by Routledge.

Cooper C.D., Hiller N. (2023). Leader humor across levels. Current Opinion in Psychology.

He, W., Hao, P., Huang, X., Long, L.-R., Hiller, N. J., & Li, S.-L. (2020). Different roles of shared and vertical leadership in promoting team creativity: Cultivating and synthesizing team members’ individual creativity. Personnel Psychology, 73(1), 199-225.