B. Alan Echtenkamp, Ph.D.

Research Interests

B. Alan Echtenkamp joined the Kravis Leadership Institute as a postdoctoral research fellow in January 2004.  Alan’s dissertation employed a dynamic social-cognitive model of personality to explain stability and variability in leader decision-making, and he is currently editing the manuscript for publication.  His research interests include leadership and organization development, organization change, and strategic human resource management.  Alan has worked in the private and public sector with organizations such as Citigroup, JPMorganChase, Mercer HR Consulting, Sanctuary for Families, and Victim Services.  He has also held adjunct teaching positions at Columbia University Teachers College, New York University Stern School of Business, and Barnard College.   Alan has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University.

Publications

Echtenkamp, B. A. (2004). Open Systems Theory and Leadership: A Dynamic Person-Centric Framework. Leadership Review, 4, 89-102.

Works in Progress

• The Nature and Nurture of Leadership: A Social-Cognitive Model of Leader Decision-Making (currently editing dissertation for publication)
• Longitudinal quasi-experimental study identifying the long-term importance and impact of leadership training in higher education (project with the Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College)
• The impact of dispositional and situational goal orientation on complex task performance (working paper with C.J. Block).

Presentations

• Echtenkamp, B. A., & Riggio, R. E. (2004). Authentic Impression Management in the Individual, Group, and Organization: A Brief Research Agenda. Paper presented at University of Nebraska – Lincoln Gallup Leadership Institute Summit, Omaha, Nebraska.
• Echtenkamp, B. A., Bergeron, D. M., & Block, C. J. (2003). Stereotype threat in the workplace: Goal orientation as a remedy. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Bergeron, D. M., Echtenkamp, B. A., & Block, C. J. (2001). Disabling the able: Stereotype threat and women’s work performance. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego, California.

Other KLI activities

• Step Up to Leadership – Assistant Program Director
• Leadership Academy – Assist program delivery
• 14th annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference – Assist program delivery