Jonathan H. Westover, Ph.D. is a best selling and award-winning author and podcaster, a TopVoice in HR, Culture, Leadership, Innovation, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, Change Management, and Education (Thinkers360), ranked in the Top 30 in Management and Organizational Culture (Global Gurus), and ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar). Additionally, ScholarGPS has ranked him the #16 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. LeadersHum put him on their Power List of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership to watch. He is an entrepreneur, management consultant, teacher, and research academic based in Orem, Utah. He is the host and producer of multiple shows on the HCI Podcast Network, Chief Academic & Learning Officer of the HCI Academy, and serves on a host of nonprofit, community, and association boards and committees and has received numerous awards for his teaching, research, and service to the community.
Current Professional Roles
Academic: Dr. Westover is a professor and chair of Organizational Leadership in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University, Academic Director of the UVU Center for Social Impact and the UVU SIMLab, and Industry Impact Fellow in the Women in Business Impact Lab. Dr. Westover has been published widely in academic journals, books, and practitioner publications. He is an affiliate faculty member in the MBA, MPA, and Integrated Studies programs at UVU and he is a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs.
Consulting: Jonathan is an experienced organizational leadership, people management, and organizational development consultant and managing partner and principal at Human Capital Innovations. For two decades, he has worked to help transform organizations across the globe. He is also the producer and host of the Human Capital Innovations (HCI) Podcast and Managing Editor of Human Capital Leadership Magazine. Previously, Jonathan was an external consultant with the firm Targeted Learning, and an internal consultant in the Human Resource Development office at Brigham Young University, in the corporate Organizational Development office at InterContinental Hotels, and in the corporate Organizational Development office at LG Electronics in Gumi, South Korea.
Thought Leadership: Jonathan is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advusory Council, the Forbes Coaches Council, a Non-Resident Fellow in Social and Development Policy with the Nkafu Policy Institute (part of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation), member of the HR Certification Institute CEO Advisory Council and past member of the board of directors, member of the Humantelligence Scientific Advisory, Board Chair and Director of the Corporate Division of the Global Listening Centre, a CIPD Academic Fellow, and an Advance HE Senior Fellow. Jonathan has been published widely and quoted as a management expert in popular and professional media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as Forbes, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, MarketWatch, HR.com, SHRM.org, HRCI.org, The Washington Post, and USA Today).
Education
Jonathan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology: Research and Analysis (with minors in management and Korean) from the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences and his Master of Public Administration degree (emphases in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management) from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology (emphases in International Political Economy and Work and Organizations) from the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah. He has also received graduate certificates in demography and higher education teaching from the University of Utah.
