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Stuart
Sidle received his B.A. from The American University and his MA and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from DePaul
University. Currently, he is the director of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology programs at the University
of New Haven where he teaches courses in Leadership, Motivation, Organizational Development and Human Resource Management.
Before joining UNH, Stuart has held full time faculty appointments at DePaul University's College of Commerce and at Saint
Xavier University's Department of Psychology. He has won awards for excellence in teaching at both universities.
His research interests include leading change, employee surveys, job stress, work place humor and stereotyping in the personnel
selection process. In addition to lecturing throughout the United States on these topics, he has published his findings in
such journals as the Academy of Management Executive, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology and the Journal of Business
and Psychology.
As a consultant, Dr. Sidle has assisted a wide range of organizations with many different challenges
including overcoming resistance to change, improving personnel selection systems, creating performance evaluation systems,
and developing leadership training workshops for managers and employees. Furthermore, Dr. Sidle has facilitated organizational
development retreats and strategic planning meetings for senior leaders of businesses, nonprofit agencies and universities.
He is an active member of the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the Society of Human Resource Management and
the Academy of Management. And, in 2009 Dr. Sidle was named a "Rising Star" by the magazine Business New
Haven.
Stuart Sidle was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Lacking the talent to become a rock star or
the athletic ability to become a professional baseball player, he decided to move to Chicago to pursue the rewarding field
of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. While earning his Ph.D in I/O Psychology in Chicago, he was simultaneously studying
and performing with several improvisational theater troops. He learned that the skills needed to succeed as an improv troop
are similar to the ones organizational leaders need to manage teams and to inspire workplace innovation. Many of the exercises
he uses when training managers or teaching MBA students are a blend of techniques used to develop improvisational theater
teams and classic Organizational Development interventions.
When not at work, he is usually spending time with
his wife and two little boys. Yet, as a good psychologist, he confesses to at least two obsessions – as a political
news junkie and as a connoisseur of excellent pizza. After painstaking research into the latter domain, he reports being thoroughly
impressed with New Haven’s pizza.
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