THE LOV CENTER:
OUR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Through our Leader and Organization Vitality Center (LOV Center), we bridge the gap between academic research and the business world by leveraging the expertise of top researchers and scientists to educate organizations and create custom vitality leadership programs for leaders, teams and organizations by collecting, analyzing, measuring, and evaluating data.

Our goal is to make thought leadership and cutting-edge research easily accessible to organizations and provide more opportunities for applied research. We hope to continue to help elevate organizations through bringing the academic rigor of research and evaluation into more organizations across the globe.

RESEARCH

In partnership with Claremont University’s Leader and Organization Vitality Lab (LOV Lab), we provide organizations the ability to do internal research with academic standards and the opportunity to help drive research agendas for the future of work. We provide organizations access to the most current research and validated scales. Learn more about the LOV Lab here.

EDUCATION

We provide opportunities to hear directly from thought leaders around the world about the science behind leadership, human thriving, executive coaching, connected teams, and positive organizational cultures.

MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION

We partner directly with the Claremont Evaluation Center (CEC) and The Evaluators Institute (TEI) to provide tailored, state-of-the art measurement, monitoring, and evaluation services for all the LOV Center projects to help make them as successful as possible, and to make sure their impact is rigorously documented. The CEC and TEI have provided measurement, monitoring, and evaluation services to more than 200 different organizations during the past two decades.

LOV CENTER
RESEARCH TEAM

Stewart Donaldson

  • Stewart Donaldson is a Distinguished University Professor and Executive Director of the Claremont Evaluation Center at Claremont Graduate University. He is deeply committed to improving lives through positive psychology research and education. He is Co-Founder of the first Ph.D. and research focused masters programs in positive psychology at Claremont Graduate University, and mentors many graduate students specializing in positive psychology and evaluation science. Professor Donaldson has also been honored with many career achievement awards for his research and evaluation science contributions including the 2021 IPPA Fellow Award, 2019 IPPA Work and Organizations Division Exemplary Research to Practice Award, and the 2019 SIPPA Inspiring Mentor Award.

  • Jamie Shapiro is a leading authority on connecting leadership performance and wellbeing and the bestselling author of Brilliant, Be the Leader Who Shines Brightly Without Burning Out. She is a MCC executive leadership coach, nutritionist, professional speaker, researcher, facilitator, and PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University in Positive Organizational Psychology. Having experienced burnout in the corporate world, she understands the incredible pressure we face in our lives and the difficulty in staying connected to professional and personal goals in demanding environments. Jamie's research focus is in leader vitality. She has a passion to help leaders serve at their full capacity without burning out. Through her research in leader vitality, positive leadership, and relational energy, she hopes to continue to teach leaders and organizations the importance of leader self-care as a foundation for leadership peak performance.

  • Executive and leadership development coach, consultant, speaker, and professor, Dr. Laurie Addison is an expert in organizational leadership focusing on positive change management, positive organizational psychology, and coaching. Laurie has been in leadership and executive roles developing high performing teams and delivering results since 1990 within global, multi-billion dollar/euro, publicly-traded corporations and private equity mid-sized companies. Laurie has a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, a Post-doctorate Fellowship from Claremont Graduate University in Positive Organizational Psychology, and an MBA/Masters of Business Administration from Regis University. Her mission is to bring forward resilient, empathetic, inclusive, globally connected, systems-minded, optimistic, authentic, and purposeful business leaders through teaching, coaching, consulting, and facilitation of contemporary leadership topics to top-level leaders to not only strengthen the individual, but the entire organization through the “positive leadership ripple effect.”

  • Vicki Cabrera is an organizational and positive psychology consultant, researcher, and evaluator who is passionate about bringing out the best in people and organizations. Her evidence-based work focuses on improving well-being, optimizing performance and development, and achieving and measuring positive outcomes and social impact for organizations in the U.S., the Philippines, and internationally. Vicki also draws on 19 years of diverse experience (program & product management, nonprofit management, teaching/training, research, consulting) with a variety of organizations across the nonprofit, education, social enterprise, business, and public sectors in the U.S and Asia. Prior to consulting, she co-founded a school for social entrepreneurship in the Philippines and managed programs for the College Board and Dress for Success in the U.S. She is a PhD student in Positive Organizational Psychology and Evaluation & Applied Research Methods at Claremont Graduate University where she received a Stuart Oskamp Fellowship. She also holds an MPA in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy from New York University.

  • Cecelia is an International Coaching Federation credentialed leadership coach, and she creates and conducts customized workshops incorporating concepts from positive psychology, leadership development, organizational culture, organizational behavior, organizational change, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and more. Prior to becoming a professional leadership coach, she worked for over 20 years in various leadership roles in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries including clinical training & education, sales, marketing, and human resources. Cecelia is also an inclusive educator and has taught multiple courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Cecelia is currently a PhD candidate in positive organizational psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where she researches human flourishing, wellbeing, and belonging at work. Cecelia has a lifelong passion for understanding how leaders can create organizational spaces where all people feel a deep sense of meaning and belonging, and where they can thrive professionally and personally.

  • Dr. Jessica Diaz serves as the director of the Human Resource Management program and Assistant Professor of organizational psychology and statistics at Claremont Graduate University. Diaz is a scholar-practitioner dedicated to implementing scientific, evidence-based practices to help employees thrive and organizations perform. Her research and practice work focuses on identifying the psychological mechanisms and organizational practices that shape the employee experience. Throughout her time at CGU, she has published and presented multiple works focused on psychological safety, equity and inclusion, employee engagement, organizational justice, leader development, and research methods. Dr. Diaz is also an adjunct researcher with the Center for Creative Leadership, where she published work on the evolution of technology-enabled leader assessment.

  • Bergsveinn Olafsson is a PhD student in psychology at Claremont Graduate University in the USA. He has a MSc degree in Applied Positive psychology and Coaching psychology from the University of East London and BSc in psychology from the University of Reykjavik. In recent years, Beggi has used positive psychology and coaching psychology to help successful individuals, executives, teams and companies develop and reach their goals faster. He is a professional speaker, an author of two books (in translation from Icelandic), administered one of the most popular podcasts in Iceland and is a former champion of Iceland in soccer.