Consultant Profile
Dr. E. Kevin Kelloway, Ph. D.
E. Kevin Kelloway holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health Psychology and is Professor of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University. A native of New Waterford NS, he is a graduate of Dalhousie (B.Sc. Honours Psychology), Saint Mary’s (M.Sc. in Applied Psychology) and Queen’s (Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology) Universities. After teaching for eight years in the Psychology Department at the University of Guelph, he returned to Saint Mary’s as Professor of Management and the inaugural director of the PhD program in Management. He was the founding director of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and a founding principal of the Centre for Leadership Excellence at Saint Mary’s.
In 2007 he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow at the CN Centre and on 2008 he moved to the Psychology Department as the Canada Research Chair (currently in his second, seven-year appointment). A prolific researcher he has authored over 150 articles and book chapters in addition to 14 books. He is a recipient of the SMU President’s Award for Research Excellence (2009), the Distinguished Contribution to IO Psychology award (2015 from Section 14 of CPA) and the Distinguished Psychologist in Management Award (2016) from the Society of Psychologists in Management. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Canadian Psychological Association, the International Association of Applied Psychology and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
Kevin is Past Chair of the Canadian Society for IO Psychology and Past President of the Canadian Psychological Association – Canada’s national association for psychology. He is the incoming editor of the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science and is Associate Editor for the journals the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance as well as serving on several other editorial boards.
He is a Principal in Evidence Based Solutions – a consultancy working with private and public sector clients on a variety of issues related to leadership, occupational health and safety, employee attitudes and HR management.