The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations currently consists of eight core members, 53 individual members, and five organizational members. Drs. Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss currently serve as co-chairs of the Consortium. Members of the Consortium are individuals who are actively engaged in research on emotional intelligence in organizations. They are drawn from academia, government, the corporate sector, and private consulting.

Organizational and corporate members have made a commitment to furthering high quality research on the application of emotional intelligence in organizational settings. The current organizational members are: American Express, the HayGroup, the Federal Office of Personnel Management, the Liautaud Graduate School of Business at the University of Illinois Chicago, and the Lennick Aberman Group.

Organizational Members

If you think your organization might benefit by becoming a member of the consortium.

The Consortium currently includes six organizational members, and we hope to gradually expand the number during the coming year. Organizational members send one or two representatives to Consortium meetings, which are held twice a year and take up about 1-1/2 days. These meetings provide rich opportunities for organizational members to:

• Learn more about emotional intelligence from the leading experts in the field.
• Get the latest research findings on emotional intelligence first, months before they reach the public domain.
• Get solutions to many current business problems and the latest tools and templates in this area.
• Find out what works and learn about examples of best practices and models.
• Get access to data that will help members make the case for emotional intelligence-related programs in their companies.
• Get help in supplementing their shrinking HR staffs.
• Build relationships with colleagues who are doing model work in this field.
• Become part of a knowledge community where people can explore and learn more about emotional intelligence, and where interactive discovery and intellectual inquiry are stressed.
• In addition, member companies will be able to initiate research projects on how Emotional Intelligence can help improve the bottom line - to help frame the questions as well as get the answers.

Organizational members will be companies or public sector organizations with at least 10,000 employees. (Smaller companies also will be welcome if they already have done high quality work on assessment and development of emotional intelligence.) The organizational members will pay an annual membership fee to help cover administrative costs.

If you think your organization might benefit by becoming a member of the consortium or to get additional information about becoming an organizational member of the Consortium, contact Cary Cherniss, co-chair of the Consortium.

How to Apply for Individual Membership

If you feel that you meet the criteria listed below and are interested in being considered for individual membership in the Consortium please contact Robert Emmerling.

Criteria for Membership

1. Has published empirical research on one or more of the competencies associated with emotional intelligence. By "research" we mean posing a question or hypothesis and then collecting and analyzing data -- quantitative or qualitative -- designed to answer the question or test the hypothesis. Papers presented at conferences can be counted as "publications" if they report on empirical research and the conference submissions are "refereed."
2. Has published several articles or books on the topic (i.e., one is not enough).
3. Currently is doing research or interventions related to emotional intelligence in organizations;
4. Is passionate about promoting emotional intelligence through research.
5. Has expertise that enhances the Consortium's capabilities.
6. Is open-minded.

Richard Boyatzis
Robert Caplan
Cary Cherniss
Vanessa Druskat
Daniel Goleman
Kathy Kram
Lyle Spencer, Jr.
Roger Weissberg

Organizational Members

Susan Ashford
Neal Ashkanasy
James Bailey
Reuven Bar-On
Bénédicte Gendron
Shankargouda Bharamanaikar

Geetu Bharwaney
Howard E. Book
Patricia Bravo
David R. Caruso
Kathy Cavallo
Peter Chen
Marie Dasborough
Catherine Daus
Michael Edwardson
Robert Emmerling
Robert Jones
Peter Jordan
Stuart Kantor
Mark Kriger
Albert Liau
John Liptak
Roy Lubit
Carl Marci
Moïra Mikolajczak
Estelle M. Morin
Jerry Mount
Tom Neil
Ioannis Nikolaou
Ken Nowack
Mary Utne O'Brien
Ben Palmer
Janet Patti
Anthony T. Pescosolido
Kenneth S. Rhee
Helen Reiss
Marian Ruderman
Fabio Sala
Peter Salovey
Nicola Schutte
Craig R. Seal
Radha R. Sharma
Shailendra Singh
Mark Slaski
Robin Stern
Scott Taylor
David Van Rooy
Maria Vakola
Richard M. Vardaris
Sue Vickers-Thompson
Redford Williams
Steven Wolff

Staff Members

Melissa Extein

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