Denise Potosky, Ph.D. Professor of Management and Organization, dxp16@psu.edu
Denise Potosky, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Organization at the Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies.
Dr. Potosky is an innovative researcher and educator with expertise in management, professional development, and assessment. With more than 20 years’ experience in driving strategic change, leading teams, engaging students, and designing learning tools, courses, and programs, she is an internationally recognized scholar dedicated to developing, educating, and mentoring current and future organizational leaders.
She maintains an active research agenda along with graduate and executive teaching and a speaking engagements. She was the recipient of a 2011 Fulbright Research grant to live and work in Alsace, France, where she conducted several research projects associated with international HRM, intercultural adjustment, European perspectives on personnel selection and testing, and organizational change, leadership, and culture. An important theme in her research is measurement that leads to greater understanding of people in organizations. Within this theme she has examined the medium used in assessments (e.g., web-based tests), the validity and adverse impact potential of certain types of selection tests and processes, and how people themselves learn and change as they move within and between organizational and cultural groups. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, Personnel Psychology, the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and several other journals and edited books, and she serves on the editorial board for the journal, Human Resource Management Review, and La Revue de Gestion des Ressources Humaines, a French HRM research journal. She currently serves as the founding director the Management Research Kitchen at Penn State Great Valley.
She has served in a variety of leadership roles within the university and academia, and has worked as a facilitator, invited speaker, and research consultant with leaders in a number of public institutions as well as private business organizations. She has led numerous seminars for faculty, research groups, and students in many different types of programs at institutions in the U.S. and internationally. She currently teaches graduate courses in global management, human resource management, organizational behavior, people analytics, and leadership communication at Penn State, where she directs graduate certificates in Human Resource Management and Leading in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.