Jonathan H. Westover

Dr. Jonathan H. Westover is a best-selling and award-winning author and podcaster, a TopVoice in HR, Innovation, Leadership, Culture, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, Change Management, and Education (Thinkers360), ranked Top 30 in Organizational Culture and Management (Global Gurus), in the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership (LeadersHum), and ScholarGPS ranks him the #9 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. Jonathan is an educational evangelist, a philanthropist, an angel investor, and an entrepreneur. He is founder and CEO of Human Capital Innovations, the host/producer of multiple shows on the HCI Podcast Network, Chief Academic and Learning Officer of the HCI Academy, and Managing Editor of the Human Capital Leadership Review. As an OD/HR/Leadership consultant, he has worked with organizations across the globe. Current Professional Roles Academic: Jonathan is Associate Dean and Director of HR undergrad and graduate academic programs at WGU. Additionally, he is a doctoral faculty at the University of Arizona Global Campus and part of the Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies graduate program at Creighton University. Previously, he was Chair and Professor of Organizational Leadership and Change at UVU, Academic Director of the Center for Social Impact, Director of Academic Service-Learning in the Innovation Academy, and Industry Impact Fellow in the Women in Business Impact Lab. Dr. Westover has been published widely in academic journals, books, and practitioner publications. At UVU he was also an affiliate faculty member in the MBA, MPA, and Integrated Studies programs and he has been a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs. Consulting: Jonathan is an experienced organizational leadership, people management, and organizational development consultant (Founder and CEO at Human Capital Innovations). For two decades, he has worked to help transform organizations across the globe. He is also the producer and host of the Human Capital Innovations (HCI) Podcast and Managing Editor of Human Capital Leadership Magazine. Previously, Jonathan was an external consultant with the firm Targeted Learning, and an internal consultant in the Human Resource Development office at Brigham Young University, in the corporate Organizational Development office at InterContinental Hotels, and in the corporate Organizational Development office at LG Electronics in Gumi, South Korea. Thought Leadership: Jonathan is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, the Forbes Coaches Council, a Non-Resident Fellow in Social and Development Policy with the Nkafu Policy Institute (part of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation), a member of the HR Certification Institute CEO Advisory Council and past member of the board of directors, member of the Humantelligence Scientific Advisory Board, Chair and Director of the Corporate Division of the Global Listening Centre, a CIPD Academic Fellow, and an Advance HE Senior Fellow. Jonathan has been published widely and quoted as a management expert in popular and professional media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as Forbes, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, MarketWatch, HR.com, SHRM.org, HRCI.org, The Washington Post, and USA Today). Highlights of Past Academic and Professional Roles and Distinctions • Visiting Academic at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford (2019) • Fulbright Scholar and AMINEF Senior Scholar at Atma Jaya Catholic University in Jakarta, Indonesia (2018) • Educational Development Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada (2018) • Learning Innovation Research Fellow at the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia (2017) • Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center in Washington (2017) • POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii (2016) • Visiting Scholar in the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (2015) • Fulbright Scholar at Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus (2012) Education Jonathan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology: Research and Analysis (with minors in management and Korean) from the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences and his Master of Public Administration degree (emphases in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management) from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology (emphases in International Political Economy and Work and Organizations) from the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah. He has also received graduate certificates in demography and higher education teaching from the University of Utah, as well as other certificates and specializations from universities like Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and more.