About

AT A GLANCE:
Founder & Principal Consultant, Leadership Arts & Sciences
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University

RESEARCH AREAS:
• Power and Influence
• Leadership and Development
• Military-to-Civilian Career Transition and Veteran Employment
• Influence Operations

BIOGRAPHY:
Peter J. Reiley, PhD, is an organizational psychologist and behavioral scientist specializing in leadership development and influence. He is the founder and Principal Consultant of Leadership Arts & Sciences, where he advises senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies and government agencies on evidence-based leadership and workforce strategy. He also serves as an adjunct professor in Penn State’s Psychology of Leadership graduate program.

A retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, Dr. Reiley served 21 years in roles ranging from managing space launch programs to enabling Special Operations Forces in global influence efforts. He was Chief of Global Research and Assessments for Psychological Operations at U.S. Special Operations Command and held faculty appointments at Joint Special Operations University and the U.S. Air Force Academy, teaching behavioral sciences and leadership.

Dr. Reiley co-founded a national nonprofit that advanced veteran employment research and informed employer hiring and support programs, serving eight years as Vice Chairman of the Board. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Society for Military Psychology. His work has received national awards from all three organizations for research, education, and practice. He holds a PhD in industrial-organizational psychology from Penn State and has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed works on leadership, influence, and the military-to-civilian career transition. 

PUBLICATIONS:
Linking Leader Power Use to Performance: The Mediating Role of Follower Satisfaction and Commitment
Journal of Management & Organization

Leader and Character Development Through Ethics Education
Journal of Character and Leadership Development

We (Might) Want You: Expectations of Veterans’ General Competence and Leadership
Current Research in Social Psychology

Ethics Matter: Moderating Leaders’ Power Use and Followers’ Citizenship Behaviors
Journal of Business Ethics

Physical Courage Predicts Relevant Outcomes in Associated Contexts: The Creation of a Measure and Empirical Analysis Into the Construct Journal of Business Research
Journal of Business Research

Special Operations: Out of the Shadows - Psychological Operations to Counter Online Radicalization
Lynne Rienner Publishers

CONNECT / FOLLOW:
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