 Dr. Stewart I. Donaldson
Mentor & Coach
Dr. Donaldson has accumulated a wealth of experience during the past two decades mentoring and coaching professionals and graduate students. He has helped develop and improve a wide range of diverse people, teams, projects, programs, communities, and organizations. He has provided these services in the areas of leading and managing complex organizations, organization development consulting, program design and development, organizational research, training and development, and program, personnel, and organizational evaluation.
He has been chair or member of numerous master’s theses and doctoral dissertation committees at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Dr. Donaldson also works with professionals across the country who hold key leadership and evaluation positions, through the highly successful non-residential Certificate of Advanced Study in Evaluation program at CGU.
Dr. Donaldson’s former students and mentees now hold major leadership, research, evaluation, and consulting positions, as well as university professorships across the globe. A sample of research project titles is listed below to provide you with a better understanding of Dr. Donaldson's work in these areas.
A Sample of Doctoral Dissertations Supervised (Chair or Member)
Kappenberg, Erin (1/22/2008)
A Model of Executive Coaching: Key Factors in Coaching Success
Sanguanphant, Chotima (12/20/2007)
Demographic Transition in Thailand: Political Capacity Matters?
Thomas, Craig (5/12/2007)
Assessing Motivational Response Bias: The Influence of Individual, Item, and Situational Characteristics on the Measurement of Self-Reported Health Indicators
Lowe, Marlene (8/28/2006)
The Role of Mentoring on Asian American Professionals' Career Outcomes
Nguyen, Rachel (5/13/2006)
Conflict in Functionally Diverse Teams
Wells, Kimberly (5/13/2006)
Creating Contexts for Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Teams: The Role of Socialization
Maxwell, Beverly (8/29/2005)
Feedback as it Relates to the Development of Leadership Self-Efficacy and Leadership Ability
Malsch, Anna (5/14/2005)
Prosocial Behavior Beyond Borders: Understanding a Psychological Sense of Global Community
Fero, Howard (5/14/2005)
Flow and Cynicism in the Workplace
Weiss, Rachel (5/17/2003)
Antecedents and Consequences of Workplace Serostatus Disclosure Among a Diverse, Urban Sample of Employed HIV-Infected People
James, Inga (5/17/2003)
Employees as stakeholders: an examination of person-organization fit and corporate social performance
Bledsoe, Katrina (1/21/2003)
Effectiveness of Drug Prevention Programs Designed for Adolescents of Color: A Meta-analysis
Mersman, Jennifer (9/3/2002)
Balancing Emphasis in Organizational Culture: How Focusing on Customers, Employees, and Profit Affects Finanical Performance
Jones, Michelle (9/3/2002)
Conceptualizing Satisfaction in Performance More Broadly: What Can Be Gained by the Addition of Life Satisfaction and Citizenship Behavior
Menkes, Justin (5/18/2002)
What Do Structured Interviews Actually Measure? A Construct Validity Study
Groves, Kevin (5/18/2002)
An Examination of Leader Social Intelligence and Follower Openness to Organizational Change as Key Components of Charismatic Leadership
Cabrera, Saki (9/4/2001)
An Examination of the Influence of Acculturative Stress on Substance Use and Related Maladaptive Behavior Among Latino Youth
Davidson, Elizabeth (9/4/2001)
The Meta-Learning Organization: A Model and Methodology for Evaluating Organizational Learning Capacity
Nofsinger, Chrismon (5/12/2001)
Metaphors and Management: The Use and Usefulness of Metaphors in Organizations
Brown, William (1/18/2000)
Organizational Effectiveness in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations: The Influence of the Board of Directors
Gillson, Lynette (1/18/2000)
A Mandate to Serve Expelled Students: An Evaluation of the Implementation of Assembly Bill 922 in a California School District
Farber, Stuart (8/31/1999)
Corporate Entrepreneurship within the Small Single Business Firm
Schaffner, Eric (1/19/1999)
Integrating Acquisitions: Initial Integration Dynamics Following a Corporate Acquisition
Moore, Christine (9/1/1998)
Understanding Voluntary Employee Turnover Within the New Workplace Paradigm: A Test of an Integrated Model
Grant-Vallone, Elisa (5/16/1998)
Work and Family Conflict: The Importance of Supportive Work Environments
McKenna, Robert (5/16/1998)
The Managerial Control and Empowerment Paradox: A Competing Values Approach to Effectiveness of Small Service Organizations
Smart, Geoffrey (5/16/1998)
Management Assessment Methods in Venture Capital: Toward a Theory of Human Capital Valuation
Jennex, Murray (11/21/1996)
Organizational Memory Effects on Productivity
Sherwood, Deborah (9/4/1997)
The Effect of Workplace and Restaurant Smoking Bans on the Perceived Risk of Secondhand Smoke: Do People Feel Safer?
Ensher, Ellen (5/17/1997)
The Effect of Social Exchanges on Diverse Mentoring Relationships and Career Outcomes
Kaufman, Karen (5/11/1996)
Choosing Unconventional Medicine: Predictors of Choice and Experiences of Individuals with HIV/AIDS
Kaneshiro, Eric (5/11/1996)
Multiculturalism and the Model Minority: Japanese Americans' Ethnic Identity and Psychosocial Adjustment
Kent, Douglas (5/11/1996)
Application of Health Behavior Theory to Increase Use of Advance Directives Among Individuals with HIV Disease
Derzon, James (1/15/1996)
A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Various Antecedent Behaviors, Characteristics, and Experiences for Predicting Later Violent Behavior
Wilson, David (5/13/1995)
The Role of Method in Treatment Effect Estimates: Evidence from Psychological, Behavioral and Educational Meta-Analyses
A Sample of Professional Certificate Projects Supervised
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Current Student Research Projects
Positive Organizational Psychology Engages Organizational Cynicism
Happiness Orientations, Work-Related Flow, and Performance at Work
The State of Evaluation Practice in Foundations
Evaluative Culture and Organizational Performance
Diversity and High Performing Teams
Asian Mentoring Networks and Career Development
Executive Coaching and Career Promotions
Leadership and Coaching in Thailand
African American Male Mentoring and Careers
Evaluative Culture and Innovation
Work Engagement
Effects of Trust in the Workplace
University-based Evaluation Training & Education
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