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Darren Good Assistant Professor of Applied Behavioral Science

Darren Good, PhD

Professor of Applied Behavioral Science
Graziadio Business School

Biography

Dr. Good is an award winning teacher and researcher. He received the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence -- the highest teaching award at Pepperdine. In 2014, we was named the Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar, awarded to emerging scholars with promise to make significant contributions. Recently, Dr. Good won the 2021 Best Paper and Scholarly Impact Award at the Journal of Management -- given to the article that most influenced the field of management.

Dr. Good seeks to inspire and enlighten his students beginning with their personal development to help them affect their influence when they embark on their careers. Courses taught by Dr. Good include leadership development, change management, organization behavior, and group dynamics. In addition to preparing students in the classroom, Dr. Good teaches working professionals through his conference presentations and consulting practice.

An active scholar, Dr. Good is widely published in business management and psychological science journals, such as the Journal of Management, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies and Journal of Management and Organization. He also serves as associate editor, organizational psychology for the journal, Frontiers in Psychology.

Dr. Good is considered among the leading scholars addressing the topic of mindfulness in the workplace. Over the past decade, he has helped organize dialogue on this emergent scholarship at conferences including early conversations that brought together scholars to look at the phenomena from multiple disciplines; leading management scholars interfacing with leading neuroscientists and psychologists. Dr. Good also regularly delivers speeches and training on this topic with organizations and their leadership.

In 2015, Dr. Good received the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2014 he was named Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar, as well as a Rothschild Research Fellow for his ongoing scholarly contributions to mindfulness at work. In 2013, he was awarded a Julian Virtue Scholarship in 2013.

Dr. Good holds a doctorate in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University, an MA in psychology from Pepperdine University, and a BA in sociology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He also attended the Gestalt Clinical Training Program at the Gestalt Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.

Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Dr. Good was a manager with Unicast Communications, a division of Bcom3, and held several positions as an account executive for advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and True North Communications.

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University,  PhD in Organizational Behavior. July 2009, Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Pepperdine University, MA in Psychology, December 2002 

  • University of Wisconsin, BA in Sociology, December 1997

  • Gestalt Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, The Gestalt Clinical Training Program, 2006 – 2008

 

Research

  • Lyddy, C. Good, D. Bolino, M. Thompson, P. Stephens, J. (2021) The costs of mindfulness at work: The moderating role of mindfulness in surface acting, self-control depletion, and performance outcomes. Journal Of Applied Psychology.
  • Caporale-Berkowitz, N. Boyer, B. Lyddy, C. Good, D. Rochlen, A. Parent, M. Search Inside Yourself: Investigating the effects of a widely adopted mindfulness-at-work development program (2021). International Journal of Workplace Health Management.
  • Lyddy, C. Good, D. Bolino, M. Thompson, P. Stephens, J. (2021) Where mindfulness falls short. Harvard Business Review.
  • Roche, M., Good, D.J., Tuckey, M., Lyddy, C., Grazier, M., Leroy, H., Hulsheger, U. (Forthcoming). A Swiss
    army knife? How science challenges our understanding of mindfulness in the workplace. Organization
    Dynamics.(49), 100766.
  • Good, D. J., & Lyddy, C. J. (2017). Explaining how mindfulness consistently brings positive workplace
    outcomes. LSE Business Review.
  • Good, D.J., & Cavanaugh, K. (2017). It takes a (virtual) village: Exploring the role of a career community to
    support sensemaking as a proactive socialization practice. Frontiers in Psychology. 8, 97.
  • Good, D. J., Lyddy, C. J., Glomb, T. M., & Bono, J. E. (2016). Mindfulness has big impacts for performance,
    decision-making and career longevity. LSE Business Review.
  • Good, D.J., Lyddy, C., Glomb, T., Bono, J., Brown, K.W., Duffy, M., Baer, R. Brewer, J., & Lazar, S. (2016). Contemplating mindfulness: An integrative review. The Journal of Management. (Forthcoming).
  • McMahon, J., & Good, D.J. (2015). The moral metacognition scale: Development and validation. Ethics and Behavior, (Forthcoming).
  • Good, D.J. (2014). Predicting real-time adaptive performance in a dynamic context. The Journal of Management and Organization, 20 (6), 715-732.
  • Jules, C., & Good, D.J. (2014). Paradox in context: Advances in theory and practice. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 50 (2), 123-126.
  • Good, D.J., & Michel, E. (2013). Individual ambidexterity: Exploring and exploiting in dynamic contexts. The Journal of Psychology, 147(5), 435–453.
  • Sharma, G., & Good, D.J. (2013). The work of middle managers: Sensemaking and sensegiving for creating positive social change. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 49(1), 95-122.
  • Good, D.J., Yeganeh, B., & Yeganeh, R. (2013). Cognitive behavioral executive coaching. In R. Woodman, W. Passmore, & A. Shani (Eds.), Research in Organizational Change and Development. 21, 175-200. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
  • Good, D.J., & Yeganeh, B. (2012). Cognitive agility: Adapting to real-time decision making at work. Organization Development Practitioner, 44(2),13-17.
  • Yeganeh, B., & Good, D.J. (2012). Micro-actions: They impact results. Leadership Excellence, 29(3), 15.
  • Boyatzis, R., Good, D.J., Massa, R. (2012). Predicting financial performance from emotional and social intelligence competencies, cognitive intelligence and personality. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. 19(2), 191-201.
  • Yeganeh, B., & Good, D.J. (2011). Metaphorically speaking: Microblogging as a way to reframe workplace interaction. Organization Development Practitioner, 43(3),12-17.
  • Good, D.J. & Sharma, G. (2010). A little more rigidity: Firming the construct of leader flexibility. Journal of Change Management, 2, 155-174.
  • Good, D.J., Yeganeh, B., & Yeganeh, R. (2010). Cognitive behavioral executive coaching: A structure for increasing flexibility. Organization Development Practitioner, 42(3), 18-23.
  • Good, D.J., & Coombe, D. (2009). Giving multi-source feedback a face-lift. Journal of Change Management, 1, 109-126.
  • Bradbury, H., Good, D.J., & Robson, L. (2005). Relational bases for organizing, In S. Schuman (Eds.), Creating a Culture of Collaboration. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass.

Areas of Expertise

  • Creating Positive Social Change
  • Mindfulness at Work
  • Individual Adaptability at Work
  • Inter-organizational Collaborations

Courses

  • BSCI 607: Personal Development for Leaders
  • BSCI 651: Human Behavior in Organizations

  • OTMT 634: Change Management