Dr. William Nasby

EDUCATION / PROFILE
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PhD, Personality and Developmental Psychology, Harvard University
Minor in Psychometrics and Multivariate Statistics

Received numerous Excellence and Innovation awards in research, service, and teaching/training.
Awarded 1st endowed Chair of Psychology, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.
Achieved "citation classic status" on multiple research publications in top-ranked psychology journals.
Author of "the new gold standard of case study research," book-length publication in special issue of Journal of Personality, showcasing integrative (quantitative and qualitative) study of leadership with Dodge Morgan, entrepreneur and record-breaking solo circumnavigator.

Affiliations: American Psychological Association; American Psychological Society; International Neural Network Society; Society for Chaos and Complexity Theory in Psychology/Life Sciences; Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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Chairman and Research Director
• Co-founded nonprofit organization to study leadership, applying the methodology used with Dodge Morgan.
• Conduct 5-year studies and analyses of leaders excelling in their fields; provide training, education, and mentorship in return. Participants include global finance, corporate, community, and business leaders.

PACIFIC GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Palo Alto, CA
1987 - 2001
Professor
• Conducted extensive research and received numerous awards for excellence and innovation.
• Developed and taught graduate-level courses in personality, psychopathology, social cognition, alternative methodologies, and multivariate statistics. Chaired numerous committees in execution of change management policies.
• Proposed radical revision for faculty/dissertation students’ direction; contributed pivotally to school becoming one of few free-standing PhD programs in clinical psychology accredited at the national level by the American Psychological Association.
• Rewrote faculty handbook; helped develop joint doctoral program between school and Stanford University.

BOSTON COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, Chestnut Hill, MA
1981 - 1987
Assistant Professor
• Designed and facilitated undergraduate and graduate psychology courses, three of which won excellence awards.
• Only junior-level faculty member specially permitted to chair department committees.
• Only 1 of 2 junior-level professors to participate in interdisciplinary initiative to teach outside their respective departments.

With over 20 years of experience as a professor, first at a major university and then at a doctoral program in clinical psychology (APA-accredited), Dr. Nasby received numerous awards for excellence and innovation both in teaching and in research. His teaching awards include courses in Research Methodology, Introduction to Statistics, Intermediate Statistics, Multivariate Statistics, and Alternative Methodologies.

Dr. Nasby has successfully mentored and chaired the dissertation committees of over 100 graduate students, and for many other students he has served as a committee member primarily in the role of Research Methodologist and Statistical Expert. In addition, Dr. Nasby has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals (many co-authored with his former students and many of which have now attained status as "citation classics"). Almost all of his publications have applied one or more of the multivariate test procedures and have appeared in top-ranked psychology journals. Numerous peer reviews have evaluated his research publications as "methodologically elegant and sophisticated."

In addition to expertise in quantitative methods, Dr. Nasby has also become recognized for his contributions to single case methodology in personality and lifespan developmental research. Most notably, Dr. Nasby co-authored a book with one of his graduate students, The life voyage of a solo circumnavigator: Integrating theoretical and methodological perspectives, which appeared as a special issue of the Journal of Personality in 1997. Hailed as "the new gold standard of case study research” in personality and "a model of how lives should be studied,” the book reported a 10-year-long, qualitative and quantitative investigation of Dodge Morgan, a highly successful business leader and entrepreneur, who in 1985-1986 completed a record-breaking, solo circumnavigation of the world under sail.

Publication of this study, which attracted the attention of several entrepreneurs, led to funding that allowed Dr. Nasby to co-found in 1997 the Character and Personality Research Institute, where he served as Chief Executive and Research Director for over 12 years. The research institute, a nonprofit organization, studies leadership, applying the mixed (qualitative and quantitative) methodology used with Dodge Morgan. More specifically, the institute conducts five-year intensive case studies and analyses of leaders excelling in their fields, providing in exchange training, education, and mentorship. Participants, currently numbering almost 100, include exemplary leaders, mostly from the business and corporate arenas.     

Recently retired and seeking to apply his extensive knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methodologies gained from careers that span both academia and business, Dr. Nasby once again advises and mentors graduate students in the design, implementation, and completion of their dissertations.

Scope:

Psychology (General)
Personality
Life-span Development (aka “Adult Psycho-development”)
Psychological Assessment (esp. Personality Assessment)
Psychological Testing (esp. Personality Testing)
Psychological Measurement (including test construction)
Leadership
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Applied Multivariate Statistics
Clinical Psychology

CLIENT FEEDBACK

"When I came across your website, I was in desperate need of help with the Methods section of my dissertation.  I had difficulty finding a consultant with expertise in the procedures I needed help with.  Not only was Dr. Nasby proficient, but he exceeded my expectations with his ability to explain complicated statistical procedures.  At the proposal, my chair was very impressed with my knowledge. In fact, she raved that I knew the statistical concepts well enough to teach!  I am very pleased with the service Dr. Nasby has provided and will continue to use your services throughout my career." B.T.Z., PsyD candidate, Los Angeles, CA