Dr. Gary Namie
Gary Namie, PhD is a social psychologist with a long record of teaching graduate and undergraduate university courses in management and psychology — at Scripps College, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, University of San Francisco and others. He won national and campus teaching awards. He was also corporate manager for two regional hospital systems as director of internal training and consulting services. He began consulting to organizations as The Work Doctor®.
Gary is:
- Widely regarded as North America’s foremost authority on Workplace Bullying, Abusive Workplace Conduct
- Social Psychologist
- Award winning university teacher, American Psychological Association
- Author of academic articles & book chapters
- Former professor of management and psychology, 21 year academic
- Former director of organizational development in multi-facility healthcare systems
- Researcher, author of five scientific U.S. Workplace Bullying Surveys & descriptive online surveys
- Director, Workplace Bullying Institute, established 1997
- Consultant to organizations for decades
- Spokesperson for media on workplace bullying/abusive conduct — 1,200+ interviews
- Co-designer & faculty for Workplace Bullying University® Training for Professionals
- Expert witness in state and federal courts for plaintiffs and defense
- National director of campaign to enact the Healthy Workplace Bill
Together, the Namies wrote the popular books, BullyProof Yourself At Work (DoubleDoc Press, 1999) , The Bully At Work (Sourcebooks, 2009) and The Bully-Free Workplace (Wiley, 2011).
They also publish academic journal articles and book chapters based on WBI research. They’ve published in the Journal of Consulting Psychology, International Journal of Communication, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Ivey Business Journal, Journal of Employee Assistance; and contributing chapters in the books Destructive Organizational Communication and Workplace Bullying: Development in Theory, Research and Practice. They wrote three chapters for Workplace Bullying and Mobbing in the United States, M. Duffy & D.C. Yamada (Eds.). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press. 2018.
