Dr. Gary Latham

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Dr. Gary Latham's work focuses on overcoming learned helplessness and embracing, rather than resisting disruption, to create a strong and confident team. He is the President of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Toronto.

After hearing Gary Latham's presentation, teams will move even closer towards creating their own climate of trust and leaders will deeply understand the importance of fairness and consistency in building a healthy work environment, the change process. It’s like life itself, evolving each second of every day. As a leading expert in the psychology of work Gary Latham applies proven scientific research to your workplace. Latham coaches us through the every-day change processes professionally and personally. After all, it’s impossible to separate them.

His co-authored books include: Increasing Productivity Through Performance Appraisal; A Theory of Goal Setting and Task Performance; Developing and Training Human Resources in Organization; Goal Setting: A Motivational Technique That Works, and Skills for Managerial Success.

Gary Latham is the only recipient of both the awards for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession (1998) and to Psychology as a Science (2002) from the society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Latham received his B.A. in Experimental Psychology from Dalhousie University, his M.S. in Social-Industrial Psychology from Georgia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Akron.

Clients Comments

“Gary Latham is outstanding and entertaining and people leave with practical, useful techniques for coaching for enhanced performance. It even helps with teens!”
Lynda Shephard, Project Manager, Organizational Design, Ontario Ministry of Labour.