George Banks

Appointments

• Faculty
  • Co-director, The Center for Leadership Science, 2023 to present.
  • Co-director, Charlotte AI Institute 2025 to present.
  • Chair, Department of Management, Belk College of Business 2021-2025
  • Deputy Title IX coordinator, Office of Civil Rights and Title IX, UNC Charlotte, 2022 to present
  • Faculty member of the Organizational Science PhD program, 2015 to present
  • Faculty member of the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program, 2019 to present
  • Affiliate faculty of the School of Data Science
  • Affiliate faculty of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Editorial
  • Editor-in-Chief, The Leadership Quarterly
• Advisory
  • Chair, Board of Directors (2024-2025), Center for Open Science
  • Executive Board, Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA)
  • Co-chaired the UNC Charlotte Strategic Planning Committee: Plan runs 2021-2031

Highlights:

• External grant funding since 2019: $2,569,912
• Major gifts to Center for Leadership Science since July 1, 2023: $1.1 million
• Google Scholar Citations in 2023: 2,268
• Publications: More than 80 publications, including journal articles in top-tier outlets, such as Science, Nature Human Behavior, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Journal.
• Major awards:
  • Winner of Charlotte Business Journal’s 2022 40 under 40 Award
  • Recipient of the 2017 Sage Publications/CARMA Early Career Award from the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management.
  • Academy of Management Journal: 1 of 4 2016 Best Paper Award Nominees
  • The Leadership Quarterly/Center for Creative Leadership 2021 Best Paper
  • The Leadership Quarterly/Center for Creative Leadership: 1^st runner up for 2018 Best Paper
  • The Leadership Quarterly/Center for Creative Leadership: 1^st runner up for 2017 Best Paper
  • The Leadership Quarterly/Center for Creative Leadership 2016 Best Paper
• Media attention: Featured work in popular media outlets, such as Psychology Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, as well as National Public Radio (NPR).
• Editorial boards: Currently serves as a the Editor-in-Chief at The Leadership Quarterly, special issue editor at Organizational Research Methods and is currently on the editorial boards at Organizational Research Methods and Journal of Business and Psychology (former boards include Journal of Management and Human Resource Management Review).
• Consulting: Consultant for HRinterax, Inc. (Shelton, CT) and Human Technology, Inc. (McLean, VA). Provided services for diverse clients, such as the Missile Defense Agency, the Forest Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Patent and Trade Office, as well as the Foreign Agriculture Service.

Education:

Ph.D. Virginia Common Wealth University

Curriculum Vitae

Favorite Articles:

Archer, Allison M.N. & Cinfy D. Kam. in press. She Is the Chair(man): Gender, Language, and Leadership. The Leadership Quarterly.

Ernst, B., Banks, G. C., Loignon, A. C., Frear, K. A., Williams, C. E., Arciniega, L. M., Gupta, R. K., Kodydek, G., Subramanian, D. (in press). Investigating charismatic leadership and signaling theory: A prospective meta-analysis in five countries. The Leadership Quarterly.

Research Interests:

• Leadership and teams
• AI
• Ethics
• Research methods and statistics (e.g., meta-analysis, open science)