Andrew Wefald, Ph.D.

Andrew Wefald, Ph.D., ACC

Associate professor
wefald@ksu.edu, View my CV
Deliberative | Input | Context | Learner | Discipline
Campus office: 221 Leadership Studies Building

Teaching

I love the culture and fellowship at the Staley School, my colleagues are supportive and collaborative. Our students are amazing and I love working with them to develop their leadership capacity.

Current courses

LEAD 212: Introduction to Leadership Concepts
LEAD 350: Culture and Context in Leadership
LEAD 450: Senior Seminar in Leadership Studies

Research and grants

My research interests are mostly around leadership and psychology with a focus on quantitative data research methods. Specific interests include developing meaningful leadership projects for students and creating coaching cultures in the classroom and in the workplace.

Coaching
Leadership coaching
Leadership education and development
Personality and job attitudes

Grant awards

Civic Engagement Fellow, K-State's Center for Engagement and Community Development, 2019-2020
International Research and Exchange reciprocal grant to provide leadership training to teachers in Tanzania, 2020

Wefald, A. J., Benavides, M., & Mestrovich Seay, A. (2022). Learning from leadership capstone projects. Journal of Leadership Education, 21(3). DOI:10.12806/V21/I3/R3 https://journalofleadershiped.org/jole_articles/learning-from-leadership-capstone-projects/
Wefald, A. J. (2022). Coaching, listening, and leadership. Journal of Leadership Studies, 15(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jls.21793
Wefald, A. J., Hornung, M., & Burkhart, T. (2021). Coaching and mentoring in a capstone leadership development program. Journal of Leadership Education, 20(3). DOI: 10.12806/V20/I3/A1 https://journalofleadershiped.org/jole_articles/coaching-and-mentoring-in-a-capstone-leadership-development-program/
Rubin, L. M., Dringenberg, E. A., Lane, J. J., & Wefald, A. J. (2019). Faculty Beliefs about the Nature of Intelligence. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 19(4).
Wefald, A. J., Smith, M. R., Gopalan, N., & Downey, R. G. (2017). Workplace Vigor as a Distinct Positive Organizational Behavior Construct: Evaluating the Construct Validity of the Shirom-Melamed Vigor Measure (SMVM). Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 29(4), 197-220.
Mencl, J., Wefald, A. J., & van Ittersum, K. (2016). The Effects of Interpersonal Skills and Work Engagement on Transformational Leadership and the Well-Being of Leaders. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 37(5), 635-657.
Wefald, A. J., Mills, M. J., Smith, M. R., & Downey, R. G. (2013). Vigorous Groups? An Examination of Vigor at the Dimension Level and its Relationship to Work Attitudes in Teams. Psychology Research, 3(6), 330-344.