Tannenbaum Begins Role as SIOP President

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) installed SIOP Fellow Scott Tannenbaum as its president following the 2025 SIOP Annual Conference held April 2-5, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.

SIOP uses a presidential trio in its leadership format, so Tannenbaum was elected in 2023 and has been serving as President-Elect since April 2024. Following his current presidential term, he will serve one year as Past President.

“I’m proud to be an I-O psychologist and have spent my career actively engaged in the practice, science, and teaching of I-O psychology,” Tannenbaum said. “I’ve served as a tenured professor, led a consulting/research firm for 30 years, and trained students and practitioners in academia and industry. Collectively, I hope this has provided me with a balanced, inclusive view of our field.”

Tannenbaum’s candidate Goals Statement focused on three areas: helping members stay connected and involved, keeping SIOP externally relevant, and helping SIOP stay internally strong.

• Connected and Involved: We need to continue to find ways to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experiences and avoid being overly siloed. We can only do that by creating inclusive, welcoming ways of bringing people together – both in person and digitally.
• Externally Relevant: When people think of humans at work, we want them to think of SIOP. Our reputation is important because it influences the receptivity of leaders and policy makers, funding opportunities for our researchers, and the job market for all of us.
• Internally Strong: Pragmatically, we need to make sound financial decisions, equip our administrative office to serve our members effectively, and diversify our revenue streams to remain financially stable.

Tannenbaum has been an active member of SIOP since its inception, and has served on the Fellowship Committee, the Program Committee, and the Editorial Board of the Professional Practices series. He also co-chaired a SIOP Leading Edge Consortium and was elected and served a three-year term as SIOP’s Financial Officer.

SIOP Fellow Alexis Fink is Past President. SIOP Fellow Richard Landers is President-Elect.

About I-O Psychology

I-O psychology is a dynamic and growing field that addresses work-related issues at the individual and organizational level. I-O psychologists apply research that improves the well-being and performance of people and the organizations that employ them. This involves everything from workforce planning, employee selection, and leader development to studying job attitudes and job motivation, implementing work teams, improving diversity and inclusion, and facilitating organizational change.

About SIOP

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the premier professional association for the science and practice of I-O psychology, has nearly 9,000 members in the U.S. and abroad. I-O psychology students, educators, researchers, and practitioners study, teach, research and apply knowledge that improves the well-being and performance of people and the organizations that employ them. This involves everything from workforce planning, employee selection, and leader development to studying job attitudes and job motivation, implementing work teams, improving diversity and inclusion, and facilitating organizational change. In addition to being an independent organization, SIOP represents Division 14 of the American Psychological Association and is an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psychological Science.

For more information, email SIOP Senior Brand and Content Strategist Amber Stark at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology at astark@siop.org.

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