Orin C. Davis, Ph.D.

Self-actualization engineer who makes workplaces great places to work.

New York, New York, United States of America

Research Expertise

Self-Actualization

Optimal Experience (Flow)

Creativity

Mentoring

Hypnosis

Psychiatry and Mental health

Education

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Developmental and Educational Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Complementary and alternative medicine

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Urban Studies

Business and International Management

Innovation

Teamwork

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Human Capital Management

About

Orin Davis earned the first doctorate in positive psychology, and is a self-actualization engineer who enables people to do and be their best. He consults for companies from startups to multinationals on hiring strategies, culture, innovation, diversity/equity/inclusion, and employee well-being, and coaches people at all levels on building self-knowledge and developing personal and professional growth trajectories. As the principal investigator of the Quality of Life Laboratory, he conducts research on flow, creativity, hypnosis, and mentoring. Dr. Davis teaches business at Columbia University and Fordham University, and gives workshops and lectures globally about human capital, creativity and innovation, and positive psychology. He is a startup advisor who helps early-stage companies enhance their value propositions, pitches, culture, and human capital, and writes and speaks avidly about human capital, creativity and innovation, and positive psychology.

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Publications

Amygdala Volume Associated With Alcohol Abuse Relapse and Craving

American Journal of Psychiatry

2008

The Conceptualization of Team Flow

The Journal of Psychology

2018

A Proposed Model for an Optimal Mentoring Environment for Medical Residents: A Literature Review

Academic Medicine

2010

Temporal associative processes revealed by intrusions in paired-associate recall

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

2008

The Application of Team Flow Theory

Flow Experience

2016

Heart-Rate Variability as a Quantitative Measure of Hypnotic Depth

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

2007

Hypnosis for rehabilitation after stroke: six case studies

Contemporary Hypnosis

2006

Developing and Testing the Team Flow Monitor (TFM)

Cogent Psychology

2019

Team Flow

SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research

An Exploratory Pilot Study of Student Learning Experiences in Engineering Technology Courses Designed to Promote Creativity

Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology

2016

Factors That Contribute to the Willingness to Try “Street Hypnosis”

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

2014

The Individual Flow Experience in the Context of Teams

Team Flow

2019

Tossing the Baby With the (Magnetized) Bathwater: Commentary on Jacobson and Colleagues

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

2014

Flow

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible

2020

Impediments to Team Flow Experiences

Team Flow

2019

Team Flow Theory—A Multi-level Perspective

Team Flow

2019

Team Flow in an Organizational Context

Team Flow

2019

Conditional Positive Regard

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

2020

An Introduction to Flow Theory

Team Flow

2019

Applications to Spark Team Flow

Team Flow

2019

Exemplifying Team Flow Experiences

Team Flow

2019

Conditional Positive Regard

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

2017

Promoting the Emergence of Team Flow in Organizations

International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology

2021

Education

Claremont Graduate University

Ph.D., Positive Organizational Psychology / August, 2010

Claremont, California, United States of America

Brandeis University

B.S., Neuroscience / May, 2004

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Experience

Quality of Life Laboratory Consulting

Principal / 2012 — Present

HR Consulting (hiring strategy, DEI, performance management, employee relations, compensation); Startup advising: Clicked (advisory board), Happify (science advisor), Happy Brain Science (science advisor), IdeaCoil; Startup Incubator Mentor: StartEd, CUNYStartups, Brandeis Innovation

illuceo

Senior Consultant / 2022 — 2023

HR Consulting (DEI in recruitment, hiring, employee experience, and development)

Center for Humane Technology

HR Advisor / 2019 — 2019

Advising on hiring strategy to build out the executive, senior, and entry-level teams; facilitated and managed hiring process; organizational development

Vervoe

Head of Behavioral Science / 2018 — 2019

Design general and bespoke hiring tests across a range of skill areas and fields, working with a wide range of companies (from startups to Fortune 500's)

Upgradeable

Chief Science Officer / 2012 — 2017

Conducting field research on interventions aimed at enhancing self-actualization; Integrating and evaluating research across multiple fields to develop the self-actualization canon

Links & Social Media

Research Web Site

Quality of Life Laboratory

ORCID

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