August 5-8, 2025

Higher education is at a crossroads. Traditional leadership models are under pressure. Talent retention is shaky. Institutional silos persist. That’s where IOPIA steps in.

This year’s IOPIA Virtual Summit is not your average conference—it’s a powerful gathering of change-ready academic leaders and I/O psychology experts who are transforming the way we lead, collaborate, and thrive in education.

We grant strategies that will impact:

• Presidents, Provosts, and Deans
• Academic Affairs and HR Leaders
• Office of DEI, Faculty Affairs, and Institutional Effectiveness
• Department Chairs, Directors, and Manager-of-Managers
• Organizational Development, Talent Strategy, and Assessment Professionals
   

Whether you're steering culture change, rethinking your succession strategy, or just trying to build better insitutions—you belong here.

We don’t just theorize or bring you a new employee engagement strategy that could possibly fail. We equip you with tools to act. The IOPIA Virtual Summit is a community-powered incubator for innovation in academia. From breakout rooms to thought-leader panels, you’ll walk away with not just insight—but a blueprint.

Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology has long been a game-changer for industries like tech, retail, and beyond, helping companies such as Google, Meta, and Target revolutionize their employee experience and organizational success. Yet, academia is an equally complex and impactful environment, and faces similar challenges that I-O Psychology is uniquely equipped to address. From employee engagement to organizational culture, academic institutions encounter pressures that demand expert-driven, evidence-based solutions tailored to their needs.

The IOPIA Virtual Summit was born out of a mission to bring the proven principles of I-O Psychology into the realm of education. Academic leaders are navigating an evolving landscape, with shifting workforce dynamics, increased emphasis on online education, and greater attention to workforce development. This summit introduces a practical framework to empower leaders to tackle these challenges. By enhancing the employee experience for faculty and staff, institutions can dramatically increase student engagement, improve organizational effectiveness, and advance their mission to innovate through education.

Over the course of the summit, top I-O psychologists will share their research and practical strategies for academic environments, helping leaders implement impactful changes that last. Whether you’re a K-12 administrator, HR leader, vocational center director, or higher education executive, the IOPIA Virtual Summit is the platform designed to equip you with the tools to transform your institution. Together, we’re setting the stage for a thriving academic workforce and a brighter future for education.Each day, leading I-O psychologists will present their research with practical ways to incorporate best practices that will impact your educational institutions and system. We believe this will provide you with a curated, productive, and research-backed set of best practices and ideas on how to improve your academic institution's life. 

Whether you are K-12 Administrators, Vocational Center Directors, HR consultants/representatives, or higher education department leaders, we believe this summit is for you! The Academic I/O is building a team of experts in I-O psychology to present to you the best workplace practices to enhance all academic institutions.