Date of Conferral

5-8-2025

Date of Award

May 2025

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Psychology

Advisor

Amy Hakim

Abstract

Mayer and Salovey, seminal researchers of emotional intelligence (EI), indicated that the ability measures of EI are still evolving, and the mental abilities involved in EI remain to be determined. Organizational leaders should understand this intention as the key to developing EI and personal mastery, resting firmly upon attaining accurate self-awareness as a prerequisite for human behavior. The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological analysis was to gain an understanding of the socially constructed realities of the lived experiences of organizational leaders and organizational development specialists who have completed Ennea International’s 5 Lens Development Platform (5LDP). Bandura’s social cognitive theory grounded this study. Four participants were purposively selected by applying convenience and snowballing methodologies to identify a small homogenous group. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with open-ended questions. Five themes emerged from the analysis, including that the 5LDP provides participants with a valid working platform for integrating EI-learned principles, skills, and abilities and a reliable framework for a continued, purposeful, and practiced way of being. This purposive meta-theoretical contribution expands upon decades of research in multiple interdisciplinary areas, including the corpus of industrial and organizational psychology, which may lead to new concepts, paradigms, and programs in organizations and schools. The implications for positive social change include the potential for organizational leaders to develop EI for continued self-improvement and personal mastery, extending to their teams’ efficacy, which may increase productivity and nurture diversity, equity, and inclusiveness.

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