Areas of expertise:
- Executive coaching
- Program evaluation
- Career coaching
Dayle Savage is a faculty member in the Department of Leadership, Policy, & Organizations at Vanderbilt University and holds an administrative appointment as Director of the Peabody Career Development Office. She also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Development programs. She currently teaches classes in program evaluation and consultation skills at the graduate level as well as teaching Human Resource Management for undergraduates in the Human & Organizational Development major. Dayle directs the internship experience for graduate students in the Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Development programs.
Her research is grounded in adult development, psychology, and organizational behavior theory. Her areas of research include the consulting relationship and roles as they relate to the practice of consulting; the career development of individuals in transition, including those who are graduated, promoted, laid off, or terminated; and the development of adults in the workplace particularly in the areas of critical competencies, coaching as a developmental tool, and organizational outcomes from human capital development.
Dayle is particularly concerned with use of coaching in professional service organizations; program evaluation techniques that focus on job embeddedness and engagement; consulting outcomes from individual and small consultancies; and career planning strategies for graduate students.
She has an M.Ed. and an Ed.D. from Vanderbilt University.