By Ted Hayes

We’ve had a lot going on at Consulting Psychology Journal (CPJ) this calendar year. I wanted to put the latest news into your inbox.

First, we had the special issue on “Beyond the generic brown: South Asian and Arab people in the workplace.” I doubt you’d be able to find a collection of consulting-oriented articles such as these anywhere else. I hope you liked them.

Second, sometimes it’s not what’s directly going on but that there’s a dog that didn’t bark (for you Sherlock Holmes fans). There was considerable pressure in the March 2025 – May 2025 timeframe put on academic departments to downplay or eliminate diversity-related training elements. APA pushed back on that. Separately and to the point of this post, we at the journal have not received word, direction, hints, feedback, etc from APA about our journal’s efforts to publish inclusive manuscripts. Organizations include all sorts of people and face a full range of challenges; consultants come in all forms and with multiple perspectives. Thus CPJ remains committed to serving our broad audiences.

Third, our new special issue was published last week: “Ethical and legal issues in Artificial Intelligence for organizational consultants and managers.” It includes seven manuscripts on AI from multiple perspectives. When other journals publish manuscripts on AI they tend to be narrowly on selection-related topics (nothing wrong with that) or technical/machine learning issues. Our seven new manuscripts discuss a much broader range of topics. Given how precipitous the rate of AI adoption is, it seems like a perfect time to become conversant in the issues organizations face – or, when they fail to adopt AI, the issues that might cause. More special issues will come out this year.

Fourth, APA sent us our new impact factor: 1.42. (The impact factor on APA’s site is incorrect!) See below:

This means that people are reading and citing our manuscripts at a higher pace than in the past. Since we’re not mainly an academic journal, the fact that we’re getting our materials into other manuscripts is significant. Also, there are academic departments (yes I can name them) that discourage people from publishing in journals that have impact factors lower than 1; hypothetically now we are an “acceptable” outlet.

Fifth, we worked with APA to create compilations of articles that you can purchase for your clients regarding the scope of consulting psychology. Note that these compilations are not free. One compilation is on stress, resilience, and burnout. The other compilation is on the trusted leadership advisor.

Sixth, thank you so much to our amazing authors – one person said on LinkedIn last month that she was “in love” with an article by Erik de Haan – and our fantastic editorial board.

Finally, this is a call out to anyone who wants to get involved with the journal. Join the fun: send us a manuscript, become a reviewer!

Ted Hayes.