2026-2027 Distinguished Service and Contribution Award

2026-2027 SPA Distinguished Service and Contribution to Personality Assessment Award

Applications Due September 3, 2026!
This award honors individuals promoting personality assessment through excellence in teaching, outreach, advocacy, or practice. Recipients are those whose work has made a meaningful contribution to the practice of personality assessment by way of direct service, policy development and implementation, innovation, teaching, training, leadership, or advocacy for the profession.

All applications must be submitted by All applications must be submitted by September 3, 2026 at 11:59pm ET / September 4, 2026 at 4:59pm GMT.

If you have any questions, please reach out to our office at info@personality.org.
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Please provide a description as to why you should receive the Distinguished Service Award. As a reminder, we are looking to see how the nominee has made a meaningful contribution to the practice of personality assessment by way of direct service, policy development and implementation, innovation, teaching, training, professional publications, leadership, or advocacy for the profession.

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SPA is dedicated to creating an intentionally inclusive Society that does not discriminate on the basis of all identity dimensions, which include, but are not limited to, ability, age, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, immigrant status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and veteran status. We welcome nominations from all individuals that meet the application requirements. Feel free to indicate multiple boxes where applicable.

We are inviting you as the applicant to self-identify along any and all of these following demographic dimensions. The information provided will only be seen by the Awards Selection Committee, and we will utilize this information to ensure the applicant pool represents the full diversity of our membership. Any report of the applicants will be shared in aggregate form, and no personally identifiable information will be connected to the demographics.
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2026-2027 SPA Distinguished Service and Contribution to Personality Assessment Award