He is currently a professor of psychology at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and also an associate editor for Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In the past he served as president of APA Division 36/Society for the Psychology of Religion & Spirituality, and chairman of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania Commission on Children's Ministry. Dr. Boyatzis and his wife, the Rev. Robin Jarrell, an Episcopal priest, have two daughters.