Speakers

ICEI aims to bring together a diverse collection of Emotional Intelligence practitioners and business experts to offer our attendees a well rounded conference experience. This year our speakers and posters include the following:

Keynotes

Cary Cherniss Can We Improve Emotional Intelligence? What the Research Tells Us
  
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In his role as a core member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (EI Consortium), Cary Cherniss works to review and advance research into the many applications of Emotional Intelligence. The EI Consortium has quickly become a widely respected authority when it comes to studies focusing on Emotional Intelligence. As an educator, Cary taught at a number of prominent American schools before helping to create the doctoral program in Organizational Psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University. He currently serves as Professor of Applied Psychology and Director of the Organizational Psychology program at Rutgers.
Peter SaloveyWhy EI is an Intelligence and How it Can be Measured
  
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EI pioneer Peter Salovey worked with John Mayer to introduce the concept of "Emotional Intelligence" in 1990. Ever since, Salovey has consistently contributed to the Emotional Intelligence community. He, along with Drs. John Mayer and David Caruso developed and published the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT™), the first ever ability-based test of Emotional Intelligence. Peter also founded the Health, Emotion, and Behavior Labratory at Yale University, where he serves as Dean of Yale College and Chris Argyris Professor. The aim of the HEB Laboratory is to take research in emotional skills and competencies to new levels, studying how these behaviors can become relevant in the prevention of critical illness.

For more information on Peter Salovey's body of work, visit the Yale University site.

Speakers

Catherine AndersenWhat do we do with all these EQ-i® Reports?
  
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Catherine Andersen is Interim Dean of Enrollment Management and General Studies Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. In her tenure at Gallaudet, she has served as director of the First Year Experience, a department chair, Special Assistant to the Vice President of Academic Affairs, Director of Orientation and Retention, Interim Associate Dean and Interim Director of Developmental Studies. In 1994 she was the recipient of Gallaudet University’s Distinguished Faculty of the Year and in 1997 she was chosen as one of The Outstanding First Year Advocates by The National Resource Center on the First Year Experience and Students in Transition. In both 2003 and 2006 she was featured in First Year Experience and Students in Transition teleconferences on assessing first year seminars, and another on campus culture. In 2004 she was appointed to the National Board. In addition, she is part of the Wabash National Study – a Teagle Scholar, assisting college and universities in assessment of liberal education. She presents regularly at national and international conferences, and was an editor and primary author on a number of monographs and articles related to post secondary students. Her most Teaching recent publications include Students Success – A Master Student Reader (Houghton Millflin 2006), and Why Teaching First Year Students is Rewarding for Everyone – Peer Review (AAC&U Summer 2006). Her current interests include the role of Emotional Intelligence in college success.
Robert (Bob) AndersonWinning the Transition Game: Preparing Student Athletes for the Next Level Game---Life
  
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Bob Anderson is an international presenter on Harnessing the Power of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. A graduate of Norwich University (U.S. Oldest Private Military University) where he is a two sport member of his alma mater’s athletic hall of fame, Bob’s work focuses on assessing and developing EI in people of all ages. Having assessed over 3,500 people world wide (using the EQ-i and EQ-360) and having conducted EI skill development training in English and in Spanish to thousands more, Bob has taken his Master’s degree studies (Harvard University) of improving communities through the development of emotional intelligence to a practical level of application. Bob’s recent clients include Brown University, Norwich University, Northwest Airlines, Abbott Laboratories and Clif Bar. When not working to develop EI, Bob practices and develops his own as a father of two, as a master level endurance athlete, a member of Vermont’s Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Board Member of a Local Private School and as on original member of The Wounded Warrior Project. Bob is married to Heather Anderson the leading Vistage International (http://www.vistage.com) presenter on Emotional Intelligence for CEOs.
Marc BrackettEmotional Intelligence 101 for Undergraduates
  
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Marc Brackett currently serves as Associate Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Health, Emotions, & Behavior (HEB) Laboratory, as well as Psychology Director of the Zigler Center Emotional Intelligence Unit at the University of Yale. His research focuses on the measurement of Emotional Intelligence in children and adults, links between EI and the quality of interpersonal relationships, well being, and other important life outcomes. In his work at Yale, Marc also tests the relationship between self-rated emotion skills and actual skills, as well as whether emotion-based skills training can improve personal lives and academic/work performance. When conducting this important research, he always investigates how well his findings extend to different cultures.
Kevin ByrneEI as a Strategy for Scholarship Retention; More than a Check
  
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Kevin Byrne is the Dell Scholars Program Director at the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. Kevin joined the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in February 2004 from his position as Director of Program Services and Development with the Horatio Alger Association. Prior to that, he worked with the Center for International Security and Strategic Studies. Kevin has a BBA in Finance from Mississippi State University and an MBS in Strategy as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar from University College Cork in Cork, Ireland.
Estelle CodierThreading EI throughout a Graduate Health Care Curriculum
  
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Dr. Estelle Codier completed her PhD studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, with a dissertation on a workforce analysis of the performance and measured EI of health care workers. This study produced some of the earliest evidence that performance correlated with EI across a health care system. She went on to attempt to replicate that study across a different health care system. Her current work in EI is focused in academia, on cognitive learning styles and masters entry health care providers, and the integration of EI concepts and abilities as a thread throughout a graduate health care curriculum. She is currently also working on development of the EI of workers with the homeless, using an educational methodology. Throughout the last 5 years, Dr. Codier has both lectured and published both nationally and internationally on the subject of emotional intelligence in health care.
Georgia Holmes DoranEmotional Intelligence Improves Behavioral Interviewing Skills
  
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Georgia Holmes Doran is the Associate Director of the Office of Career Management and Professional Development at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business. Georgia earned a B.S, in Education from the University of Georgia and a M.Ed. in Student Personnel Services/Higher Education Administration from the University of South Carolina. She continues to pursue additional educational experiences to more fully develop her passion of training students in the area of Professional Development. She is a certified expert in “Business Etiquette and International Protocol” from the esteemed Protocol School of Washington. Georgia received her certificate of training in the Birkman Method – the premier Career Assessment tool – in 2004. She most recently received her certificate of training in the EQ-i Assessment and is now qualified to administer and interpret the results of this Assessment that measures one’s “Emotional Intelligence.” Georgia was also recently certified as a “Life Planner” and studied under, and was certified by Tom Paterson who wrote the esteemed book, “Living the Life You Were Meant To Live.” In addition to her development and facilitation of a 42.5 hour graduate student level Professional Development training curriculum specifically designed for the nationally ranked IMBA program students, Georgia enjoys teaching undergraduate freshman business students in the #1 nationally ranked “University 101” program at the University of South Carolina.
Elizabeth EvensonHow Do We Actually Teach Emotional Intelligence?
  
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Six years ago Elizabeth Evenson co-developed a one-credit course on Emotional Intelligence at Minnesota State University Moorhead where she is a counselor and associate professor. As a counselor, every day she sees the impact Emotional Intelligence has on students' success and adjustment to college. She first co-presented a program on teaching Emotional Intelligence to the American College Counseling Association in 2004. Elizabeth recently completed her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Capella University. Her dissertation explored differences in emotional intelligence between students on academic probation and on the Dean's List.
Steve FishmanThe College Approach: Emotional Intelligence - Student Success
  
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Steve Fishman has been employed at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada for over 20 years. He holds an M.A. in Counselling Psychology. Steve has held a number of positions in the college including: Program Coordinator, Professor, Counsellor, Learning Strategist and is currently the Program Director of SUCCESS@Seneca (Student Success and Retention). Steve has been involved with the application of Emotional Intelligence throughout his academic life. EI is the backbone of the highly successful SUCCESS@Seneca retention program. He is the recipient of Excellence in Teaching awards – University of Texas at Austin and Seneca College.
Fredricka JoynerIntegration of Emotional Intelligence into the MBA Curriculum
  
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Dr. Joyner is on the full time faculty of the Indiana University MBA program offered in Columbus, Indiana. With an academic and consulting background in leadership, organization and community development, Dr. Joyner leads the MBA curriculum thread focused on the development of personal and leadership competence.
Korrel KanoyIntegrating Emotional Intelligence into College Curriculum: Three Models
  
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Korrel Kanoy has been a college professor for over 25 years. A psychology major at the University of Richmond, Dr. Kanoy specialized in Child Development and Family Relationships at the University of Tennessee where she earned her masters and doctoral degrees. She has published articles and book chapters related to parent-child interaction and outcomes for children. In the 1990s, her work with college psychology majors preparing for the job market led her to incorporate emotional intelligence components in a senior capstone course. More recently, Korrel has designed and taught a stand-alone course in emotional intelligence to college students. Korrel is certified to administer and provide feedback on individual and 360 instruments related to emotional intelligence, leadership styles and organizational climate. In addition to serving as Professor of Psychology at Peace College, Korrel has held numerous academic positions at Peace including Director of Assessment, Program Coordinator for Psychology, Faculty Moderator and Associate Dean. In the spring of 2006, Dr. Kanoy was named Dean of Academic Affairs. More recently, Dr. Kanoy has engaged in consulting and coaching work related to EI development of individuals, assessment of organizational climate and assessment of customer/client satisfaction.
Gail KileyIn Teaching Others, We All Learn
  
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Gail Kiley, M.Ed., has been incorporating Emotional Intelligence concepts into her teaching at the University of Cincinnati since September, 2005. As a Field Service Assistant Professor in the university’s Center for Access and Transition, Kiley teaches College Success Seminar to incoming freshmen who do not meet admission standards for their chosen college. Kiley incorporated UC students into a service learning research project in fall, 2005. Working with 7th and 8th graders in an inner city Cincinnati Public School, UC students helped to create Club ORO, which created opportunities for mentoring and group discussions around topics including social responsibility, stress tolerance and impulse control, and problem solving. Both college and junior high students reported better awareness and understanding of their own emotional intelligence after this year long effort. Their capstone project, a creative writing magazine titled Finding Ourselves, was disseminated to local organizations serving youth in crisis.
Michael KubaMaking EI Meaningful for Individuals and Groups
  
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Mike Kuba has worked as a counselor in higher education since receiving his Masters degree from Villanova University in 1979. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor in West Virginia. For the past twenty years he has been the Director of the Counseling Center at West Virginia Wesleyan College and began his study of emotional intelligence about eight years ago. In early 2003 he conducted a pilot project using the MSCEIT and the BarOn EQi. Later that year he received EQi certification. Since that time he has been using the EQi in Freshman Seminar groups, classroom settings, and individual counseling. Mike has given presentations on EI at statewide conferences and in the last few years has started to integrate mindfulness training in his work. He plans a new project incorporating mindfulness practices and emotional intelligence.
Heather LeeIntegrating Emotional Intelligence into College Curriculum: Three Models
  
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Heather Lee, Ph.D., SPHR is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. Heather left the nonprofit arena in 1998 to become a professor at Raleigh’s Peace College in Human Resources and Psychology where she co-developed a major in Leadership Studies. Heather consults with the public sector, nonprofits and educational institutions in the areas of human resources, infrastructure development, emotional intelligence application and leadership. Since 2003, Heather has been a lead faculty member for the NC Center for Women and Public Service. She has a special interest in the application of emotional intelligence in higher education as well as through her consulting business in selection of employees, performance management and coaching and development. Since 2004, Heather has developed selection systems that measure EI for law enforcement agencies, local government management positions as well as nonprofit executive positions.
Rebecca LoehrerEmotional Intelligence Principles and Application to Create Classroom Engagement
  
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Dr. Rebecca Loehrer earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and is a Licensed Psychologist in Texas and Virginia. She has over 20 years of experience as a psychologist in practice and in higher education. She is currently a core faculty member at Capella University in the I/O specialization. Dr. Loehrer has worked and taught in the area of emotional intelligence assessment and enhancement in her clinical practice as well as in an academic setting. She is interested in the application of emotional intelligence in academia and student engagement. 

Ph.D. – Counseling Psychology – Texas A&M University
M.S. – Counseling Psychology – Radford University
B.A. – Psychology – Baylor University

Christine LottmanIn Teaching Others, We All Learn
  
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Christine Lottman MSW has been teaching at the University of Cincinnati for the past eight years. She has been exploring and utilizing emotional intelligence concepts into her professional and personal life for much longer than that – in both academic as well as social service venues. Prior to her work at UC, she has been a Social Worker in various incarnations in the United States and Canada. She and Gail Kiley have been integrating the skills, competencies and awareness of emotional intelligence into our College Success Seminar for freshmen and the Honors Scholars’ elective course described in our workshop.
Anne-Michelle MarsdenTeaching Emotional Intelligence Theory and Practice Online
  
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Anne-Michelle Marsden has served as a Rutgers University faculty member since 1985. She developed a graduate course that specifically addressed emotional intelligence in 2001 followed by an undergraduate version of the course 2005/06. Both are available through the School of Management and Labor Relations under the title of Emotional Intelligence at the Workplace. To date, she has taught over 150 students EI theory and skill development online utilizing these 3 credit courses. She is certified to administer the MSCEIT. She is an expert in developing online courses, receiving the Excellence in Online Teaching award in 2007. Academic background: human development.
Wanda MauldingEmotional Intelligence: A Non-Traditional Predictor of College Success
  
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Dr. Wanda S. Maulding is currently the Interim Dean for the College of Education and Psychology at The University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Maulding’s research interests include the relationship of Emotional Intelligence to the Role and Success of the Leader.
William MosesTracking Student Success with EI
  
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William Moses is a professor of art and coordinator of emotional intelligence assessment at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. For the past four years he has been working with the First Year Experience program teaching classes and training faculty, staff and student teaching assistants in the use of active learning techniques to address curricular goals. During his tenure at Gallaudet, he has served as chair of two different departments, was special assistant to the provost for program review, then dean of the School of Communication. He has been instrumental in securing major grants supporting student pre-professional opportunities. Bill is a certified practitioner of group psychotherapy and psychodrama, a certified emotional intelligence trainer, and a founding member of the Alliance for New Music Theatre. With his varied background, he has taught in several departments at Gallaudet including art, theatre arts, counseling, social work, and clinical psychology. With Catherine Andersen, Bill is writing a text entitled The Emotionally Intelligent College Student. In addition to his numerous professional presentations and ongoing research related to emotional intelligence, Bill continues his artistic endeavors as a painter, playwright and librettist. He was recently named “Outstand First-Year Advocate” at Gallaudet.
Deborah SeaburgHow Do We Actually Teach Emotional Intelligence?
  
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Six years ago Deborah Seaburg co-developed a one-credit course on Emotional Intelligence at Minnesota State University Moorhead where she is a counselor and associate professor. As a counselor, every day she sees the impact Emotional Intelligence has on students' success and adjustment to college. She first co-presented a program on teaching Emotional Intelligence to the American College Counseling Association in 2004. Since then, Deb has twice presented ideas from the course to the International Conference on the First Year Experience. She has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota and has also worked at Concordia College Moorhead and Washington State University.
Craig SealMBA EI Development through Teams and Negotiations
  
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Dr. Craig R. Seal is an Assistant Professor of Commerce in the College of Business Administration at Niagara University. He teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in human resource management and organizational behavior & development. His scholarship focuses upon the theoretical and empirical impact of emotional and social intelligence in organizations as well as the integration of service learning into management education. Craig is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, the Academy of Management, the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society. He is also on the Editorial Board for the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. Prior to joining Niagara University, Craig was an accomplished manager and executive with ten years experience in the non-profit, real estate, and staffing industries. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from George Washington University, MA in Counseling Psychology from Boston College and BS in Psychology from Santa Clara University.
Larry SparkmanEmotional Intelligence: A Non-Traditional Predictor of College Success
  
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Dr. Larry A. Sparkman is currently the Director of the Luckyday Foundation Citizenship Scholars Program at the University of Southern Mississippi. Research interests include: Emotional Intelligence and its relationship to Student Persistence; Student Performance; and the impacts of Service-Learning on Emotional Intelligence of College Students.
Oscar Sweeten-LopezEI as a Strategy for Scholarship Retention; More than a Check
  
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Oscar Sweeten-Lopez is the Retention Manager for the Dell Scholars Program at the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. Oscar joined the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation in December, 2005 from his position as Director of Student Retention and Workforce Development for the Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement. Other past experience includes work with the Oregon Human Development Corporation and AmeriCorps. Oscar has a BA in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Oregon and is a Leadership Fellow at the Institute of Non Profit Management at Portland State University.

Posters

Robert (Bob) AndersonSuccessful Transitions: Using EI to Make the Successful Leap from High School Classroom to College Dorm Room
  
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Bob Anderson is an international presenter on Harnessing the Power of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership. A graduate of Norwich University (U.S. Oldest Private Military University) where he is a two sport member of his alma mater’s athletic hall of fame, Bob’s work focuses on assessing and developing EI in people of all ages. Having assessed over 3,500 people world wide (using the Baron EQi and EQI 360) and having conducted EI skill development training in English and in Spanish to thousands more, Bob has taken his Master’s degree studies (Harvard University) of improving communities through the development of emotional intelligence to a practical level of application. Bob’s recent clients include Brown University, Norwich University, Northwest Airlines, Abbott Laboratories and Clif Bar. When not working to develop EI, Bob practices and develops his own as a father of two, as a master level endurance athlete, a member of Vermont’s Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Board Member of a Local Private School and as on original member of The Wounded Warrior Project. Bob is married to Heather Anderson the leading Vistage International (www.vistage.com) presenter on Emotional Intelligence for CEOs.
Lisa BallEmotional Intelligence in Nursing: Inside the Student Mind
  
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Lisa Ball earned am undergraduate baccalaureate nursing degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and a Master of Science in the Family Nurse Practitioner program from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She have practiced in various nursing roles within clinical practice, education and research, and has noticed the particular import of Emotional Intelligence in nurses’ work across the discipline. She is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Nursing at the University at Buffalo studying the application of EI in nursing. She believes that the first step in developing this area of the science is to explore and explain how EI is used in nursing from the perspective of select groups of nurses, which was the driving force for her doctoral dissertation study currently underway.
Geraldine BloemkerSocial and Emotional Learning in Freshman Seminars
  
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Geraldine Bloemker, Psy.D. is the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs and an Assistant Professor of Education in the School of Human Service Professions at Widener University. She is a licensed psychologist with extensive clinical experience with adolescents and young adults in the areas of: crisis intervention; learning disabilities; ADA disability issues on college campuses; college student mental health; crisis intervention; as well as Special Education (IDEA). She is currently a part of a research project at Widener assessing the effect of a social and emotional learning curriculum on the retention and success of college freshmen.
Felicia BradshawEmotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement in Higher Education
  
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Felicia Bradshaw completed her doctoral dissertation titled “Exploring the Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement in African American Female College Students” in 2008. She currently teaches for the Department of Psychology/ Sociology at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. After completing her terminal degree in Instructional Leadership for Changing Populations, she works to review and enhance research, teaching strategies and curriculum development in emotional intelligence and academic achievement at the post-secondary level.
Nicole BrownPromoting Emotional Intelligence: A Graduate Level Curriculum
  
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Nicole Brown is currently a fourth-year doctoral student in the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology (IGCP) at Widener University. She began her work on the WELS project four years ago during the norming and validation phase of the project. Recently, she has been involved in a pilot project to utilize the instrument with first-year IGCP students providing feedback on their test scores to facilitate these students’ personal and professional development. The results of this project were presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality Assessment in March 2008. Ms. Brown is in the process of getting her certification in school psychology and is writing her dissertation on the effect of social and emotional issues as they pertain to females in middle school.
Estelle CodierEmotional Intelligene and Cognitive Learning Styles
  
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Dr. Estelle Codier completed her PhD studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, with a dissertation on a workforce analysis of the performance and measured EI of health care workers. This study produced some of the earliest evidence that performance correlated with EI across a health care system. She went on to attempt to replicate that study across a different health care system in Hawaii. Her current work in EI is focused in academia, on cognitive learning styles and masters entry health care providers, and the integration of EI concepts and abilities as a thread throughout a graduate health care curriculum. She is currently working on development of the EI of workers with the homeless, using an educational methodology. Throughout the last 5 years, Dr. Codier has both lectured and published both nationally and internationally on the subject of emotional intelligence in health care.
Paulette CoufEmotional Intelligence: A Graduate Level Curriculum
  
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Paulette Couf is currently a fourth-year doctoral student in the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology (IGCP) at Widener University. She began her work on the WELS project four years ago during the norming and validation phase of the project. Recently, she has been involved in a pilot project to utilize the instrument with first-year IGCP students providing feedback on their test scores to facilitate these students’ personal and professional development. The results of this project were presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality Assessment in March 2008. Ms. Couf is integrating a modified version of the WELS curriculum into her dissertation research with incarcerated females.
Donna DiMatteo-GibsonEmotional Intelligence Principles and Application to Create Classroom Engagement
  
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Donna DiMatteo-Gibson is an adjunct faculty member in HASOP and a management consultant who works with organizations to improve organizational effectiveness, e-learning and assists in change efforts. Donna has spent 16 years working in education, government, utilities, and manufacturing industries. As a management consultant, trainer and educator, she brings a balanced perspective to understanding the complexities of organizational effectiveness through research and practice. She has worked with many organizations to develop the emotional intelligence skills of leaders within different industries. Dr. DiMatteo-Gibson has completed many large-scale implementations in the areas of workforce planning, training (e-learning), performance management, human resources metrics, selection, and organizational effectiveness survey research. Donna presents frequently on topics, such as competency-based interviewing, organizational effectiveness, evaluation and training. Dr. DiMatteo-Gibson is a graduate from the University of San Diego. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in both Speech Communications and Psychology. She is a graduate of the California School of Professional Psychology-San Diego campus, which is now called Alliant International University. She obtained two Masters of Science degrees; one in Psychology and one in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. She also obtained her Doctorate of Philosophy in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology.
Grazyna Maria GasiorowskaThe Most Dominant Emotional Intelligence Abilities and Skills of Project Managers
  
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Dr. Grazyna Maria Gasiorowska has earned her doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University, and her M.B.A. degree from the Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business. Dr. Gasiorowska is a scholar/practitioner in the field of organizational development and change (OD/OC), project management, executive coaching, and professional training. She has developed curricula, taught courses, and conducted many customized workshops. They focus on self-discovery and better understanding of how to use the most favorable positive ways in order to achieve maximum success in professional and personal life. Dr. Gasiorowska has been engaged in a study of emotions, as well as research involving Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional Quotient (EQ-i). She has been certified to use Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Her publication topics include leadership in multi-cultural settings, and emotional intelligence as a conduit to effective self-management.
Tamira HarrisStudent Retention and Success
  
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Tamira Harris is a senior professional in healthcare leadership. Her professional career includes leadership development, organizational change and transformation, and strategy execution in the health care sector. Her area of expertise and research is in Emotional Intelligence and Executive Leadership. She has held academic appointments at The Ohio State University, Kent State University, Bowling Green University and Medical College of Ohio. She is currently on faculty at Case Western Reserve University and Regis University. Her education includes a PhD in Human and Development and a Masters in Business Administrative. She is a trained coach and certified in Emotional Intelligence, Appreciative Inquiry, and Mediation and Facilitation. Dr. Harris is a Commonwealth Executive Fellow and served as an advisor and intern in Washington on health care policy issues and legislation.
Rebecca HaskettSelf-Awareness & MBA’s: The Foundation for Emotional Intelligence Development
  
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Rebecca Haskett is currently Professor in the Falls School of Business at Anderson University, and co-founder of the EQ “Think Tank” networking organization in Anderson, IN. She is co-author of a workbook Metamorphosis: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence for Creating a Successful Life & Effective Relationships (2005). She utilizes the EQ-i assessment in courses, seminars and workshops. Recent clients include the Department of Homeland Security, Edward Jones, Indiana Business Education Association, Center for Mental Health, and Ball State University as a keynote speaker on topic of Emotional Intelligence for their Annual Teaching and Learning Conference. As part of her doctoral work at Indiana University, her dissertation research highlighted the importance of the EQ-i subscales of Optimism and Happiness for Award Winning faculty Emotional Intelligence and Teaching Success in Higher Education (2002).
Sveltiana HoltEmotional Intelligence and academic achievement in undergraduate students
  
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Svetlana Holt is a member of Phi Delta Kappa National Honor Society for Educators, a member of the International Society for Performance Improvement, and a registered practitioner of Mayer-Salovey-Caruso emotional Intelligence test. She has fifteen years of experience in education, academic support services, curricula design and evaluation, and business and academic management. She currently teaches Management topics for public and private colleges in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Holt’s research and publications topics include leadership in multicultural settings, emotional intelligence as it relates to organizational performance, and academic achievement in higher education.
Cindy JamesThe Emotional Quotient of Student Leadership
  
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Cindy James, B.Ed., M.A., has nineteen years of post-secondary administrative and instructional experience, and currently is the Coordinator of the Thompson Rivers University Assessment Centre and a lecturer in the Mathematics & Statistics department. Predicting student success is the primary focus of her research and as such she has presented and published various articles on this topic, nationally and internationally.
Susan KeckBuilding Emotional Intelligence in Freshmen Students
  
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Sue Keck is the Assistant Director for Technical Services Assessment in the Academic Success Center. She is co-designer of the Foundations for Success course at IPFW that focuses on EI skills for freshmen students. She is a member of the Midwest Think Tank on Emotional Intelligence and was a planner for the Midwest EI conference in 2008.
Barbara L.S. KirkwoodBuilding Emotional Intelligence in Freshmen Students
  
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Barbara Kirkwood is currently the Associate Director for Group Support Services at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne. She has been working on student success for over 30 years including designing a freshman course that focuses on EI. She is working with a team on a study of students taking remediation courses or the course focusing on EI. She is a member of the Midwest Think Tank on Emotional Intelligence and was a planner for the Midwest EI conference in 2008.
Lori K. LaCivitaEmotional Intelligence Principles and Application to Create Classroom Engagement
  
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Dr. Lori LaCivita earned her Ph.D. in Psychology, with a specialization in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O). She is currently a core faculty member has over 20 years experience in higher education, serving both as an administrator in the areas of Student Affairs, Student Leadership Development and as a graduate school faculty member. She has worked in-depth in the areas of emotional intelligence assessment and enhancement, coaching psychology, professional development/performance enhancement, leadership, curriculum development, student success, employee development and executive coaching. Dr. LaCivita combines a powerful combination of experience in higher education and I/O consultation with a unique background of innovative presentation skills and thinking methodologies. Her presentation methods are designed to create a climate that is both motivational as well as thought provoking.
Robert LeichtTeaching Emotional Intelligence within an Architectural Engineering Curriculum
  
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Robert is currently a PhD Candidate in the Architectural Engineering Department at Penn State. Robert’s research focuses on the improvement of team collaboration while leveraging advanced data modeling and visualization technologies for building design and construction. Robert earned his Masters in Architectural Engineering at Penn State, as well as having a background in the construction industry working for a large general contractor, a land developer, and specialty design-build mechanical contractor. In addition, Robert has also spend time working with VTT, the Technical Research Center of Finland, as a visiting scholar with their Building Informatics team. Robert’s interest in Emotional Intelligence has grown through his research into improving team collaboration through improved communication.
Angela LewisTeaching Emotional Intelligence within an Architectural Engineering Curriculum
  
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Angela Lewis is a Ph D student in Architectural Engineering at Penn State and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Angela has worked as a Mechanical Engineering for two years and has a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering. Her research interests included integrated design, building control systems, and improving the energy efficiency commercial buildings. She became interested in the area of Emotional Intelligence this past November after participation in a large, international design-build-operate student competition, the Solar Decathlon. She finds it a refreshing and very worthwhile topic. Her main interests in emotional intelligence are to improve her own EI skills while encouraging others to find value in emotional intelligence.
John LiptakEmotional Intelligence and Student Success in the Workplace
  
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John Liptak is currently working as Associate Director for Career Counseling & Assessment at Radford University. He is working to help Radford students develop the EI skills needed to effectively transition into the workforce, and has recently received a major grant from the Southern Association of Colleges and Employers (SACE) to study the Emotional Intelligence skills that college students possess and lack when they enter the workforce. For the grant, Radford is using an assessment Liptak developed called the Job Survival and Success Scale (JSSS) to identify Emotional Intelligence skills in college students. The JSSS measures five competencies in Dan Goleman’s Emotional Competence Framework. Liptak is a member of the EI Consortium and has written five books on the topic of Emotional Intelligence including The Anger & Aggression Workbook, The Communication Skills Workbook, Life Skills IQ Test, The Self-Esteem Program, and The Social Skills Program. He has authored several articles on the topic of Emotional Intelligence in refereed journals. In addition, he has presented at national and international conferences on the topic of the Emotional Intelligence of College Students Transitioning into the Workforce. Liptak has an Ed.D. in Student Personnel Services from Virginia Tech.
Corina N. MihaiEmotional Intelligence and Academic Leadership: An Exploratory Study of College and University Presidents
  
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Dr. Corina N. Mihai is an assistant professor of business, director of the Master of Business Administration and Organizational Management programs, and faculty liaison for business majors enrolled in the Expressway program at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Dr. Mihai earned her bachelor’s degree and MBA from Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA and her Ph.D. in Organization Management with a specialization in Leadership from Capella University, Minneapolis, Minn. Her dissertation was titled: “Emotional Intelligence and Academic Leadership: An Exploratory Study of College and University Presidents.” She has over 10 years of academic administration experience and over eight years of business teaching experience at graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include emotional intelligence, leadership, organizational behavior and development, strategic management, and higher education administration.
Rose-Marie NigliSupporting Leadership Capacity- Building in the Community Services Sector
  
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Rose-Marie Nigli, MA., PhD. Candidate with studies in Psychology and Theology, is currently a counselor with George Brown College and specializes in counseling and career coaching. She is a certified trainer and facilitator in Myers-Briggs, True Colours, EQ-i. Her research interests are in the area of Immigrant Studies and she has been a key faculty member for the Emerging Leaders Program.
Luna RamkhalawansinghSupporting Leadership Capacity- Building in the Community Services Sector
  
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Luna Ramkhalawansingh, MSW., MBA., PhD. Candidate has over 25 years of community and organizational development experience in supporting the nonprofit voluntary sector. Most recently, she held the position of Associate Director, Schulich School of Business, Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program at York University. Her PhD research focuses on leadership capacity-building.
Isabella K. ReichelIntegrating Emotional Intelligence Curricula in Fluency Disorders Courses
  
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Isabella K. Reichel, Ed.D., is a licensed speech-language pathologist and audiologist. For about 30 years, Dr. Reichel has specialized in the treatment of people who stutter. She is affiliated with Lehman College, CUNY. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled “Development of Emotional Intelligence Module in Graduate Fluency Disorders Courses.” She educates her colleagues in the field of speech-language pathology in emotional intelligence, by presenting and publishing her research in emotional intelligence internationally. She participated in the International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference, 2007, with a paper entitled “Emotional Intelligence and Stuttering Intervention.”
David RileyTeaching Emotional Intelligence within an Architectural Engineering Curriculum
  
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Dr. David Riley is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State. His expertise areas include green building technologies, integrated project delivery methods, and sustainability education in engineering. Riley currently teaches courses in construction engineering and project management and advises design-build programs such as the 2007 Solar Decathlon team and the American Indian Housing Initiative. Riley is the Director of the Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence at Penn State through which the EQi Assessment program has been implemented in the Architectural Engineering program. He is also the Executive Director of the Center for Sustainability at Penn State.
Elizabeth TemplemanThe Emotional Quotient of Student Leadership
  
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Elizabeth Templeman, B.A., M.A., has taught ESL at Thompson Rivers University (in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada) for over twenty years. For the past four years, she has coordinated Supplemental Learning, an academic support program (based upon the SI Model). She has presented and published on ESL articulation and instruction, and published personal essays in various literary journals, and a book of creative non-fiction.
Jane WaddellEmotional Intelligence, Learner Autonomy, and Online Ph.D. Retention
  
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Jane T. Waddell is a Ph.D. Candidate at Regent University, ABD, in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Human Resource Development; anticipated graduation is May 2009. She retired in June 2005, with 28 years of federal law enforcement service, and started pursuing her Ph.D. in August 2005. She is an adjunct professor in various leadership and human resources courses at the undergraduate and master’s level with Regent University. She and a colleague conducted research on emotional intelligence, learner autonomy, and the retention of online doctoral students. Her dissertation topic is emotional intelligence and servant leadership.
Will WilsonEmotional Intelligence Principles and Application to Create Classroom Engagement
  
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Dr. Will Wilson is the faculty chair of Industrial/Organizational psychology at Capella University. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist and president-elect of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 19, the Society of Military Psychology. He is a retired Army colonel, a career military officer graduating from West Point in 1963, who then served in armored and special forces units including assignments with green beret A teams and a Mike Force in Vietnam. After 10 years as a combat officer, he became a military psychologist working for the Superintendent (president) of the US Military Academy where he rewrote and developed the current US Military Academy and US Air Force Academy leader development model. Upon leaving the military he established a private consultation group and has taught in distance education settings since 1995.
Jenny WyattSocial and Emotional Learning in Freshman Seminars
  
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Jenny Wyatt, MSS, LCSW is a clinical social worker and an assistant professor in the Center for Social Work Education where she also serves as Assistant Director. She is completing her doctoral dissertation at Bryn Mawr College, School of Social Work and Social Research. She has taught at both graduate and undergraduate levels at Widener University. She has extensive clinical experience with children, adolescents, adults, and families and specializes in crisis intervention, critical incident stress management, child and adolescent therapy, and serious mental illness. Research interests include social and emotional learning, the transition of the mentally ill into the community and volunteerism in emergency services. She is currently part of a research project at Widener assessing the effect of a social and emotional learning curriculum on the retention and success of college freshmen.

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