Darlene Piva, MA, PsyD
Role(s)
- Core Faculty, Organizational & Leadership Psychology Department
- Senior Associate Director of Field Placement, Organizational & Leadership Psychology Department
Degrees
- PsyD, Leadership Psychology, Neuroscience of Leadership Area of Emphasis, William James College
- MA, Organizational Psychology, William James College
- BA, Economics, Providence College
Teaching
- Performance Development, Management Psychology, and Training (TM615), MAOP
- Foundations of Organizational Development (ST500), MAOP
- Capstone (PR850), MAOP
Research and Practice Interests
- The impact of love of humanity and self on leadership style, employee performance, and workplace culture - Love leadership as embodied by Wonder Woman
- Nueroscience of leadership and human interaction and identity
- Leader-member dynamics
- Motivation psychology including need for achievement, flow, self-efficacy
- Positive psychology and appreciative Inquiry
- Mindfulness
- Training and development
Professional Licenses and Certifications
- Certification, Existential Universe Mapper (EUM) Organization and Individual Assessment, Reflexive Lenses Consulting
- Certification, Instructional Design & Course Development, Darryl Sink & Associates
- Certification, Targeted Selection Interviewing, Development Dimensions International (DDI)
- Certification, Developing Procedures, Policies & Documentation, Information Mapping Inc.
- Certification, Promises, Promises! Trainer, Eagle's Flight Inc.
Current Professional Leadership and/or Concurrent Work Experience
- Organization & Leadership Psychology Consultant
- Training & Development Consultant
Prior Professional Leadership and/or Work Experience
- Training Consultant, The EDCOMM Group, New York, NY
- Program Manager, Operations Management Development Program (OMDP), BankBoston, Boston, MA
- Organizational Development Consultant, PAREXEL, Waltham, MA
- Organizational Consulting Intern for Appreciative Inquiry Cultural Responsiveness Initiative, Justice Resource Institute, Newton, MA
- Organizational Consultant, Global Bankers Institute, New York, NY
Professional Affiliations
- APA Division 14 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- APA Division 13 Society for Consulting Psychology
- Boston Facilitator's Roundtable
- Association for Talent Development
Community Engagement
- OLP Allumni Alliance Faculty Liaison 2021 - Present
- OLP Alumni Alliance Chair 2015 - 2021
