Darlene Piva, MA, PsyD

Role(s)

• Director, MA in Organizational Psychology
• Core Faculty, 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