Darlene Piva, MA
Role(s)
- Core Faculty, Organizational and Leadership Psychology Department
- Associate Director of Field Placement, Organizational and Leadership Psychology Department
- Managing Director, Leadership Learning Hub
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, Instructional Designer, Sink Course Developer Workshop
- Certification, Trainer Managing Banking Operations for Productivity & Quality, The Edcomm Group
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
- Association for Talent Development (ATD)
- Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
Community Engagement
- OLP Alumni Alliance Chair
- Organizational Consultant to Norwood Fine Arts Collaborative Team
