Associate Professor, Department of Global Management and Organization

Inclusion Coordinator, Office of Academic and Student Affairs

Professor Jamesena Talbott leads efforts to foster diversity and inclusion on campus.  Read an extended Q&A from The Point magazine.

Contact information:

Office: West Penn 1205
Phone: 412-392-4755
Email: jtalbott@pointpark.edu

Academic Profile

Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership, 2003, University of Phoenix
Comprehensive Areas: Management, Leadership, Organizational Systems, Epistemology
Career Focus: Leader development; multicultural facets in spiritual leadership, group/team building and development

Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, 2007, Waynesburg University
Career Focus: Career Counseling—Career Development and Career Pathing Strategies, Community Health--Networks and Systems of Care; Application of Complimentary practices, Peer Spirit© Circle Method and Open Space Method applied to group work and team building.

Master of Arts in Public and International Affairs, 1996, GSPIA University of Pittsburgh
Concentration: International/Foreign Affairs
Globalization Capstone Focus: Training and Development Programs in U.S. Multinational Corporations

Continuing Research-Scholarship

March 2009 – present
Fielding Graduate University, Human & Organization Development Ph.D. Program
Continuing studies and research focus: human development, global studies and globally responsible leadership, integral psychology, integral and wholistic inquiry-theory, application and practice; emergent social entrepreneurs; and local-to-global career pathing strategies.  Concentration on but not limited to meaningfulness in human work, life transitions, application of integral and transpersonal methods, phenomenographic inquiry and narrative analysis.

Course Design and Teaching/Facilitation Experience

Undergraduate Level:

• Leadership Skills
• Essence of Leadership: Emotional Intelligence
• Authentic Leadership: Authenticity, Character and Effectiveness
• Intercultural Communication
• Diversity Issues in Communication
• Culture, Communication and Technology
• Communicating the Virtual Workplace
• Organizational Behavior/Workplace Environments
• Management Seminar
• Management: Theory, Practice and Application
• Total Quality Management
• Strategic Management for Leaders
• Qualitative Research Methods

Graduate Level:

• Organizational Leadership and Change Management
• Human Relations and Organizational Behavior
• Organization Studies and Ethical Considerations
• Interpersonal Communication for Leaders
• Leader Development
• Organizational Development 
• Strategic Thinking for Organizational Leaders
• Community Networks
• Team Building for Leaders
• Research Design
• Directed Research Project in Organizational Leadership
• Capstone in Organizational and Community Leadership

Relevant Experience

The Career Journey: Talbott has a 20 plus year career span working in an array of administrative and leadership roles; serving as faculty for adult learners since 2001. Throughout the years, Talbott worked in various capacities including serving as division human resource liaison, capital and financial project director, director of retail services, assistant director for campus services. She had the opportunity to participate in the implementation of Oracle financials and served as an Oracle trainer on general ledger, purchasing and self-service applications. Other training development and professional development includes TQM trainer in Leadership through Quality strategy -- train-the-trainer program through the Xerox Corporation in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University; emotional intelligence professional development seminars (Linkage, Inc and Pittsburgh Family Services).

The Student Journey: Talbott studied in traditional and nontraditional modalities. Her learner, scholar and practitioner experience includes full time traditional classroom format, evening part-time format, Pitt-Saturday College, external studies program format, and in online and hybrid online/distributed systems with required residencies.

Certifications and Professional Development

National Certified Counselor (NCC) rank awarded by the National Board for Certified Counselors; effective 2010-2015. Professional area: Career Counseling/Career Development

In the summer of 2010, Talbott was invited to participate as one of six Dreamfish Fellows. Dreamfish is a global human work cooperative with active participants in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Oceanic regions. Fellows served as members of the Community Team and continue to serve in this global community in the areas of service team development and peer group support. This work augments her research under the Human and Organization Development Ph.D. program at Fielding Graduate University.

Community Service

Spring /Fall 2010-201 served as eMentor with PA Smart Futures
Supporter of Hurricane Katrina and Haiti Relief Efforts
Supporter of Animal Friends, ASPCA, and Humane Society, USA