Speaking Engagements and Presentations
2016
Nov 17 -20
Redesigning your Class using Design Thinking, International Lilly Teaching Conference
Aug 6 - 10
Design Thinking Workshop, American Accounting Association (AAA) annual meeting, NYC.
Creativity Workshop: Geniuses, Aha Moments, and Engaging your Creative Brain, AAA annual meeting, NYC.
June 18 - 21
Want to keep your Talent? Who are the Happiest Accountants and Why?, Institute of Management Accountants, Las Vegas, NV.
Using Games and Design Thinking to Encourage Innovation, Institute of Management Accountants, Las Vegas, NV.
March 30
Using Design Thinking to Resdesign your Class, Youngstown State University.
March 7
Using Design Thinking to Increase Happiness on your Job, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH.
2015
Upward Bound – Removing Impediments to Success, AAA annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Can we be little more like Harvard? Becoming a Better You and Impact in the Valley, Youngstown State University Faculty Development Day.
Creativity, Geniuses, and Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Ohio Region American Accounting Association, Cleveland (2015).
Experiential Sampling Study: Improving the Daily Lives and Well-Being of Accounting Students, 2015 Annual Meeting of the AAA, Chicago, IL.
Meaning and Happiness at the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, 4th World Congress on Positive Psychology.
Experiential Study of Well-Being in the Daily Lives of Accounting Students, AAA, FAST-CA, Chicago, IL.
Meaning at Work: Expertise, Happiness, Job-Satisfaction and Retention for Employees in the Accounting Profession, the Ohio Region AAA meeting, Cleveland, OH.
2014
August 2 -7, 2014
American Accounting Association (AAA), Atlanta, CA
-Exploring the World of Positive Organizational Scholarship
-Traveling through the Neuro-Connected World of Mind, Emotions, and Education.
-Boosting your Psychological Resiliency
-Panel
May 1, 2014
Ohio Region of the AAA, Columbus, OH
-Traveling through the Neuro-Connected World of Mind, Emotion, and Education.
March 28, 2014
Harvard University
-Moderator, Student Presentations on Motivation.
2013
November 21-24, 2013
The Lilly Conference, Oxford, OH
-Improving Student Engagement: Building Mastery and Meaning in Every Class”
-Moving Towards a Strengths-Based Pedagogy”
October 17-19,2013
AAA Midwest Region, Chicago, IL
-Positively Designing a Course Using the Course Crafting Exercise
-How to Mastery and Meaning in Every Class
August 3 -8, 2013
American Accounting Association (AAA), Anaheim, CA
-Developing Character Strengths and Virtues as a Key to Increased Well-Being
-Gamification in the Workplace: Play at Work (panel)
-Developing Stunning Students: How to add Mastery and Meaning to Every Class
-Comparing the Effectiveness of Learning Centers and Writing Circles to Improve Accounting Students' Writing Skills
-Running Circles around Writing: Flourish in your Writing Quality and Productivity
June 22, 2013
The Institute of Management Accountants National Conference (IMA)
-Becoming Awesome: Developing a Resilient Mindset
May 15, 2013
Youngstown State University,
-Becoming a Happier Accounting by Using Your Strengths, Ohio CPE Day.
April 10 and 11, 2013
Youngstown State University
-Breathe New Life into Your Courses Over the Summer: Developing Stunning
Students by Adding Mastery and Meaning to Every Class
2012
November 15 - 18, 2012
The Lilly Teaching Conference, Oxford, OH
-Developing Stunning Students: The Becoming Awesome Resiliency Seminar Series
October 24, 2012
The Ohio Society of CPAs, The Accounting Show, Cleveland, OH
-Happiness in the Accounting Profession
October 22
August 3 -8, 2012
American Accounting Association (AAA), Washington, D. C.
-Building Resilience, Well-Being, and Mastery in your Life
-Positively Intervening: Taking your Students from Mediocrity to Flourishing
-Speed Mentoring Panel
-Meaning in Context: Work, Expertise, and Work-Life Balance in the Accounting Profession (paper)
-What Positive Psychology has to offer the Accounting Profession to Improve Work-Life Balance (panel)
-Out-of-the Box Learning for Tax Class: Students CREATE Models, Pamphlets, and a Shoebox Case (poster)
July 20, 2102
Canadian Positive Psychology Conference (CPPA)
-Meaning in the Accounting Profession
May 10 - 12, 2012
AAA Ohio Region, Cincinnati, OH
-Building Resilience, Well-Being, and Mastery in your Life
-Meaning in Context: Preliminary Evidence of Work, Expertise, and Work-Life Balance in the Accounting Profession (paper)
-What Positive Psychology has to offer the Accounting Profession to Improve Work-Life Balance (panel)
May 1, 2012
New website:)
2016
Nov 17 -20
Redesigning your Class using Design Thinking, International Lilly Teaching Conference
Aug 6 - 10
Design Thinking Workshop, American Accounting Association (AAA) annual meeting, NYC.
Creativity Workshop: Geniuses, Aha Moments, and Engaging your Creative Brain, AAA annual meeting, NYC.
June 18 - 21
Want to keep your Talent? Who are the Happiest Accountants and Why?, Institute of Management Accountants, Las Vegas, NV.
Using Games and Design Thinking to Encourage Innovation, Institute of Management Accountants, Las Vegas, NV.
March 30
Using Design Thinking to Resdesign your Class, Youngstown State University.
March 7
Using Design Thinking to Increase Happiness on your Job, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH.
2015
Upward Bound – Removing Impediments to Success, AAA annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Can we be little more like Harvard? Becoming a Better You and Impact in the Valley, Youngstown State University Faculty Development Day.
Creativity, Geniuses, and Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Ohio Region American Accounting Association, Cleveland (2015).
Experiential Sampling Study: Improving the Daily Lives and Well-Being of Accounting Students, 2015 Annual Meeting of the AAA, Chicago, IL.
Meaning and Happiness at the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, 4th World Congress on Positive Psychology.
Experiential Study of Well-Being in the Daily Lives of Accounting Students, AAA, FAST-CA, Chicago, IL.
Meaning at Work: Expertise, Happiness, Job-Satisfaction and Retention for Employees in the Accounting Profession, the Ohio Region AAA meeting, Cleveland, OH.
2014
August 2 -7, 2014
American Accounting Association (AAA), Atlanta, CA
-Exploring the World of Positive Organizational Scholarship
-Traveling through the Neuro-Connected World of Mind, Emotions, and Education.
-Boosting your Psychological Resiliency
-Panel
May 1, 2014
Ohio Region of the AAA, Columbus, OH
-Traveling through the Neuro-Connected World of Mind, Emotion, and Education.
March 28, 2014
Harvard University
-Moderator, Student Presentations on Motivation.
2013
November 21-24, 2013
The Lilly Conference, Oxford, OH
-Improving Student Engagement: Building Mastery and Meaning in Every Class”
-Moving Towards a Strengths-Based Pedagogy”
October 17-19,2013
AAA Midwest Region, Chicago, IL
-Positively Designing a Course Using the Course Crafting Exercise
-How to Mastery and Meaning in Every Class
August 3 -8, 2013
American Accounting Association (AAA), Anaheim, CA
-Developing Character Strengths and Virtues as a Key to Increased Well-Being
-Gamification in the Workplace: Play at Work (panel)
-Developing Stunning Students: How to add Mastery and Meaning to Every Class
-Comparing the Effectiveness of Learning Centers and Writing Circles to Improve Accounting Students' Writing Skills
-Running Circles around Writing: Flourish in your Writing Quality and Productivity
June 22, 2013
The Institute of Management Accountants National Conference (IMA)
-Becoming Awesome: Developing a Resilient Mindset
May 15, 2013
Youngstown State University,
-Becoming a Happier Accounting by Using Your Strengths, Ohio CPE Day.
April 10 and 11, 2013
Youngstown State University
-Breathe New Life into Your Courses Over the Summer: Developing Stunning
Students by Adding Mastery and Meaning to Every Class
2012
November 15 - 18, 2012
The Lilly Teaching Conference, Oxford, OH
-Developing Stunning Students: The Becoming Awesome Resiliency Seminar Series
October 24, 2012
The Ohio Society of CPAs, The Accounting Show, Cleveland, OH
-Happiness in the Accounting Profession
October 22
August 3 -8, 2012
American Accounting Association (AAA), Washington, D. C.
-Building Resilience, Well-Being, and Mastery in your Life
-Positively Intervening: Taking your Students from Mediocrity to Flourishing
-Speed Mentoring Panel
-Meaning in Context: Work, Expertise, and Work-Life Balance in the Accounting Profession (paper)
-What Positive Psychology has to offer the Accounting Profession to Improve Work-Life Balance (panel)
-Out-of-the Box Learning for Tax Class: Students CREATE Models, Pamphlets, and a Shoebox Case (poster)
July 20, 2102
Canadian Positive Psychology Conference (CPPA)
-Meaning in the Accounting Profession
May 10 - 12, 2012
AAA Ohio Region, Cincinnati, OH
-Building Resilience, Well-Being, and Mastery in your Life
-Meaning in Context: Preliminary Evidence of Work, Expertise, and Work-Life Balance in the Accounting Profession (paper)
-What Positive Psychology has to offer the Accounting Profession to Improve Work-Life Balance (panel)
May 1, 2012
New website:)