Barbara Vallera
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Dr. Barbara Vallera is an Adjunct, Assistant Professor in the Kakos School of Arts and Sciences, Organizational Leadership Department, Manhattan University in Riverdale, New York. She is an expert in organizational leadership, performance management, and best-practice change strategies. Her expertise extends to supervisory assessment, leadership development, mentorship, succession planning programs, culture change interventions, human resources and employee relations initiatives, and employee training and development program design and implementation.
Barbara "Dr. Barb", has a unique, blended background in professional education, curriculum and research, business/management, and organizational leadership. Her professional career includes management positions at Barclays Bank, United Technologies Corporation, Eastern Connecticut Healthcare Network (ECHN), and Kaman Aerospace Corporation.
In these organizations, Dr. Vallera’s leadership role in the human resources function focused on designing and implementing best practice employee/organizational goals, including online learning platforms, lean training, process improvement workshops, new supervisor leadership assessment centers, mentoring implementation, and succession planning strategies. She has also served as a senior management consultant for domestic and international corporate clients.
D.M. University of Phoenix, Division of Advanced Studies, Organizational Leadership, 2007
M.S. Master of Science in Management for Health Care Executives, Rensselaer at Hartford, School of Management, 1995
M.S Master of Science in Management, awarded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1982
M.S. Master of Science in Professional Education, Division of Research, Curriculum, and Supervision: Central Connecticut State University, 1980
B.S. Bachelor of Science, Secondary Education, English, and Speech Communications: The University of Connecticut, 1973
Vallera, Barbara. “A Study of Corporate Board Accountability for Best-Practice, Organizational Reform Based On Governance Research Theory.” Presentation and in Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Eastern Division International Conference. Rio, Brazil, June, 2009.
Vallera, Barbara. “Seeing What You Cannot See: Identifying Blind Spots to Leadership Mastery.” Presentation and in Proceedings of the NACRA 33rd Annual Case Association Conference. Hartford, Connecticut, May 13-16, 2009.
Vallera, Barbara. “From Curriculum to Reality.” Presentation and in Proceedings of the Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, MOBTC 2009. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 21, 2009.
Vallera, Barbara. “A Study of Corporate Board Accountability for Best-Practice, Organizational Reform Based on Governance Research Theory.”
Proceedings of the American Society for Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) Annual International Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, March, 2007.
Reviewer and Conference “Session Chair” for Leadership Track at EAM 2012:
Eastern Academy of Management Conference May 2012 Philadelphia, PA
Eastern Academy of Management: Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and
Sustainability Track, International Conference, June, 2009, Rio, Brazil.
Case Research Association at the Eastern Academy of Management Conference, May 13-16, 2009, Hartford, Connecticut.
MOBTC-2013 Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference “Call for Session Proposals” March 23, 2013 “The Regenerative Class: achieving high quality and high quantity in the online classroom”.
Vallera, B. Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility in the Classroom: Challenging students to practice social responsibility, ethical behavior, sustainability and corporate responsibilities in their personal and academic experiences.
On Governance Research Theory.” Presentation and in Proceedings of the Academy of Management, Eastern Division International Conference. Rio, Brazil, June, 2009.
Vallera, Barbara. “Seeing What You Cannot See: Identifying Blind Spots to Leadership Mastery.” Presentation and in Proceedings of the NACRA 33rd Annual Case Association Conference. Hartford, Connecticut, May 13-16, 2009.
Vallera, Barbara. “From Curriculum to Reality.” Presentation and in Proceedings of the Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, MOBTC 2009. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 21, 2009.
Vallera, Barbara. “A Study of Corporate Board Accountability for Best-Practice, Organizational Reform Based on Governance Research Theory.”
Proceedings of the American Society for Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) Annual International Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, March, 2007.
Reviewer and Conference “Session Chair” for Leadership Track at EAM 2012:
Eastern Academy of Management Conference May 2012 Philadelphia, PA
Eastern Academy of Management: Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and
Sustainability Track, International Conference, June, 2009, Rio, Brazil.
Case Research Association at the Eastern Academy of Management Conference, May 13-16, 2009, Hartford, Connecticut.
MOBTC-2013 Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference “Call for Session Proposals” March 23, 2013 “The Regenerative Class: achieving high quality and high quantity in the online classroom”.
Vallera, B. Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility in the Classroom: Challenging students to practice social responsibility, ethical behavior, sustainability and corporate responsibilities in their personal and academic experiences.
The Sloan Consortium for Online Learning in Higher Education (Sloan-C)
Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (MOBTC) 2013
Eastern Academy of Management
Organizational Behavior Teaching Society