Professional Speaking Engagements
Invited Keynote Presentations
Candor and Trust: Increasing Employee Engagement. Baruch College EMSAI Team Professional Workshop, New York, NY.
Thinking on the Fly: Managing Tough Workplace Conversations. Baruch College Sigma Alpha Delta Professional Workshop, New York, NY.
The V's of Self Presentation: Verbal, Visual, and Vocal. Sigma Alpha Delta Professional Workshop, New York, NY.
Managing Tough Workplace Conversations. Baruch College Conversation Partners Program Professional Workshop, New York, NY.
Making it Right Before it Goes Wrong: Identifying Epistemic Denial. Innovations in Obstetrical, Neonatal, and Pediatric Care Symposium, Miami, FL.
Research Paper Presentations
Organizational Practices Leading to Closeting: The Interactional Construction of ‘Closets’. Social Construction Division, NCA Convention, Virtual. November 2020.
Illegitimate Task Requests in the Workplace. Organizational Communication Division, NCA Convention, Philadelphia, PA. November 2016. (2016 Stanley L. Saxon Applied Research Award)
Making a Difference: Creating Student Engagement in “Real World” Influence. Experiential Learning Division, NCA Convention, Las Vegas, NV. November 2015
Discursive Leadership: Harmonious and Discordant Framing-to-Sensemaking Outcomes. Organizational Communication Division, NCA Convention, Chicago, IL. November 2014
Sigma Alpha Delta Invited Speaker
Jackson Health System Keynote
Entrepreneurial Concerns: Communication and Leadership Issues within the Disengagement/Growth Phase in the Organizational Life Cycle of Small Businesses. Organizational Communication Mini Conference, Norman, OK. October 2012
Negotiating the Meaning of Organizational Expertise: Firefighters’ Epistemic Denial. Group Communication Division, NCA Convention, New Orleans, LA. November 2011 (2011 Stanley L. Saxon Applied Research Award)
Cultural Adaptation of an MNC in Mexico: A Success Story. Intercultural Communication Division, NCA Convention, New Orleans, LA. November 2011
Diffusion and Glocalization: Dialectical Tensions for Wal-Mart in Mexico. Communication and the Future Division, NCA Convention, New Orleans, LA. November 2011 (Top Paper Award)
Cyberterrorist Messages: The Effects on Targets. Communication and the Future Division, NCA Convention, New Orleans, LA. November 2011
“I CMC U”: An Open Dialectic on the Past, Present, and Future Continuum of CMC Research and CMC’s roles of Relevance and Potentiality in Communication Studies. Annual Sooner Communication Conference, Norman, OK. March, 2011.
Diffusion Practices: Wal-Mart in Mexico. Annual Sooner Communication Conference, Norman, OK. March 2011
Propaganda Use in Cyberterrorism: An Updated Examination. Communication and the Future Division, NCA Convention, San Francisco, CA. November 2010
New Trends in Globalization: An Examination of the Brazilian case. Communication and the Future Division, NCA convention, San Francisco, CA. November 2010. (Top Paper Award)
Cyberterrorist Messages: A Semiotic Perspective. Communication and the Future Division, NCA Convention, Chicago, IL. Noember 2009
Cyberterrorism: Its Effects on Health Related Infrastructures. Communication and the Future Division, NCA Convention, San Diego, CA. November 2008
Imagined Communities and Their Virtual Presence. FCA Conference, Gainesville, FL. October, 2008