About Me

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Hi- I’m Johanna Bishop.

I am a scholar/ practitioner experienced at organizing intentional change. I bring an inter-disciplinary perspective to everything I do, having worked in, and extensively studied in, business, industry, and higher education. I am grounded in management and organization theory, learning theory, and cultural perspectives. In practice, I apply sociological principles to create intentional change and maximize human performance improvement.

My experience and expertise include:

• Researching the transmission and collective memory and social cognition of organizational disasters in the nuclear power industry.

• Organizing conferences to bring community members together to raise human trafficking awareness and community capacity building.

• Providing ethics training to government county level employees.

• Creating a culture change to human performance improvement in the nuclear power industry.

• Developing relevant and practice-oriented curricula in higher education.

• Qualitative research methods.

• Leadership development.

• Faculty development.

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My career spans 30+ years working in education , business, and industry. Before joining Wilmington University in 2006, I worked in the nuclear power industry  as an instructional technologist. I was also OSHA safety trained and worked safety during outages, was BRAVO  EP field ​driver, and worked as controller for the first NRC graded force-on-force exercises post 9/11. 

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My interests lie in collective memory and high reliability organizing. 

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Educational Background:

The George Washington University: Ed.D. in Human Resource Development/ Human & Organizational Learning

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Wilmington College: Master of Education in Teaching and Master of Science in Human Resource Management. 

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Central Michigan University: Bachelor of Arts.

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Additional post graduate courses from Western Michigan University, Michigan State University, University of Northern Colorado, and University of Delaware. 

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Professional Associations:

Association of Applied & Clinical Sociology (Lifetime member) Board Member At Large

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American Sociological Association (member since 2007)

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International Sociological Associaction (Lifetime member)

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Academy of Management (member since 2005)

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International Leadership Association

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Journal of Applied Social Sciences,

Editorial Review Board

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Questions? Ask me. ~Johanna

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