Dena Hurst Email & Phone Number

Tallahassee, Florida Area

I work for the Florida Institute of Government at Florida State University as a researcher and project manager. My background is in leadership and education, and I combine both in my work through the Institute. I lead workshops and presentations on leadership, systems thinking, critical thinking and problem solving, communication, process improvement, and personal coaching and accountability. I also work with individuals as a personal coach.I manage the Certified Chief Information Officer program, a leadership certification for public sector and non-profit Information Technology professionals. I also work as a curriculum developer in partnership with the Florida Association of Supervisors of Elections on the Association's Florida Certified Elections Professional certification program. I develop and manage e-learning programs, including webinars and online courses. I develop training curricula and materials including books, workbooks, videos, podcasts, etc., and I work with local government non-profit organizations in developing in-house training materials.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

I served as the associate editor for the journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, Philosophical Practice. Duties include soliciting appropriate articles and managing the pre-publication processes such as soliciting appropriate articles and managing peer review and article revision.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

I assisted the editorial team with the submission and review process and worked as managing editor.

I assisted in researching leadership, learning, and conversational theories and practices and developing new resource materials.

Responsible for managing day-to-day operations of training and research institute, overseeing support staff and student assistants, assisting director with organizational development and planning.

Phd, Philosophy

Areas of Specialization: Social, Moral and Political Philosophy, and to the extent that they fall under this broad specialization: Applied.

Ma, Philosophy

Ba, Economics/Philosophy

Major field of study: Economics (liberal arts), with a focus on philosophy and theory of economics and theories of econometric analysis.