Dian Killian, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Custom-designed with teams of trainers and support staff hundreds of training/coaching programs for international clientele across the public and private sectors, from start-ups to multinational Fortune 500 companies, 3rd level educational institutions, and NGOs. Recent highlights include prototyping the virtual training format for traditional 9-day intensives for cnvc.org (including developing browser-based NVC games and teaching tools); a 9-month train-the-trainer program on ‘Bringing NVC into the workplace’ for NVC Academy; a two-year leadership development program for Camphill Foundation (now in its 2nd iteration); and a recurring staff workshop series at Cornell University.

Brooklyn, Ny

Founded and developed non-profit board and organization, trained and managed full-time and contractual staff. Created hybrid in-person and remote training programs for international teams (UN Development Program and Merck, Inc.); co-designed a seminal double-blind study on the effectiveness of NVC training in the workplace, achieving and documenting significant benefits within teams and cross-team collaborations in the IT department of a Fortune 500 company: 100% of participants experienced increased efficiency in their own work and that of colleagues with at least 70% improvement on every indicator in the study, including 67-90% reduction in time to resolve conflicts.

Ny, Ny

Designed and led training for freelance creatives on intellectual property rights and contract negotiation; led highly successful campaigns on digital-rights including building and winning a case in the U.S. Supreme Court against “all-rights contracts” at The New York Times; mobilized numerous national committees within union membership, including diversity and inclusion.

Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses including an Honors Seminar on Irish Cultural Studies; wrote and created The CWRU Survival Handbook for International Graduate Teaching Assistants Guide; designed and implemented university-wide English as a Second Language (ESL) support and assessment programs for international teaching assistants, including hiring and managing program staff.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Designed and led highly experiential "direct language method" courses for beginner to advanced ESL students, including intensive training for business clients, to Cambridge Certificate level proficiency.

Ph.D., (Focus On Cultural Studies/Critical And Narrative Theory)

M. Phil., Anglo-Irish Literature (Focus On Cultural-Historical Contexts And Rhetorical Theory)

Ba, English (Focus On Classical And Modern Rhetoric And Applied Linguistics)