Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Fostering inclusive, multicultural environments
• Intergroup Relations
• Development of “non-traditional leaders” in organizations such as women and people of color
• Transformative communication across differences including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, social class, age and style
• Nonverbal and verbal communication effectiveness
• Coaching & mentoring across cultures.
• Coordinated Management of Meaning
• Transformative Learning
• Social and Ecological Justice
• Achievement Gap & Increasing Latino College Completion
• Fostering inclusive, multicultural organizations
• Intergroup Relations
• Development of "non-traditional leaders" in organizations. such as women and people of color
• Transformative communication across differences including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, social class, age and style
• Nonverbal and verbal communication effectiveness
• Coaching & mentoring across cultures

Professional Memberships:

Publications:

• New perspectives on racial identity development: A theoretical and practical anthology
• Emerging leadership among Hispanic women: The role of expressive behavior and nonverbal skill
• Mexican Americans in the workforce: Culture, career and family
• Latinos and racial identity development
• Environmental influences and personal choice: A humanistic perspective on acculturation
• Acculturation and health beliefs of Mexican Americans regarding tuberculosis prevention
• Creede, C., Fisher-Yoshida, B., Gallegos, P. (2012). The Facilitative, Interpretive and Reflective Practices of the Coordinated Management of Meaning: Making Lives, Making Meaning. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. (in press)
• Gallegos, P.I. & Ferdman, B.M. (2011). Latina and Latino Ethnoracial Identity Orientations: A Dynamic and Developmental Perspective. In C. L. Wijeyesinghe & B.  W. Jackson III (Eds.), New perspectives on racial identity development: A theoretical and practical anthology  New York: New York University Press. (in press)
• Schapiro, S., Wasserman, I.C., Gallegos, P.  (2011) Group Work and Dialogue: Spaces and Processes for Transformative Learning In Relationship. In E. Taylor & Cranton, P. (Eds.), The Handbook of Transformative Learning. (in press)
• Williams, H., Gallegos, P., and Howard, D., [guest editors] (Fall 2009). Organization Development and Diversity Consulting = Systemic Change for Social Justice and Equity?. A Special Issue of Tamara Journal for Critical Organizational Inquiry.
• Wasserman, I. C., Gallegos, P. V., & Ferdman, B. M. (2008). Dancing with resistance: Leadership challenges in fostering a culture of inclusion. In K. M. Thomas (Ed.),  Diversity resistance in organizations (pp. 175-200). New York: Taylor and Francis.
• November 2008: Latino/a identity orientations: Towards a dynamic and developmental perspective. Paper presented at the National Latina/o Psychological Association 2008 Conference, Costa Mesa, CA.
• Gallegos, P. V., Ferdman, B.M. (2007). Latino Identity Orientations: Implications for Leaders and Organizations. The Business Journal of Hispanic Research.
• Wasserman, I. C., Gallegos, P. V., & Ferdman, B. M. (in press). Dancing with resistance: Leadership challenges in fostering a culture of inclusion. In K. M. Thomas (Ed.), Diversity resistance in organizations:  Manifestations and solutions. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Ferdman, B.M. & Gallegos, P. I. (2001).  Latinos and racial identity development.  In C. L. Wijeyesinghe & B.  W. Jackson III (Eds.), New perspectives on racial identity development: A theoretical and practical anthology  (pp. 32-66). New York: New York University Press.
• Ferdman, B. M. & Gallegos, P. I. (2001, June). Racial identity of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.  Major workshop presented at the 14 th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher  Education, Seattle. 
• Reimann, J. O. F., Ferdman, B. M., Velasquez, R. J., & Gallegos, P. I. (2000, November). Mexican Americans  in the workforce: Culture, career, and family. Paper presented at Latino Psychology 2000: Bridging Our Diversity, San Antonio, Texas.  

Presentations:

Funded Grants/Contracts:

Professional Experience:

• Active organizational development practitioner for over 25 years
• Consulted to Fortune 100 companies across many industries including healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, auto industry,  as well as non-profit, educational institutions and government agencies.
• Conducted Personal Development Laboratories through the National Training Labs for over ten years
• Received advanced training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.  
  

Other Professional Activities:

• Conducted Personal Development Laboratories through the National Training Labs for over ten years