Presenters: Marian Ruderman, Ph.D Director of Research Horizons Group at The Center for Creative Leadership and Elena Svetieva, Ph.D. – Post Doctoral Fellow at The Center for Creative Leadership

Introduction:  Leadership development coaches are often asked to help clients deal with stress.  Wearables offer promise as tools for helping leaders understand triggers of stress, how stress manifests in the body, and the kinds of methods that may help them best cope with stress.  In this session, we will test out several devices and technologies to better understand how they can be used in leadership development coaching. These devices represent some of the earliest attempts to integrate mental and emotional wellness in bio- technology for everyday use. You are among the first to help us evaluate these devices and think through the value of these tools. 

Marian Ruderman, Director of the Research Horizons Group at the Center for Creative Leadership has over 30 years of experience in the field of leadership development. She has been involved in different aspects of leadership development including research, product development, and management.   Her current research focuses on bringing the latest advances from neuroscience into leadership development. She has written numerous books, articles, and book chapters for scholars, HR professionals and practicing managers. Marian is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and her doctorate in psychology from the University of Michigan.

Elena Svetieva is an emotion scientist and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership. Her research interests are in the experience, expression and regulation of emotion, in which she has authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Her primary role at the Center is focused on creating and incorporating insights from social psychology, affective neuroscience, and psychophysiology in developing emotionally resilient leaders. Elena has her PhD in Communication Science, focusing on emotion and nonverbal communication, from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.