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                                                BIO
     BOB REESE, PhD, is the Director of Humanities & Social Sciences and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Jefferson College of Health Sciences (JCHS) in Roanoke, VA. He is also a Success Coach and Leadership Development Specialist who practiced as an Athletic Trainer in the NFL for 25 years. Additionally, he serves as a faculty member of the Carilion Leadership Institute where he facilitates new managers in the Carilion Health System, the Roanoke Valleys’ largest employer, in effective leadership and motivational techniques.
      His interest and experience in performance enhancement led to the creation of Reese Resolution Services (RRS), an education and performance consulting firm co-founded with his wife, Joan. The RRS mission is to facilitate individuals and groups in realizing their highest potential.
From 1998 until 2002, Bob was affiliated as a Project Director and Master Facilitator for The Pacific Institute (TPI), a corporation dedicated to personal and organizational growth and development. As the National Campus Coordinator for the Education Initiative of TPI, he assisted post-secondary schools with methods to increase student retention. It was at TPI that Bob first began developing distance learning curricula.
     Reese received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University in 1970. From 1970-72, he served as Head Athletic Trainer at Boston College. Bob served for five seasons as an Assistant Athletic Trainer with the Buffalo Bills, and was Head Athletic Trainer for the New York Jets from 1977 to 1996. Bob, along with his assistants, were the first recipients of the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year award in 1985, and in 1994 he received the National Athletic Trainer’s Association’s Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award. Reese was also the premier recipient of the NFL Physicians Society Cain-Fain Memorial Outstanding Athletic Trainer - 1996 for his work in incorporating peak performance concepts into the Sports Medicine model utilized in the NFL. This innovation shortened the down time for injured players by accelerating their healing and rehabilitation.
      Bob also spent time at the West Point Center for Enhanced Performance, the premier performance enhancement facility in the world. He became so interested in what it took to achieve and maintain peak performance, that he formalized his studies by obtaining a Masters Degree in Psychology from Regis University in Denver, CO. For his Master’s Project he developed a Certification for Mental Skills Training by modeling and combining the most popular and successful motivational programs with sound psychological tenets.
     Reese earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA., in Education: Curriculum & Instruction with a Cognate in Sport Psychology. His dissertation was entitled: The Impact of a Mental Skills Training Program for Enhanced Performance on a Varsity Intercollegiate Volleyball Team: A Case Study Program Evaluation of an Educational Intervention. Bob conducted an 85% positive program evaluation of the Winner’s Mentality program described in his book, Develop the Winner’s Mentality, with a Division I NCAA Volleyball Team.
     Reese joined JCHS in 2002 and quickly incorporated his knowledge and skills in curriculum development and distance learning into the Psychology curriculum. He updated and redesigned courses in General, Developmental, and Abnormal Psychology, created a course in the Psycho-Social Aspects of Rehabilitation for the Physical Therapists Assistant program, and also created a Positive Psychology course for the new Health Psychology program. Bob has been named the E-Teacher of the Year twice (2003, 2006) at JCHS. In 2006 was promoted to Associate Professor and at that time he also assumed the position of Director of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department.
     Besides his work in education, Reese is a Success Coach. His clients include corporate executives, entertainers and TV personalities, and sales professionals for large corporations and small businesses as well as numerous individual entrepreneurs and health and legal professionals. Bob’s athletic clients are comprised of U.S. Olympic Athletes, Professional Athletes (NFL, NHL, LPGA, & USTA), and a broad sampling of Amateur, College and High School athletes.
     Bob’s first book is Develop the Winner's Mentality: 5 Essential Mental Skills for Enduring Success by Xlibris Publishing (2005).

                                              BIO
     Joan Reese, JD, is a life-long learner. She is in the process of research and of writing essays to advance to candidacy for a Ph.D. in Human Science at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, CA. Human science is a transdisciplinary approach that seeks to study and to understand human beingness from philosophical, psychological, scientific, subjective, personal, historical, contextual, cross-cultural, political, and spiritual perspectives. Human scientists design research approaches to study qualities of human experience - not just quantities as in logical positivist research. They also design methodologies for individuals to adapt to their processes of intuitive-creativity and of self-actualization.
     Joan chose to pursue a Ph.D. in Human Science because she is interested in the nature of consciousness and how consciousness (e.g. outlook and perspective) informs our ways of understanding, of interpreting, and of knowing ourselves, others, and the rapidly changing complex world in which we live. Human scientists believe that there are more ways to knowledge and to understanding than logic and intellectual thinking. Intuition, sensing, and experiencing are some of the other ways we understand, interpret, and create knowledge.
     While she has always been deeply interested in these subjects, she would say that her interests began to mature while she was a lawyer. She has a Juris Doctor degree in law. For over seventeen years, she was a litigator. She was constantly intrigued by litigants, eyewitnesses, judges, and lawyers who saw one situation in startling different ways. She realized that litigation did not reach the real conflicts: the diverse ways people perceive, understand, and interpret. So, she began mediating in the 1980's. It did not take her long to realize that the prevailing mediation model often failed for the same reasons. Joan designed a process that she called “conflict transformation mapping" to address the underlying issues that these models could not reach.
     As a result, interesting doors opened for her and she stopped litigating. Since the 1980’s, she has focused her education, training, and professional practices into these areas: transformative conflict resolution, hypnotherapy, regression therapy, Naikan therapy, Morita therapy, Qabala, Tarot, Reiki, spiritual direction, success coaching, the enneagram, intuitive-creative facilitation, and, of course, teaching. Joan’s experiences and curiosity kept taking her deeper into the study of the nature of consciousness, of the relationship between intuition and creativity, and of personality transformation. This led to her decision to pursue a Ph.D.
     The focus of her doctoral research at Saybrook is her postulated construct of the intuitive-creative process. Her research is at the nexus of consciousness research, creativity studies, hermeneutics, and psychology (humanistic, transpersonal, personality, projection, and cognitive). She has completed a concentration in Consciousness and Spirituality and two graduate certificate programs: Creativity Studies and Expressive Arts for Healing and Social Change - a Person-Centered Approach. She anticipates completing her doctoral program in Spring 2009.