Faculty Spotlight #5

Helena Maria Ting, Ed.D.

Professor and Director, Business Psychology Program

Dr. Ting earned her doctorate degree in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco (USF). Her dissertation title was, "The Relationship Between Team Effectiveness and Job Performance", comparing Malaysian and Californian teams. She was on the adjunct faculty in the Leadership and Organization Doctorate Program in the School of Education at USF for seven years and in the Organization Psychology Doctorate Program at the California School of Professional Psychology for two years. She has over twenty years of national and international experience in education management, high technology business planning and strategy, organization design, and management training development with a variety of companies including AMD, National Semiconductor, Daimler-Benz, and Lucent. As Senior Vice President at Visa, Inc., she fostered best-in-class organization and business development before starting her own consulting practice. Helena speaks Chinese, has traveled extensively in Europe, Scandinavia, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia, and appreciates different cultures and religions.