Johanna Bishop brings her experience in organizational training and development using a human performance improvement model emphasizing a systematic approach to problem solving and change management. As Director of Behavioral Science Programs and professor at Wilmington University, Johanna brings a variety of work experience into the classroom as she prepares students to meet the challenges of the working world head-on. She has created a focus on information literacy, research, and academic writing in the undergraduate Behavioral Science curriculum so as to prepare students to be critical thinkers and intelligent problem solvers. Her teaching experience includes applied research methods, sociology, organizational behavior, social change, communications, leadership, and organization theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels. In her leadership as Director, Johanna has developed both the undergrad and graduate behavioral science programs into the online environment, and implemented the CAST program.
While working as Instructional Technologist in the nuclear power industry, she trained the trainers at the second largest nuclear power generating facility in southern NJ. In addition, ohanna used a human performance improvement model to develop middle-level management development programs and First-Line Supervisor training to meet accreditation compliance in the nuclear power industry. While working in the nuclear power industry, she had a position on the Emergency Preparedness team, and also obtained OSHA safety certification and worked as safety monitor during refueling outages. After 9/11 she worked as controller in NRC mandated Force-On-Force nuclear security training exercises.
Her past experience also includes a mission to Thailand for International Atomic Energy Commission, where she conducted training on the SAT process, recruiting and retaining personnel, and workforce development.
Johanna has a proven background in building coalitions for change in organizational training and development. She built a coalition of chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industry partners in developing a competency-based chemical process technician curriculum inNew Jerseyin collaboration with the American Chemical Society. While coordinator of Customized Training at Salem Community College, she built a consortium of industry training partners in order to secure +3 Min workforce training/ development funding from the NJ Department of Labor and delivered 2300 hours of training a year for employees of four major chemical industries in the South Jersey area.
Her current professional activities include serving as a Council member for the Public Sociology/ Sociological Practice section of the American Sociological Association, active member of Women In Nuclear Region I, and since 2008, active participation as moderator in the Emergency Management Institute’s Conference for Higher Education.
Currently working on her doctoral dissertation, Johanna is researching organizational learning at The George Washington University’s Executive Leadership Program, and has an appointment on Delaware’s New Castle County Ethics Commission.
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