WORKSHOP ABSTRACT:
Participants will come away with practical strategies for reducing stress and anxiety at work for the sake of reducing burnout and raising employee engagement. Dr. Mauldin and Dr. Iverson bring their global experiences in coaching and consulting with top athletes, businesses, and non-profits to help you better understand your relationship with work and how to best serve with resiliency.
Nathan Iverson, PhD
Nathan Iverson, PhD chose a career in Industrial-Organizational Psychology after several difficult experiences abroad including a winter in Mongolia that turned out to be a natural disaster seeing temperatures of -100° F. His both personal and vicarious experience with burnout among missionaries and pastors set him on a trajectory of question asking regarding well-being in the workplace. Iverson is the founding program director of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at California Baptist University where he built a nationally-ranked graduate program starting in 2016. His consulting, teaching, and scholarship has brought him around the world with ongoing partnerships across sectors in the UK, Mexico, and India.
Nathan holds doctorate and master’s degrees from Seattle Pacific University with a dissertation on Career Development Practices in a Global Economy researching what individuals can do to raise their own job satisfaction.
Upon arrival in Riverside, he has immersed himself in majority Latino Riverside neighborhood Ramona by studying Spanish, serving on the board of a local multi-ethnic church, and mentoring local youth in partnership with Big Brothers, Big Sisters where he was awarded Big of the Year in 2021.
Kristin Mauldin, Ph.D.
Dr. Mauldin graduated with her Ph.D. in psychology from Miami University and conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. She specializes in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory and sport, performance, and exercise psychology. She enjoys her role as a professor of psychology because it gives her the opportunity to study topics she loves while connecting with her students.
As the Director of the Sport and Performance Psychology program at California Baptist University, Dr. Mauldin has had the opportunity to build a graduate program that serves its students and the community.
Dr. Mauldin’s own experience growing up with a physically debilitating disease helped fuel her efforts to design programs that help others increase their own physical and mental health through the use of techniques grounded in psychology. She lives in Idyllwild, CA with her three children.