OUR FACILITATORS
Tina Kirk, MBA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
- Cross-cultural facilitation
- Leadership
- Student development
- Study abroad
PL work
Tina Kirk, MBA, first encountered Personal Leadership in 2004 through graduate-level study at the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) in Portland, Oregon. Her experience since then has taught her that PL offers a transformative reflective process to anyone willing to practice, and in 2010 Tina became a recognized Senior PL Facilitator.
As an educator at Randolph College and PL Facilitator in Virginia, Tina has introduced the practice of PL to study-abroad participants, college residence-life staff, intern teachers, K-12 educators, and healthcare professionals.
In 2015, she offered an introductory PL workshop with colleague Heather Robinson at the annual conference of the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE) in Berlin. In 2016, Tina is co-facilitating Personal Leadership: A Year of Living the Practices. It is an eight-month virtual course designed for individuals who have taken either a PL Foundations or a Training of Facilitators program, to help them deepen their own experience and understanding of the two principles and six practices of PL.
Other work
After graduating from college, Tina taught English in Perm, Russia, from 1996 to 1998 as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
She has been working in higher education since then, and now serves as Assistant Director of Study Abroad at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma. She has held director-level positions in study abroad at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and in experiential learning as well as study abroad at Randolph College, formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Personal background
Tina is of German and American heritage, and grew up in Oklahoma City. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad for an academic year in Reading, England. And after living for two years in Perm, Tina is conversationally fluent in Russian. She’s still working on her elementary German language skills, though!
Academic
Tina earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations with an emphasis on Russian studies from Randolph-Macon. She completed her Master’s of Business Administration at Oklahoma City University in July 2012, and she has eighteen hours of graduate work in the ICI Master’s program in Intercultural Relations.
Other interests
Tina enjoys practicing Anusara yoga, drumming on her West African djembe, travelling, and sampling all sorts of international cuisine.
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