Dr. Ramsey, while not a medical doctor or a licensed psychologist, is an Applied Behavioral Scientist and Educator with experience providing performance improvement, stress management, and human learning interventions in clinical and non-clinical settings. She has incorporated an integrative health background (has been working with mind-body interventions since the 1970's) with the applied behavioral sciences and with her current practice, and has been practicing non-clinical Neurofeedback for purposes of relaxation and to reduce stress since 2003. Dr. Ramsey is certified by the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America in EEG biofeedback, by the Natural Therapies Certification Board as a Certified Nuerotherapy Coach and Instructor and a Certified Biofeedback Specialist. She is also certified by EEG Institute in the Othmer Method. She has completed advanced training requirements with industry leaders from EEG Institute, EEG Spectrum, the Southeastern Biofeedback and Neurobehavioral Institute, and Brainmaster. Dr. Ramsey serves on the Allied Professionals Committee at the Association for Applied  Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Dr. Ramsey's credentials include an MS in Organization Development from American University and a PhD in Intercultural Communication from Union Institute and University. Her credentials have prepared her to: 1) use action research to help individuals and groups define and solve human performance problems, 2) create, administer and interpret reliable and valid performance instruments, 3) make a preliminary [non-medical] diagnosis of complex systems problems, collect, analyze and interpret data, feed back data to a client, and 4) plan appropriate interventions that may include training, facilitation, and coaching. An Applied Behavioral Scientist is trained in multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks that draw from the best of the behavioral sciences, including psychology, human development, planned behavioral change, sociology, verbal and non-verbal communication, cognition, cultural anthropology, and so on. The applied behavioral science disciplines also draw from advanced physics theories, biologically complex systems theories, and learning theories. As an educator, Dr. Ramsey has taught Organizational Learning and Humanities at graduate and undergraduate levels.

Sajeela M. Ramsey

Expanded Biography

Dr. Ramsey completed her undergraduate work in 1988, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Communication at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she produced an advanced thesis on Linguistics, Cognition and Semiotics. Dr. Ramsey completed her Master of Science in Organizational Development in 1997 (with an emphasis on Interpersonal Communication and Learning in Complex Systems) from National Training Laboratories Institute for Applied Behavioral Science at American University’s School of Public Affairs in Washington, DC. Dr. Ramsey completed her doctoral dissertation in 2002 at Union Institute and University in Ohio, where she did research in the areas of tacit or non-verbal behavior, learning and perception across identity groups, and in pedagogy.

As an Applied Behavioral Scientist, Dr. Ramsey worked for over ten years with organizations from diverse industries in the private, not for profit and public sectors. Dr. Ramsey provided training and coaching to executives, cultivating organizational learning and individual performance results. Dr. Ramsey’s professional focus was in the areas of personal and inter-personal communication, motivation and learning, peak performance and workplace renewal.

Past clients include National Training Labs, National Education Association, The World Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Fannie Mae, Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association, DC Consortium of Nursing Education and Practice, Hospice Care of DC, Department of Health and Human Services, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, DC Commission on Mental Health Services, Kaiser Permanente, Informix, Bell Atlantic, International Business Magazine, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, National League of Cities, National Conference for Community and Justice, Special Arts International, University of Toronto, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Terme di Saturnia International.

Articles authored by Dr. Ramsey have appeared in Work Teams Journal, Executive Excellence, Personal Excellence, Nation’s Weekly, and OD Practitioner. Dr. Ramsey’s "Searching for Home in the Marketplace" was featured in an anthology published by New Leader’s Press in 1996. Dr. Ramsey founded and co-chaired the Speaker’s Community of the Chesapeake Bay Organizational Development Network and was a member of the Board in 1999. In addition to serving as a guest speaker and panelist at many conferences and events, she served as adjunct professor at George Mason University’s Program on Social and Organizational Learning and National American University’s Language Arts Department.

Dr. Ramsey has specialized in stress management for over twenty-plus years.

Publications

• Aesthetic Wisdom, Tacit Process and Cultural Marginality; Learning and Complex Systems Change. Unpublished Dissertation. (2002).

• Aesthetic Interventions, Culture and Cognition. Society for International Education Training and Research Metro Washington. March. (2001).
  

• Aesthetic Interventions; Valuing Culture and Connectivity. Annual Conference. WA, DC: Society for International Education Training and Research. November. (1998).
  

• Aesthetic Interventions; Valuing Culture and Intrapersonal Connectivity through the Senses. Annual Conference. WASHINGTON, DC: Society for International Education Training and Research. November. (2000).
  

• Aesthetic Sense; Perception, Tacit Communication and Learning. Journal of American University Training Labs Association. Spring. (1998).

• Aesthetic Interventions; The Art of Composing Organizational Renewal and Well Being in Complex Systems. OD Practitioner, Vols. 28, 29. January. (1996).
  

• Searching for Home in the Marketplace: Cycles of Change. In The New Bottom Line: Bringing Heart and Soul to Business. SF: New Leaders Press. (1996).

• Renewal and Stress Management; A Civil and Global Perspective. Nation's Weekly, April. WA, DC: National League of Cities. (1995).

• Towards ethnorelativism: A developmental model of intercultural sensitivity. Paper presented at Education for the Intercultural Experience Conference, Yarmouth, ME. (1993).
  

• Moving Toward Self-Managed Team Building, Vision and Empowerment. Work Teams Journal, U. of Texas. (1994).

• Learning Pedagogy and Educational Theory: A Complex Systems Paradigm. (2001).

• Paradigm shift continuum/Paradigmatic assumptions. (2000).

• Connective tendrils: Themes from complex systems. (2000).
  

• Executive Coaching Manual: CORE strategies for successful work/life Integration. (1999).

• Cultural awareness: Being as learning and the marginal experience. (1997).

• The goddess at work: biological basis of learning, cognition and communication. (1997).

• Some thoughts on change and learning in complex learning systems. (1993).
  Stress management: Training the trainer. (1992).
  

• Kernels of knowledge. Apriori tertiary learning loops. (1987).
  

• Paralinguistics: Meta-communication for a literate, temporal based culture. (1986).