Assistant Professor, Center for Applied Conflict Management

Dr. Theresa Repicky has taught courses at the Center for Applied Conflict Management since 2001 including Introduction to Conflict Management, Negotiation, Cross-Cultural Conflict Management, Public Sector Dispute Resolution, and Mediation: Theory and Training, and Disputes Systems Design.

When Dr. Repicky is not teaching courses at Kent, she delivers customized, performance-based training programs to companies. She has trained business executives and sales professionals in negotiation skills, techniques, and strategies to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. In addition, she delivers corporate sales and customer service training that includes improving communication skills, enhancing customer relationships, dealing effectively with angry and difficult people, and selling profitability.

Dr. Repicky has assisted organizations in designing dispute resolution systems and mediation programs and has conducted training programs in conflict management and mediation for communities and organizations. She has mediated a wide variety of disputes including family, custody and visitation, community, and workplace disputes.

She also brings eleven years of experience working for the Fortune 500 Company, Avery-Dennison, where she directed several business segments from both a marketing and sales capacity, to her teaching and training.

Dr. Repicky earned a Masters of Business Administration from Cleveland State University and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office:  321 Bowman Hall, office G
Phone: 440-248-9780; 330-672-8906 during office hours
E-mail:  trepicky@sbcglobal.net

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, 2006
M.B.A., Cleveland State University, 1982
B.S., Bowling Green State University, 1979