Jeannel King
Jeannel
King
Adjunct Faculty
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Roles:
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Adjunct Professor
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Writing Services Manager
Campus:
- Saybrook University
- College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences
Website:
- Online Curriculum Vitae
- Department
- Humanistic Clinical Psychology
- Institution
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Saybrook University
- Biography
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Dr. Jeannel King is the kind of faculty member who helps you turn your questions into purpose and your purpose into rigorous, soul-centered scholarship. She teaches graduate-level courses at Saybrook University in heuristic inquiry, humanistic psychology, creativity, leadership, and the transformational edges of consciousness and spirituality. With a creative organizational consultant background, Jeannel brings real-world insight, deep listening, and intuitive depth to everything she does. Her research explores what it means to live a calling, how creativity and spirituality shape human experience, and what happens when we finally question who gets to decide what counts as "real" knowledge. She is especially curious about how methodological traditions, such as the dominance of quantitative methods, have shaped fields like calling, creativity, and consciousness. As a published author, award-winning scholar, and frequent presenter at international conferences, Jeannel is as comfortable on stage as she is in a one-on-one Zoom with a student chasing a big idea. An alumna, writing coach, and adjunct faculty member, she brings a full-circle commitment to Saybrook's mission and is known for helping students do the kind of research that changes them from the inside out. Her enduring passion lies in advancing humanistic scholarship and transforming the way scholars communicate their work: with depth, voice, and integrity.
- Areas of Expertise
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Area Expertise Business/IO Psychology Transpersonal Management Consciousness & Spirituality Studies Spirituality Creativity Studies Arts and healing Creativity Leadership & Management Leadership Approaches and Practices Organizational Change and Transformation Psychology Humanistic Psychology Research Design/Methodology Heuristic Research Qualitative Inquiry - Education History
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Degree Institution Year BA San Diego State Unviersity, San Diego, CA 2005 MNM Regis University, Denver, CO 2007 PhD Saybrook University, Pasadena, CA 2024 - Professional Memberships
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Role Organization Junior Member Interntional Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation Past Secretary/Archivist Academy of Management - Management, Spirituality, and Religion Division Past President International Forum of Visual Facilitators - Community Involvement
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Role Organization Host, Academic Writers Room London Writers Salon Peer Reviewer Journal of Academic Writing - Curriculum Vitae
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- Presentations
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Title Location Date Link Dancing in the Spaces Between the Numbers: Heuristic Inquiry’s Impact on a Quantitative-Dominant Research Field Cambridge, England July 2024 Possibility Studies Network Conference - presentation abstract 
Exploring Creativity in Research: A Heuristic Inquiry Unveiled Presentation Ashland, OR May 2024 Beyond Process: Unveiling the Creative Essence of Living One’s Calling Ashland, OR May 2024 Dissertation Success Pasadena, CA January 2024 Creative-Spiritual Agency and Meaningful Work: An Emerging Theoretical Framework Boston, MA August 2023 “Daily Bread and Daily Meaning:” Workshopping Creative-Spiritual Agency and an Emerging Framework for Meaningful Work Ashland, OR May 2023 Engaging Creativity and Beyond: Program Planning for Higher Education: Part 2 (Experiential; Jeannel King and Robert Cleve, Co-presenters) Ashland, OR May 2023 Engaging Creativity and Beyond: Program Planning for Higher Education: Part 1 (Theoretical; Robert Cleve and Jeannel King, Co-presenters) Ashland, OR May 2023 The Future of Management, Spirituality, and Religion Vienna, Austria September 2022 Creativity at Work: An Invitation to Systemic Change in the Workplace (Co-presenters: Jeannel King, Roxy Hornbeck, Elaine Blasi) Ashland, OR July 2022 Walking Between Worlds with the Creative Eye of Contemplation Ashland, OR July, 2021 Not Over but Through: Towards a New Model for Facilitating Organizational Culture Change Virtual Conference May 2021 - Research
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Lived Experiences
Calling
Work as Calling
Organizational Change
Creativity at Work
Agency
Researcher Epistemologies
Methodological Hegemonies
- Publications
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Book King, J. (2014). Draw forth: How to host your own visual conversations without having to be a professional artist or a full-on facilitator. : Papumiho Press.
Chapter King, J. (2023). Exploring meaningful work through creative-spiritual agency. In Marques, J. (Ed.) The Palgrave handbook of fulfillment, wellness, and personal growth at work (pp. 183-208). : Palgrave Macmillan.
King, J. (2023). Not over but through: Towards a new model for facilitating organizational transition. In Maheshwari, A. K. (Ed.) Consciousness-based leadership and management, volume 2: Organizational and cultural approaches to oneness and flourishing (pp. 223-242). : Springer International Publishing.
King, J. (2019). One visual meeting creates one huge shift. In Blijsie, J., Hammons, T., & Smith, R. S. (Ed.) Future possibilities for the field of management, spirituality, and religion (pp. 372-378). : The Visual Connection Publishers.
Cleve, R., King, J., & Espinosa, I. (2025). The evolution of creativity programs at Saybrook University. In G. J. Puccio, A. Lohiser, C. A. McKayle, & F. Hertel (Ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Creativity in Global Higher EducationCham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Encyclopedia King, J. (2025). Meaningful Work. In S. Dhiman (Ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Leadership and Organizational Change. ( pp. p 1-4 ). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal King, J. (2025). Qualitative insights into the complexity of calling: Moving beyond quantitative boundaries. The Qualitative Report, ,
Other King, J. (2007). Future possibilities for the field of management, spirituality, and religion. Conference white paper.
- Professional Skills
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Academic Coaching, Academic Writing, APA, Authentic Leadership, Coaching, Collaboration, Collage Arts, Creative Problem-Solving, Creative-Spiritual Agency, Creativity, Creativity as Experience, Creativity at Work, Creativity at Work in the World, Dissertation, Heuristic Inquiry, Humanistic Leadership, Innovation, Leadership, Lived Experience, Living a Calling, Living a Calling Relational Life Cycle, Meaningful Work, Mentoring, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting, Organizational Transformation, PhD Life, Presentation Coaching, Qualitative Research, Scholarly Communication, Structural Editing, Transpersonal Leadership, Visual Facilitation, Work as Calling
