Executive Vice President and Provost
Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is the Executive Vice President and Provost of Pacifica Graduate Institute and the author of The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, co-edited by Donna L. Shavlik and Judith G. Touchton; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes That Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform our World; Magic At Work: Camelot, Creative Leadership and Everyday Miracles; The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through The Power of Archetypes, co-authored by Margaret Mark; Mapping the Organization Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change, co-authored by John Corlett ; What Story Are You Living? co-authored with Hugh Marr; and Maturing the American Dream. Many of her publications are available in a growing number of foreign languages.
Dr. Pearson’s scholarly, administrative and teaching have always been in the service of helping people live and work at a deeper level of awareness, allowing individuals, groups and organizations to be more successful as the people in them also experience a greater sense of joy and personal fulfillment. She has promoted these ends in practice in administrative and teaching positions at the University of Maryland, Georgetown, Goucher College, and the University of Colorado.
Bridging theory and practice, Dr. Pearson has worked to translate depth psychological and other theories in ways that help leadership, educators and others, apply them for the good of the world. To this end, she was the Senior Editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice and has developed several reliable and valid instruments, including the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator™ (PMAI) instrument, developed with Hugh Marr; and the Kenexa Cultural Insight Survey (formerly the Organizational and Team Culture Indicator). The OTCI was acquired by Kenexa, a global HR firm, in 2008 where it has been renamed the Kenexa Cultural Insight Survey.] She is currently editing a book, entitled Transformational Thinking for 21st Century Leadership, as part of a three year project with the Fetzer Institute, focusing on the theory and practice of Leadership for Transformation.
