The Kardia Group

The Kardia Group, led by Diana Kardia, Ph.D., specializes in consulting, coaching, training and other organizational development resources for academic settings.

For academic departments

Disciplinary tensions, academic critique norms, and other factors unique to academia foster complex conflicts and tensions - and these are overlaid on communication issues, identity conflicts, power imbalances, discrimination, competing priorities...

For chairs and deans

The role of department chair or dean requires the knowledge, awareness, and experience of being a member of the faculty - an experience that provides little preparation for the realities of budgets, personnel issues, faculty/staff relations, student complaints, tenure denials... 

For senior faculty

Leading through example, actions, committee work, mentorship, and new initiatives, senior faculty impact students, colleagues, and the larger university in a manner that sets the tone and defines the possibilities of the organization... 

For junior faculty

Junior faculty face the daily irony of pushing the edge of the academic endeavor while facing the necessity of learning the rules, skills, behaviors, and assumptions that ensure success in this environment...

Diversity consultations and workshops

Difference is the source of a richness of ideas, new directions, and continual expansion - much that underlies the academic endeavor. However, distrust, misperceptions, and conflicts related to difference too often impair productivity, decrease satisfaction, and undermine cohesiveness...

Web-based resources

The Kardia Group website is designed to be a repository of resources for participants in the academic endeavor. Case studies, descriptions of academic culture, planning documents, and other resources serve to foster a more strategic, aware, and prepared level of participation in the day-to-day life of colleges and universities.