Jane D. Brooker, Ph.D., MBA

Jane Brooker 2025

Jane D. Brooker

Ph.D., MBA

Header School of Business

Assistant Professor of Business

College of Innovation, Discovery and Enterprise

Biography

Jane Brooker earned a B.A. in Business Administration and Business Education from Cedarville University, an M.B.A. from University of Findlay, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Workforce Education with an emphasis in Human Resource Development/Organization Development and Cooperative Education in May 2020 from Pennsylvania State University. Her research includes interpersonal competencies, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness.

Jane has 20 years of teaching in K-12 business and technology classes and over seven years’ experience in the collegial level business and education courses. She has taught educational strategies and professional development to Career and Technology educators at The Pennsylvania State University. Jane has taught first-year level classes of Introduction to Business and Foundations of Business; upper level Business Communications; Instructional Strategies; Insurance and Risk Management; Field Experience and Business Education Seminar to Business Education majors; business internships; PACES class to students on academic probation; and was faculty advisor for a Learning Community for first year students in the College of Business.

On a personal level, she competed in three Olympic Trials for Track and Field (‘88, ‘92, ‘96), has two grown children and five grandchildren, and enjoys outdoor activities with her husband.

• 2014–2020, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA: Ph.D. in Workforce Education

• 2003-2007, University of Findlay, Findlay, OH: Masters in Business Administration with concentration in Organizational Leadership

• 1982-1986, Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH: Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration/Business Education

• Insurance and Risk Management 

• Operations Management 

• Cooperative Education/Internships

• Entrepreneurship 

• Introduction to Sales

• Strategic Management
 

Research includes interpersonal competencies, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness.

• Competed in three Olympic Trials for Track and Field (‘88, ‘92, ‘96)

• Economic Teacher of the Year

• Certificate of Insurance Literacy from the Griffith Insurance Education Foundation

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Brooker, J., O’Connor, M., & Roseland, D. (2022). An Investigative Case Study of Mindfulness Training in a K-12 Public School District Using the CARE for Teachers Training. Journal of Research in Business Education, 62(1)

• Brooker, J. & O’Connor, M. (2021). Case Study for insurance executives concerning emotional intelligence and interpersonal competencies (Being written)

 

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

Peer reviewed:

• Brooker, J. (2020) Entrepreneurial Education. NBEA Yearbook

 

EDITOR REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Brooker, J. (Summer 2015) A story worth sharing. PAMIC Pulse (Journal for Pennsylvania Association for Mutual Insurance Companies) invited article

• Brooker, J. (Spring 2022) Mindfulness for educators. NBEA Business Forum. Invited article

PRESENTATIONS – NATIONAL AND STATE LEVEL

• O’Connor, M. & Brooker, J. (2021, November). Mindfulness strategies for school and life. PBEA (Pennsylvania Business Education Association) Convention

• Brooker, J. and Victoria Kerr. (2020, April). Suitable App: Increasing student engagement and career readiness through an undergraduate business course. NBEA (National Business Education Association) Virtual National Convention

• Blaszczynski, C., O’Connor, M., and Brooker, J. (2019, April). Panel discussion on mindfulness in K-12 education. NBEA National Convention

• Brooker, J. (2019, November). An investigation of interpersonal and emotional intelligence competencies for early-career insurance professionals across mutual insurance companies. NABET (National Association of Business, Economics, and Technology) National Convention

• Brooker, J. (2018, April). Mindfulness in K-12 education. NBEA National Convention

• Park, S., Nichols, J., and Brooker, J. (2014). Implementing Soft Skills in a Career and Technical School. ACTE (Association for Career and Technical Education) National Convention

• Brooker, J. (2012, November). The Hard Facts about Soft Skills. PBEA (Pennsylvania Business Education Association) Convention

• Brooker, J. (2012, June). Mindfulness in K-12 education. PACTA (Pennsylvania Career and Technical Education Association) Convention

Student Involvement Committee

PAMIC (Pennsylvania Mutual Insurance Companies)

Committee responsible for implementing a Risk Management/Insurance major at Bloomsburg University and other local universities

 

Bloomsburg University

Participated and volunteered in several undergraduate and graduate graduations overseeing students

Guest expert on Mindfulness in Information Technology classes

Routledge, Taylor, and Frances Group, New York, New York

Blind Peer Reviewer

 

Pennsylvania Business Education Association

Vice President, 2022

 

National Association of Business, Economics, and Technology

Session chair at 2014, 2017-2020 conventions

Co-editor for the 2021 Proceedings Journal

 

National Business Education Association

Assistant Coordinator, 2021 Business Education Research National Conference, New Orleans, LA

Coordinator, 2022 Business Education Research National Conference, Chicago, IL

 

Association for Career and Technical Education Research

Peer reviewer for 2021 Research Presentations for National Conference

 

National Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE)

Pennsylvania Association for Career and Technical Education (PA-ACTE)

National Business Education Association (NBEA)

Pennsylvania Business Education Association (PBEA)

National Association of Business, Economics, and Technology (NABET)

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES - STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

Vocational Instructional I/Cooperative Education 7-12

Instructional II – Marketing (Distributive) Education, PK-12

Instructional II – Business – Computer Information Technology, PK-12

Instructional II - Office Technologies 7-12

Instructional II - Business-Computer Information Technology PK-12

Instructional II - Data Processing PK-12

Certificate of Insurance Literacy from the Griffith Insurance Education Foundation