Biography
Dr. Wendy Guess, Ph.D., is currently a faculty member in the Department of Marketing and Logistics. Wendy combines a wide variety of professional experience and interests, with her academic training from Texas Woman's University, and Brigham Young University in the disciplines of Health/Wellness, Promotion, Management/Leadership, Physical Activity, and Intercultural Communications Anthropology, During college Wendy was a member of Ballroom and Folk Dance Performing Companies, competing national and performing internationally, as was a National Ballroom Formation Team Champion Team member.
She has continued performing and choreographing, combining the creative and collaborative skills to develop programs for wellness, interactions, including a profile for understanding interaction styles in groups based upon her previous performing experience. Upon arriving at FIU, Wendy has developed and taught hybrid and fully online courses, including a signature course title Health and Fitness Marketing, merging marketing strategy trends with behavioral change science and the Elements of Interaction, adding some neuroscience, social media, predictive communications. Wendy teaches two courses in the Honors College. The Essential Elements of Interaction, which focuses on building the ‘soft’ skills that expand awareness of and capacity for systemic intelligence, wellbeing, communication and self-compassion for thriving in a global economy. The second course, Exploring Culture the Movement and Music explores the transformative power to create, connect and master the understanding of our world through the universal language of movement and music.