Work and Related Experience

• Dr. Powell was a founding partner of Princeton Psychological Associates which provided individual and family counseling services for clients during the period 1984 – 1988.
• In 1988 Dr. Powell founded the Princeton Center for Leadership Training (now the Center for Supportive Schools), a non-profit company which has grown into one of the region’s leading providers of programs and services focused on student leadership development and school reform. Under Dr. Powell’s leadership, the Princeton Center expanded her peer leadership model, Peer Group Connection, which now operates in thousands of public and private schools throughout New Jersey and the U.S. including dozens of schools in Central New Jersey such as Princeton High School, Princeton Day School, South Brunswick High School, New Brunswick High School, Stuart Country Day School and the Pennington School.
• Beginning in 2001, Dr. Powell founded the Princeton Leadership Group, LLC, which provides consulting and advisory services to corporations and non-profits in the U.S and abroad. Services include executive coaching; consulting on corporate transitions such as mergers, executive changes and downsizing strategies; and the development of climate assessment tools. She and her colleagues have organized and run corporate retreats and training for employees on culture/climate change, collaborative leadership; strategies and programs aimed at improving internal communications and morale.
• For 10 years, Dr. Powell served as Contributing Faculty, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University.
• She has provided clinical supervision for candidate’s licensure as a N.J. psychologist.
• Powell was co-founder of the Princeton-area chapter of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians & Gays).
• From 2010 – 2025, Dr. Powell was the founding principal of Princeton Psychological Partners, LLC, providing psychological counseling services to individuals, couples and families.