Sam teaches courses focused on leadership, organizational behavior, communication, and team dynamics across both business and media contexts. Her teaching emphasizes practical application, ethical leadership, psychological safety, and the interpersonal dynamics that shape collaboration and organizational culture.
Drawing from both academic research and professional industry experience, Sam creates highly interactive classroom environments that encourage critical reflection, discussion, and experiential learning. Her courses often explore how leadership, communication, power, and culture intersect in modern organizations and creative industries.
Instructor of Record | Spring 2025
Student Rating Average: 6.9/7
Undergraduate organizational behavior course focused on leadership, teamwork, diversity, communication, and inclusive workplace dynamics. The course emphasized self-awareness, collaboration, ethical leadership, and applied team-based learning.
Instructor of Record | Fall 2024
Student Rating Average: 6.4/7
Undergraduate organizational behavior course focused on leadership, teamwork, diversity, communication, and inclusive workplace dynamics. The course emphasized self-awareness, collaboration, ethical leadership, and applied team-based learning.
Course Creator and Instructor of Record | Spring 2026
Student Rating Average: 5/5
An advanced leadership course examining team dynamics, organizational culture, conflict, psychological safety, leadership ethics, and communication within creative industries.
Instructor of Record | Spring 2023
Student Rating Average: 4.7/5 and 4.2/5
Course focused on strategic messaging, audience engagement, digital communication, and collaborative content development.
Instructor of Record | Spring 2023
Student Rating Average: 3.8/5
Covers branding and brand equity concepts relevant to management of media advertising. Concepts are applied to analyses of case studies of brand creation, development, and extinction in media advertising.
Instructor of Record | Fall 2022
Student Rating Average: 4.9/5
Course focused on strategic messaging, audience engagement, digital communication, and collaborative content development.
"Professor Stalion is very understanding and someone to whom I feel like I could chat with about anything and she would be
there for me. It is evident that professor Stalion cares for all her students and their success in the future. I also found her real–
world, work examples to be super useful for the success of better understanding concepts."
"I love Sam Stalion so much. She is so encouraging and finds examples of campaigns that are actually helpful and interesting.
Class discussion can be a bit daunting, but it is so worth it to get her feedback. She is a very genuine and caring instructor."
"The part I liked most about the course was that the material we learned applies to the real–world problems and can carry on throughout my career and life. I liked that this instructor
wanted to see us learn and made the material very engaging."
"I LOVED THIS CLASS! I learned a lot of practical information about the advertising industry that I have already applied to my other
coursework. Sam also cares a lot about our future goals and is often checking in on her students asking how interviews went,
scholarships, etc. and is always extending herself if anybody needs help or advice. I would suggest this class to anybody and have
thoroughly enjoyed coming to class."
"For this course, I loved the in–class discussions. My instructor really tried to encourage these discussions by either contributing personal stories that related to the material, or gave
very clear in–depth questions to share within smaller groups. I also throughout the in–class activities were engaging and guest speakers because it forced you to contribute since there
wasn't any "right" or "wrong" answer. Unlike other courses, this course really connected to me as a student, peer, and future employer. I could tell the material was well–researched and
our feedback was clearly taken into consideration. I don't usually like speaking in class, but I really enjoyed speaking in this course and even got close with the people I sat next to."
"Samantha was a great professor and made discussions interesting and engaging. She brought personal experience and
insight into our topics and presented them in an entertaining way. I really enjoyed the topics we learned and how open the
discussion environment was."
"Professor Stalion is extremely available and kind. She is prompt on grading and I really enjoyed her as a professor."
"I liked how this course challenged me to understand more about myself as a professional and a leader. I think more classes should work internally with students rather than trying to
drill concepts for memorization."
"Sam was so inspiring and taught us a lot about ourselves and being a good leader. She cared about our perspective and gave us a lot of
time to discuss and learn from each other."