Vanessa R. Wood, Psy.D., M.A. Gifted Ed., Co-Founder, President-CEO, Research PI, The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly-Profoundly Gifted is passionate about education, human development, developmental potential, and well-being. She believes each individual has a unique developmental path that should be honored among the collaborative community.
Dr. Vanessa Reineke Wood is the co-principal investigator and corresponding author of the 2024 study, Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods Study of Development and Developmental Potential – An international IRB study and research collaboration with the University of Antwerp. She is also the corresponding author of the 2020 publication, How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and Profoundly Gifted Students? A Literature Review of The Psychological Development of Highly-Profoundly Gifted Individuals and Overexcitabilities. Dr. Reineke Wood is the co-editor of the upcoming book Highly-Profoundly Gifted: A Holistic and Critical Approach.
Dr. Reineke Wood created programs to fit the educational and developmental needs of highly-profoundly gifted children and adolescents including Advanced Astronaut Training with the Challenger Learning Center and Botany Field Research at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Her various community roles have included gifted program development and administration, parent-teacher liaison, and Home Schooling Gifted Students (HSGS) board member. Dr. Reineke Wood served as program director for PG Retreat, local area marketing and alliance lead for National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), and Arizona Association for Gifted and Talented (AAGT) committee member.
Dr. Reineke Wood trains parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, and psychologists on the social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic-moral behaviors, development, and developmental potential of highly-profoundly gifted children, adolescents, and young adults. She is the host of the IGC podcast, “Room With a View.”
For speaking engagements, training and professional development, parent education, program development, please email: VanessaWood@giftedconsortium.org
