Colleen Casey, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Executive responsible for leading cross functional teams and divisions to advance Toyota’s multimillion dollar commitment to improving educational access and enrich communities across 15 operational locations.

Plano, Texas

• Successfully lead mobility project development, implementation, KPIs, partnerships, and budgets.• Work collaboratively with internal business units and external partners including local governments, national and local nonprofit organizations, and other corporate partners to ensure business success.• Responsible for building strategic partnerships with nonprofit and government organizations.• Foster employee performance development by applying Toyota Driving Performance Principles and creating initiatives in alignment with Toyota's Global 2020 Vision, which aims to “Lead the way to the future of mobility, enriching lives around the world with the safest and most responsible ways of moving people.”.• Establish ambitious goals for employees to promote achievement and surpass business targets. Generate reports to assess performance.

Arlington, Tx

• Successfully served as an Associate Professor and held different responsibilities such as Interim Department Chair, Director Public Policy Program, Director Public and Urban Administration Ph.D. Program. Led faculty, adjunct, and staff development and performance reviews. Oversaw departmental budgets and faculty workloads, created external relationships with program alumni.• Executed strategies to ensure student recruitment and retention. Developed metrics for curriculum assessment. Facilitated graduate courses in Masters and PhD programs.• Proctored and supervised exams, thesis, and dissertation committees. Mentored and coached students. Implemented curriculum focused on project-based and service-learning pedagogy. Adapted methods of instruction and classroom materials to address individual student needs.• Published in top-tier journals; Obtained and handled research grants in observance of university regulations. Researched and contacted subject matter experts to consult on research. Collaborated with peers on research to develop new insights and valuable professional relationships.

Reggio Di Calabria, Calabria, Italy

Faculty, International Doctorate Program in Urban Regeneration | Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria • Successfully conducted a two-week seminar about principles of community development and chaired Ph.D. dissertation committees.

San Diego Metropolitan Area

• Member of the research team, including researchers from two U.S. partner universities and four European universities financed by a European Union grant to study urban regeneration. Communicated findings to grow research efforts, enabling improved workflows.• Designed research protocols to perform instrumentation relative to research procedures.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Professionally designed research agenda about key community affairs in the region.• Gathered thought leaders to participate in the Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Recovery: A Focus on Job Creation and Economic Stabilization conference. Oversaw entire conference duties, including conference theme development, recruitment of keynote speakers (academic and practitioners), call for papers, and paper adjudication. Conducted research presentations at Federal Reserve System internal meetings.

Phd, Public Policy, Urban And Community Development

Ms, Education

Bs, Communications