Work with Dean to create at-risk student support processes which includes training adjuncts on best practices for engaging at-risk students, coordinating the reporting of at-risk students across the programs, and engaging with Student Services to provide comprehensive support for at-risk students.Lead team that created Faculty Development Initiative for ACU Online faculty and adjuncts. Initiative includes monthly online trainings, website, and curating of content.Coordinate with Instructional Design team to design online courses fitting best practices for online, adult learning.Began alumni speaker series to network and share experiences with ACU Online students. Lead Academic Council to approve new courses, programs, and certificates.Lead undergraduate Program Director group to create processes for new undergraduate programs.Train undergraduate Program Directors on assessment guidelines for college including use of software and measurement tools.Monitor academic exceptions and appeals.Student feedback regularly ranks at 4.6 or above on a 5-point scale in all areas: learning, responsiveness, feedback, engagement.

Charged with developing and fulfilling vision of two new online undergraduate programs - Applied Communication and Organizational Leadership programs.Serve as course developer for communication and leadership courses. Create assignments, rubrics, and teaching materials.Hire Subject Matter Experts to develop courses in programs.Hire Adjuncts to teach in programs.Serve on faculty committees.

• Research areas of Organizational Change which includes Organizational Development and Change Management and Conflict Management. Experienced in quantitative and qualitative research. I have utilized needs assessments, gap analysis, employee performance appraisals, curriculum development, and training.• Teach Classes in Communication: public speaking, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, persuasion, advanced public speaking, conflict communication.• Mentor students in research areas.• Committee work.• Develop and teach online communication courses.

- Design and Teach Courses: Fundamentals of Communication, Advanced Public Speaking, Conflict Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Business and Professional Communication, Speech Activities for Elementary Teachers, and Debate Theory and Practice.- Facilitate online classes through ACU’s Organizational Development degree program: Persuasion and Social Movements, Training and Course Design, Intercultural Communication.- Student advising, committee work, community service and other faculty duties.- Manage ACU Speaking Center which provides consultation on presentations for students on campus. Position includes managing 10 Graduate Assistants, training of Graduate Assistants, and organization of duties within the Speaking Center.

- Co-Chairs StrengthsQuest Advisory Team on ACU's campus. Team includes leaders from across -ACU: advising, residence life, athletics, faculty, staff, human resources, career services, diversity outreach, etc.- Presents to various classes on campus concerning Strengths and the application to those classes. Current presentations include: Strengths and the Field of Social Work, Working in Teams with Strengths, Strengths and Speech Pathology, Your Conflict Personality and Strengths Application, Using Your Strengths to Communicate in Relationship.-Wrote StrengthQuest curriculum for utilization in campus-wide freshman Cornerstone class.- Designed Canvas site for usage of StrenthsQuest Cornerstone Curriculum- Designed workbook for various StrengthsQuest lesson and activities that address: Leading with Strengths, Strengths Domains, Understanding Your 34 Strengths, Strengths in Collaboration, Strengths Balconies and Basements, Strengths and Calling.- Working with Adams Center at ACU (Faculty organization) to implement StrengthsFinder for Faculty in teaching and learning.-Providing individualized Coaching for Faculty in Strengths.-Presentations given at ACU's New Student Orientation for new students and parents "Leveraging Your Strengths in College."

- Coach nationally ranked debate and speech team at ACU.- Manage Million Dollar Endowment.-Coordinate monthly travel for team.- Direct team meetings and research for team.- Coached top twenty nationally- ranked debate team 2007-2014.- Coached National Champion Parliamentary Debate Team 2010.- Coached two Novice National top ten teams (second and ten place teams – 2009).- Coached top Novice National Extemporaneous and Impromptu Speaker (second and fifth place – 2009).- Recruit new members yearly.- Coordinate up to three high school speech tournaments a year. Tasks include recruiting/coordinating judges, organizing rooms, tallying ballots, working with coaches.

• Interviewed employees and managers to identify problematic themes across the organization.• Developed qualitative analysis to determine common narratives across the organization.• Provided recommendations for employee assessment program.• Utilized gap analysis to clarify differences between goals or procedures with actual outputs.• Use of surveys and quantitative investigation to gather information on employee perceptions.• Development of research-backed solutions for an organization.• Coaching of employees in leadership, management, and dispute resolution practices.• Superior trainer for groups and departments in organizational communication, employee development, and conflict management.• Developed screencasts to train students in conflict management skills.• Coached managers in communication skills.• Developer of conflict management systems for organizations.• Researcher in the areas of organizational communication and systems theory to better understand how organizational policies, procedures, and structures influence communication patterns in the organization.

• Chair of Communication Department: Supervised Adjuncts, supplied curriculum to instructors, advised and coordinated instructors, etc.• Taught Fundamentals of Public Speaking, Interpersonal of Communication and Oral Interpretation classes. Class average size is 25 students.• Distance Education classes: Fundamentals of Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication• Served on state-wide committee to develop Distance Education Fundamentals of Public Speaking for Ivy Tech’s in Indiana.• Developed Oral Interoperation course.• Developed Strength –based Fundamentals of Public speaking and Interpersonal Communication courses to be used region-wide.• Began the use of digital video recording in the online public speaking course to increase retention.• Began use of video streaming and podcasting in online course.• Teaching evaluations nearly always exceed a 4 on a 5 points scale. Samples of evaluations available on request.• Student advising, committee work, community service and other faculty duties.• Strengths Advocate serving Ivy Tech- Gallup Organization.• Wrote Ivy Tech, Region 2 Training for staff, faculty and students: Intro to IVYStrengths I, Intro to IVY Strengths II, Snow White and the 34 Dwarfs: Strengths and Teambuilding, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: conflict in the Context of Strengths.• Served on IVYStrengths Regional Committee