Founding principal and owner of mediation firm with practice areas in Family Law Matters, Business Disputes, HOA-Homeowner Conflicts, and Employment Issues, particularly those in higher education. Used entrepreneurial spirit and innovation to develop and successfully implement the Marketing, Public Relations, and Business Plan for this unique, non-lawyer Mediation Practice. Florida Supreme Court Certified Family, Circuit-Civil, and County-Civil Mediator serving as Contract Mediator for Family Law cases in both Florida's First and Fourteenth Judicial Circuits.Conduct Private mediation for civil, divorce, and family issues, as well as marriage mediation for couples hoping to avoid divorce. Provide psycho-educational relationship improvement courses to couples and groups. Conduct Continuing Mediator Education classes and author the relationship blog "Work it Out". Approved by Florida Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Center as Assistant Trainer for Family Mediation and as Subject-Matter Expert for Circuit-Civil Mediation Training. Amity Mediation Workshop, LLC, is a multifaceted, professional alternative dispute resolution practice that empowers people to resolve their differences in an amicable atmosphere and to build agreements that serve their unique situation and goals. Our approach supports and guides individuals as they work to settle their differences and define for themselves the future of their relationships at home, at work, or in their neighborhoods.Florida Supreme Court Certified Family, County, and Circuit-Civil Mediator #32724CFRFlorida

Chief executive officer responsible for maintaining the quality of a Winthrop University education for undergraduate and graduate students and for ensuring that the University deliver on its promises for student success. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, set the institutional vision, directs the establishment of the university mission, strategic goals and objectives, and guides the allocation and acquisition of resources in support of the mission and goals. C-Suite direct reports include: the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice President for Student Life, the Vice President for Advancement, the Vice President for Development, the Vice President for Finance and Administration, and the Director of Athletics. As head of a public, master’s comprehensive university, responsibilities include connecting University program offerings with the learning needs of the diverse population of residents in the Carolinas and beyond, while also contributing to the greater good by supporting the economic development of the region and uplifting the lives of regional residents through culturally enriching experiences, entertainment, and service-orientated outreach.

Provided strategic leadership for the design, development and delivery of executive leadership programs for college and university presidents, chief academic officers, and other senior level campus leaders. Responsibilities included identifying emerging trends and issues that affect institutional governance, management and effectiveness; curricular design, developing external fund-raising strategies; responding to media inquiries; and providing thought leadership while serving as an expert resource to ACE and its members. (Full time ACE employee, while on sabbatical from Butler)

Chief academic officer with responsibility and authority for delivering high quality liberal arts and professional programs to traditional undergraduates and graduate students across six colleges. Member of the Butler Leadership Team and the Senior Administrative group, Chair of the Provost Advisory Council, and staff support for the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. Responsibilities include ensuring the quality of academic programs; resource development for the Academic Division; collaborating in the development of a $150,000,000 University budget and strategic planning and resource allocation for a $43,000,000 Academic Division Budget; serving as institutional representative to the New American Colleges and Universities consortium; oversight and adjudication of faculty personnel matters; and, mentoring and directing academic deans for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Business, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Jordan College of Fine Arts, and the new College of Communication, as well as the Dean of the Libraries, Director of the Center for Global Education, Director of Academic Budgets and Special Projects, the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Interdisciplinary Programs and the Associate Provost for Student Academic Affairs.

Initially hired as Director of the Organizational Studies Program, Promoted to Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs, then to Interim Dean before leaving to become VPAA at Baker.