Having spent over 25 years as an educator, coach, and consultant, I have married my strategic and business acumen with my love of personal development to provide a suite of individualized professional and personal coaching services through The Important Work, LLC.

• Advising on strategy to expand Home Education Center technologies to rural and urban stakeholders without access to reliable broadband.• Overseeing Texas expansion.• Managing T.L.L. Temple Foundation grant to fund a pilot implementation of Home Education Centers across two East Texas school districts.• Overseeing evaluation of the pilot in collaboration with a University of Texas at Austin program evaluation team.

• Led all aspects of creation and launch of a new nonprofit organization, in order to scale group coaching programming to historically disadvantaged and first-generation students across K-12 and higher education settings.• Raised $250,000 in first year of operations.

▪ Facilitated learning in the areas of Grant and Project Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Management in International Settings.▪ Served as faculty and SME for the Office of Extended Education. Classes include: Management and Leadership of Non-Profit Organizations, Human and Volunteer Resource Management, Program Implementation, International NGOs, and Public and Nonprofit Performance Management.

Visiting Assistant Professor, 2014 – 2015▪ Designed and delivered innovative curriculum for students in the Master of Public Service and Administration program, led client-based, socially impactful capstone projects, International NGOs, and Project Management.Primary Investigator, 2014-2016▪ “HB 5: The New Shape of Texas High School Education” Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium.▪ Lead Investigator, “Employer Strategies for Supporting Out of School Time Programming in Texas: Incentives for Action, Opportunities for Collaboration.” Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium.Capstone Leader and Lecturer, 2013 – 2015▪ Delivered informative and compelling content on non-profit programs: the McKenna Foundation and the SmartBabies Initiative. ▪ Winner of the McGrew Research Award, Central Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) for research examining school readiness investments for 2014-2015.▪ Directed a cost-benefit analysis project supporting the Waco Foundation’s SmartBabies Initiative, documenting and demonstrating effective interventions in teen pregnancy rates and establishing costs.

Proud to be bringing life design and coaching to academic, entrepreneurial, and policymaking communities. I am passionate about supporting students of all ages in their quest for conscious living, personal and professional development.▪ Managed all aspects of business development, proposal writing, strategic planning, program design, marketing and event execution.▪ Co-led group coaching programs across institutions of higher education (including Stanford, NYU, Yale, MIT, Arizona State University, Fordham, and Swarthmore) .▪ Program measurement and evaluation.

▪ Winner (Faculty Lead), President’s Award for Global Learning, Cambodia Waste Management Team▪ Research Awardee and Author, IBM Business of Government, Preparing the Next Generation of Federal Leaders: Agency-Based Leadership Development Programs▪ Created and developed foundational course for incoming graduate students to encourage ‘deep dive’ engagement in policy issue areas, build career network, build social innovation and advanced entrepreneurial policy analysis skills. ▪ Built a national dialogue and spurred research on bridging social science to policy making for increased social impact. Redesigned the traditional Business Model Canvas for Policy and Nonprofit Sector▪ Co-founded Deans Summit and built collaborative relationships with 35 U.S. policy school deans and the Volcker Alliance, to build innovative curricular advancements to spur public policy education reform across the United States.Co-Principal Investigator, 2013 – 2016▪ Awarded $400,000 from the National Science Foundation for an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER); “Curriculum Blueprint to Enhance Social Scientists’ Capacities to Create and Sustain Social Change;” “Engaging SBE: Workshop for Engaging Social, Behavioral, and Economic Scientists through Social and Policy Entrepreneurship.”Adjunct Faculty, Senior Program Coordinator, 2013 – 2015▪ Designed and administered coursework for: Advanced Empirical Methods: Qualitative Research Methods for Development, Becoming a Catalyst: Building Collaborative Leadership Skills for Future Boundary Spanners, and Issues in Public Affairs: Leadership through Public Service.▪ Consulted the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management to design, reorganize, and place proposals for their Fall 2013 Research Conference.▪ Created content, designed, and implemented the “Reinventing Diplomacy” workshop to promote the study and research of international diplomacy. Co-edited book, Reinventing Diplomacy

Taught public management and public policy classes, capstone advisor, strategic management and program accreditation/reform consultant

Program Coordinator (Bachelor of Commerce), School of Business & Management, 2010-2011▪ Advised over 350 bachelor’s students as Program Coordinator and managed all aspects of accreditation documentation. Assistant Professor, 2009-2011▪ Designed and taught:o Literature Review (Doctoral), (10/10-05/11)o Qualitative Research Methods (Doctoral), (10/10-05/11)o Performance Management, (07/10-08/10)o Human Resource Management, (07/10-08/10)o Managing People in Organizations, (06/09-07/11)o Human Resource Development, (06/09-08/10)o Organizational Analysis, (01/09-05/09)o Human Resource Management, (01/09-05/09)

Previous Clients Include:National Committee for Management of Decentralization and Deconcentration Reforms, Ministry of Interior, Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) Consulting Technical Advisor, SBK Consulting, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 2008-June 2008--Designed and analyzed data for three baseline and progress monitoring surveys.GTZ-National Audit Authority Cooperation ProjectConsultant, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 2007-December 2007--Designed and executed a baseline study of stakeholders’ perceptions on the National Audit Authority to establish to what degree stakeholders identify with the NAA vision and understand the NAA’s specific functions.National Committee for Management of Decentralization and Deconcentration Reforms, Ministry of Interior, Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) Consultant, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 2007-July 2007--Designed and executed research study which assessed the performance of RGC’s Provincial Accountability Working Groups for procedural performance and stakeholder perceptions of the PAWG. Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida-Cambodia, Consultant, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2007-March 2007--Developed four-year (2006-2010) Research-Based Outcome Monitoring (RBOM) framework for the Danida Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods (NRML) Programme in Cambodia.Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Democratic Governance/Public Sector Reform Research Unit Technical Research Advisor, Phnom Penh, Cambodia,October 2005-December 2006--Advised team of seven Cambodian researchers in all aspects of research process related to accountability studyGlobal Microentrepreneurship Awards Country Coordinator, Phnom Penh, Cambodia,August 2004-February 2005--Designed and oversaw all aspects of the inaugural award ceremony in Cambodia, November 12, 2004.

Faculty, 10/06-10/08Founding & Advisory Board Member, 03/05-10/08--Responsibility for course design, administration, grading, and mentoring of Cambodian facultyResearch Methods for Development Studies, 10/06-03/07--Provided qualitative research unit for introductory research methods course which included material on research design, qualitative data collection and analysis, and validity and reliability. Public & Non-Profit Management, 09/07-11/07--Designed and presented a master’s survey course which introduced students to basic public and non-profit management principles, as well as the leadership skills that are fundamental to managing people and teams in such environments. Course topics included management as field and practice; organizational structure and environment; organizational culture and leadership; power, politics, and decisionmaking; and organizational development and learning.

Adjunct Lecturer (Full responsibility for all aspects of course instruction, grading, and administration.)--Developing Management Skills, 01/03-05/03 --Introduction to Public Policy, 09/02-12/02Teaching Colleague (Share teaching responsibility, primary responsibility for grading and course administration.)--Managing Public Service Organizations, 09/99-present Teaching Assistant (Partial grading and administrative responsibility, syllabus preparation, website development and oversight.)--International Organizations and Management: The UN System, 09/00-12/00, 09/02-12/02--Globalization and the Changing Role of the State, 02/02-05/02--Policy Formation and Analysis, 01/02-05/02--Introduction to Public Policy (College of Arts and Sciences, Political Science Department), 09/00-12/00