Executive Leadership & Strategic PartnershipsFive-Year Tenure on Executive Committee: Demonstrated commitment and leadership through long-term service, contributing to the overall strategic vision.Program Chair & President: Spearheaded initiatives to forge strategic partnerships with corporate sponsors, amplifying organizational impact and diversifying revenue streams.Immediate Past President: Currently leading Development, Awards, and Nominations Committees, promoting excellence and steering organizational growth.

With a unique blend of skills and experiences, Dr. Rolle facilitates companies with up-skilling and re-tooling diverse talent pools in today’s shared, gig, and knowledge based economy. She has mentored multi-discipline, multi-cultural and divergent thinking leaders and entrepreneurs. with a knack for planning, new strategies, innovative processes, navigating changes, she consistently delivers measurable ROI.* Businesses and organizations:- Workforce transitioning, training, retooling, upskilling, diverse talents. - Identifying market needs, improving efficiency for resources and capital.- Scale existing systems by re-creating and re-allocating resources. -Taught business school courses in entrepreneurial finance, growth strategies and practicum, small business consulting, and Executive MBA graduate courses of economics and managerial economics. - As a marketing and sales specialist At IBM, collaborated with a team to create a sales briefing for new application software for improving customers’ productivity. * Funded startup/entrepreneurs:- Prepare entrepreneurial leadership and molding business mindsets for over 20 years. Work with incubators, accelerators, and student start-ups.- Reviewed, ranked and graded grant proposals for advanced technology programs at the National Institute of Standards & Technology and NASA.- As part of the mentor/protege programs, helped entrepreneurs write the grant proposals at the DOD-DISA (Department of Defense, Defense Information System Agency) and IBM.* The federal or state government: - Advised various departments and commissions. Diversity training for federal agencies. * Education institutions: - As an economist in the Ed Tech space, Dr. Rolle leads with innovative online programs that increased ROI substantially and decreased cost by as much as 85%. A long track record for improving organizational effectiveness can be found at "JoAnn Rolle Consulting" Page for more details.)

Experfy is an intellectual powerhouse where industry thought leaders combine consulting and teaching to reinvent the future by offering a powerful learning platform for upskilling based on industry use-cases.

Leading 30 personnel focused on Faculty & Student Development Operations, building relationships with a network of key academics and professionals in local institutions to advance MEC objectives. Responsible for increasing student and faculty engagement by coordinating international and domestic agreements focused on new academic and experiential learning initiatives.Additionally, I collaborated with the Dean and executive faculty of Queensborough Community College to develop new opportunities for internships, faculty recruitment, and enrollment, and create a new Industry Advisory Board with expertise in business, social, and technology disciplines.As an Executive Director of Entrepreneurship & Experiential Learning lab, I was responsible for managing resources from donor funding sources e.g. Carnegie Mellon, CUNY Strategic Investment grants, and the Santander Bank Foundation to support the development of sustainable entrepreneurship and experiential learning initiatives, as well as support satellite offices with the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp.Selected as a Fellow of the Academy of Business & Retail Management, London, United Kingdom.

Inaugural Senior VP responsible for Academic & Student Affairs organizations accountable for strategic academic and student affairs leadership. Focused on defining and executing long-term strategic plans in alignment with institutional priorities, this included the achievement of enrollment and revenue targets, developing new revenue sources, and enhancing learning communities.

Directed strategic and tactical Academic Affairs plans, with particular eye towards improving performance of educational systems and increasing student capacity by investing in new learning systems, upgrading distance education, and creating new online courses and attendant training.

Led development of Computer Information, Electronics Engineering and Nuclear Engineering programs. Initiated the first strategic plan for the school; developed a strategy and launched the school’s first MBA graduate program; developed the first online undergraduate course for a corporate client; developed and launched the school’s first online business & tech courses.Increased gender and ethnic diversity of both faculty and staff; increased staff diversity by 40% within two years. Initiated and developed new and creative articulation agreements and relationships with community colleges, corporate partners and Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs).Collaborated with international academic institutions in Mexico and France and secured the first corporate grant and Department of Energy funding for nuclear programs. Honored by the Technology faculty with the inaugural Dean’s Commendation of Support award.

Led innovations in online course development. Developed the first online course, "Women as Entrepreneurs." Led innovations in faculty support services.

Developed hybrid and online deliverables on several Learning Management Systems (LMS) including Blackboard. Led faculty in grant writing, research and funded projects on Entrepreneurship. Developed industry relationships with corporate and government donors. Significantly grew student enrollment and graduation rates in Entrepreneurship.Babson College SEE Fellow.

Administrative fellow in the Internal Audit Department in the Office of the VP of Finance. Completed assigned audit investigations of several departments. Served as a Resident Scholar in Management Consulting at Harvard University's Eliot House.