Lucy Payne is a Associate Professor at University of St Thomas. She possess expertise in higher education, curriculum design, educational leadership, curriculum development, teaching and 15 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Lucy played critical roles as Associate Dean for the College of Education, Leadership & Counseling (CELC) to lead us through highly successful NCATE and APA accreditation visits and also advocating for staff development and operational efficiency. She then took her organizational expertise and knowledge of accreditation requirements to lead successful accreditation efforts at the university level. I was lucky to her her as an understanding and proactive mentor and supervisor." and "Lucy is a very strategic thinking and articulates business requirements in a way that make it very easy to translate into functional and technical solutions. She has a strong vision for the projects she is responsible for and describes them in a very clear and executable manner. She collaborates will with techies because she understands how they think."