I am an Education and Non-profit Leader offering 10+ years of experience igniting and designing real-time and long-lasting solutions to complex challenges within diversified non-profit and educational organizations. I leverage the ability to build and mentor high-performance teams, drive cross-functional projects, and prioritize tasks within diversified ecosystems. Throughout my tenure, I have served as a thought leader, creating strategies to support grants and drive operations, corporate, education, community philanthropic outreach, and donor cultivation and management.As an accomplished, forward-thinking leader with successes in identifying opportunities and converting challenges into innovative solutions and programs that advance the future of the organization. I foster an environment that embraces, grows, and strengthens a culture of inclusiveness, bring a reputation for modeling an atmosphere of innovation and continuous improvement, and a record of solid performance in making difficult staff, budgetary, and programmatic decisions in an environment with competing demands and limited resources. • Championed institutional change by serving as a primary investigator and Senior Director for $2.3M in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support high-impact learning practices, cross-disciplinary pathways on “Grand Challenge” themes, and community-based partnerships. • Fostered educational excellence by leading 300+ internal and external conference presentations, faculty development events, student grants, and various projects, including award-winning website, “Digital Holland, Michigan,” a college-wide Summer Research Program, website content, and social media engagement.• Spearheaded the development of a new approach to humanities education, called “Digital Liberal Arts," implemented at many other colleges by launching Hope College’s “Mellon Scholars Program,” a three-year curriculum of faculty-student collaborative research and career preparation in the humanities and technology.• Served as a keynote speaker, panelist, conference presenter/organizer, and consultant for higher education, libraries, and museums. Areas of Expertise:Educational Leadership | Research, Development, Evaluation | Fundraising & Grant Writing | Fostering Positive Relationships | Strategic Plan Development & Implementation | Non-Profit Development | Community Based Partnership | Crisis CommunicationAll true, in LinkedIn-language, but AI-generated inauthenticity for the sake of being noticed by HR bots is what’s wrong with the labor market now.