I create a positive, energizing space for you to discover what you want and craft a plan to achieve your career and leadership goals. Paula is an expert on how individuals manage their careers in higher education, with an emphasis on career planning, career transitions, and academic job searching. Previously she served as Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Southern California and the Program Director for Faculty Development at the Duke University School of Medicine. Paula is currently on the Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology faculty, where she teaches courses in organizational leadership and chairs dissertations. Paula has a doctorate in organization change from Pepperdine, a master’s in public health from UCLA, and a bachelor’s in biology with minors in psychology and women’s studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Academic job seekers come to Paula because of her insider perspective on the hiring process. She has seen thousands of applications over the years and knows what it takes for an application packet to stand out from the crowd. Her hands-on approach guides job seekers through clarifying career goals, developing high-quality documents, preparing for job interviews, and crafting consistent messages across the application and web/social […]
Peter is a leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in higher education and broad exposure to academic leadership and faculty governance. He specializes in strategies for a mindful approach to work, life, and a full engagement with work/life balance through emotional intelligence. His long practice in mindfulness is supplemented by modern research in leadership and mindfulness, as well as the understandings and practices of Stoic philosophy. A humanist and entrepreneur at heart, Peter has always looked for the next challenge. After more than two decades in academia—with publications, local and national awards, and academic leadership experience in higher education and in a global education organization—Peter burnt out. After taking a leave to reflect, Peter retrained to build a consulting and coaching firm that integrates his passion for higher education, people development, mindfulness, and evidence-based emotional intelligence development. His conviction that good, careful inner work can make lives better and more fulfilling has been at the core of his efforts to point people and organizations in the right direction. Building on his skills as a dialogue facilitator (he is a UN Habitat certified facilitator) and his training in conflict resolution, Peter specializes in helping individuals, teams, and organizations notice, […]
Jenna brings over a decade of experience to her role as Learning & Development Manager for Faculty & Student Success, having worked in higher ed as student, faculty, and staff. She leverages her knowledge and experience of academic culture in combination with her background in pedagogy, instructional design, and faculty development to co-create solutions to higher education challenges. Her love for the higher education landscape comes from her experiences as a first-generation college student. Jenna joined Academic Impressions in June 2021. She lives in Denton, Texas, north of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, home of the University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University. She likes to make art, read books, experiment with cooking, and adventure with her husband and young son.
Warren’s 40+ year career as a university researcher, educator and administrator has included faculty positions at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of North Texas. Additionally, he has been a visiting researcher at universities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Mexico, Panama and Taiwan, and has given hundreds of hundreds of invited and plenary lectures in more than a dozen countries. Warren has been Department Chair, Dean and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, holding this last position at UNT until his return to faculty in 2015. As a result, he has deep experience in the assembly and management of large, complex research and administrative teams, including those pursuing and successfully acquiring both public and private research funding. His biological research projects have been funded by multiple agencies during his career, including a highly unusual ~40 years of continuous National Science Foundation funding. He currently is supported both by the National Science Foundation (public) and the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (private). He received his B.Sc. degree from the Univ. of Calgary, Canada, and his PhD from the Univ. of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
Suffolk Law’s legal writing program has been ranked in the Top 10 in the nation since 2013 by US News and World Report. Kathy has served as Chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research; President of the Association of Legal Writing Directors; a board member of the Legal Writing Institute; and an editor of the Monograph, Second Draft, and the Legal Writing Institute Journal. She also serves on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee for Professionalism in Practice. Kathy has co-authored two books, Mindful Lawyering: The Key to Creative Problem Solving and the book Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill. In addition, she has published numerous law review articles. She also received the Mary S. Lawrence Award from the Legal Writing Institute for pioneering scholarship and innovative curriculum or program design. Kathy has given numerous presentations on her scholarship, teaching, and leadership.
Lauren refers to frontline fundraising as a calling. She brings her passion for education around the “how-to” of this work through her personal experiences transitioning from annual giving to frontline fundraising, and through her research for a capstone project about discovery work best practices. In her current role at the University of Colorado Anschutz (CU Anschutz) Medical Campus, she leads and coaches a team of gift officers who work on major gifts and whose unique roles include focusing on the important work of retaining and growing the giving at the bottom of the pyramid. She also spends a vital part of her time with her boots on the ground, managing a portfolio of major gift benefactors. Prior to CU Anschutz, Lauren managed Cleveland Clinic’s direct mail program and worked in advancement and communications at The Ohio State University.
Kelly completed her PhD at Emory University, earning prior degrees at Transylvania University and The Ohio State University. First joining Agnes Scott College as a faculty member, she is the founding dean of the graduate and post-baccalaureate programs at Agnes Scott College. She has led their development from the initial ideas in 2016 to the current success and continued growth of the graduate programs today. Kelly plays an instrumental role in the College’s strategic approach to ROI analysis, bringing insight from her experience with the American Council on Education’s Strategic Finance program and the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education program in aligning strategic priorities with financial resources.
Prior to serving as Interim Dean, Susan served as Associate Dean for the College with a focus on Academic Affairs. She is an Associate Professor of Audiology and serves on the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Her research focuses on background noise and acceptable noise levels. Her other professional interests include inter-institution education, interprofessional education, and team-based learning.
John was appointed to his current position in July 2019 with oversight of UD’s largest college of more than 7,000 undergraduate students, 1,100 graduate students, as well as over 50 academic departments, research institutes, interdisciplinary centers, and programs. He is a distinguished scholar and mathematician, with research on mathematical modeling of physical systems, especially micro and nanoscale engineered systems. John is also dedicated to student success and has conducted extensive research on integrating mathematical modeling, numerical simulation and experiment into undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses. He is the author of the highly regarded books Self Assembly: The Science of Things That Put Themselves Together, published in 2007, and Modeling MEMS and NEMS, published in 2002, as well as several book chapters and numerous research articles in scholarly journals. Most recently, John served as associate dean in the college from January 2016 after holding an interim appointment for one year, where he was responsible for a portfolio of six departments in the natural sciences, including biological sciences; chemistry and biochemistry; linguistics and cognitive science; mathematical sciences; physics and astronomy; and psychological and brain sciences. He also oversaw the college’s secondary education enterprise, the Delaware Teacher’s Institute at New Castle County, and […]
Stefan is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine by training and obtained a PhD in Virology and Immunology. He served on a number of national and university committees in biomedical sciences and academic leadership, in the Ohio State University senate, and as department chair and vice-chair of the Department of Veterinary Biosciences. His NIH-funded and industry-sponsored research laboratory focusses on leukemia development after infection with the human T cell leukemia virus type I and the pathogenesis of human respiratory virus infections in animal models. Stefan has attended a variety of leadership training programs and uses this knowledge for publishing on academic leadership and continuing education for faculty and chairs in academic administrative roles.
