With over a decade working in talent management in higher education Chelsey leads recruitment, career planning, professional development and training, and organizational development. She coaches leaders and staff members on best practices in change management, building inclusive and positive organization cultures, sponsoring the next generation of talent, and campus strategy. Her work is shaped by talent-centric trust building, advancing conversations around equity and power, and adapting business principles of productivity and employee engagement to the world of higher education. Prior to the University of Oregon, Chelsey led the TalentED practice at Bentz Whaley Flessner (BWF), a leading development consulting firm serving colleges, universities, and medical centers. While at BWF, Chelsey worked with clients in the areas of talent management and strategic planning and developed intensive sessions focused on building the capacity, skills, and knowledge of deans, academic officers, boards and advisory committees, as well as frontline fundraisers. Chelsey is a leader in research and discourse on the topic of talent management in development and has been featured in several publications, including CASE Currents and the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy. She is also a featured speaker at national conferences and maintains an industry-leading blog: targetingfundraisingtalent.wordpress.com.
Zaryab is a faculty and academic leadership coach with nearly twenty years of experience in higher education — as a professor, administrator, and consultant. She focuses on specific priorities and circumstances of individual clients to develop a specialized approach to goal achievement, productivity and success, development and growth, and strategies for navigating the intricacies of the academic profession and institutional processes. Her approach to coaching is based on the understanding that faculty face a broad range of challenges at various stages in their careers, at different types of institutions, and in specific disciplinary settings. Working closely with clients to comprehend the nuances of their professional environment, she adds her own insights to formulate a coaching plan that best meets the client’s needs. Generally, she encourages pragmatic problem-solving through empowerment and self-reflection. She has particular strengths in providing guidance in issues related to interacting with diverse stakeholders in a given institutional context, identifying appropriate career development opportunities, exploring pathways to professional excellence, and operating within organizational realities to attain optimal outcomes. With extensive experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) endeavors and mentoring scholars from underserved groups, her perspectives are informed by a keen awareness of the issues and impacts of […]
Karen is a practicing anesthesiologist and an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with over two decades of experience as a university faculty physician. Her extensive knowledge of academic medicine informs her work as a coach. Karen’s areas of coaching expertise are in career planning, promotion portfolio development, medical leadership, and navigating the fine balance between a successful career and a nurturing home and family life. Karen’s philosophy as a coach centers on the partnership between coach and coachee; she works to create a safe space for her clients to explore and find alignment between core strengths and values and their goals. She believes that the greatest wisdom comes from within, and her coaching focuses on deep listening and using powerful questions to re-frame limiting beliefs and behaviors. She works with clients to shift mindsets towards growth, curiosity, and creativity. Karen has successfully coached mid-career medical faculty moving into leadership roles in areas such as navigating difficult conversations, using 360 evaluations, leading teams, negotiating, and developing their own personal leadership style. She has created an effective program coaching academic faculty on successfully navigating university promotion pathways. Karen trained as a physician anesthesiologist in the UK (MB BS) and Canada and moved […]
Dr. Loue holds secondary appointments in Psychiatry and Global Health at the School of Medicine and in Social Work at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at CWRU. She served as the medical school’s inaugural Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity from 2012-2020. Dr. Loue has been trained in law (JD), epidemiology (PhD), medical anthropology (PhD), social work (MSSA), secondary education (MA), public health (MPH) and theology (MA) and is ordained as an interfaith minister through the New Seminary in New York and as a Modern Rabbi, through Rabbinical Seminary International, also in New York. Her empirical research has focused on HIV risk and prevention, severe mental illness, family violence, and research ethics. Dr. Loue has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and authored or edited more than 30 books. Her current research interests include vulnerability in research, mental health outcomes, and cultural humility as a framework to address structural inequities and unconscious bias. Dr. Loue has been serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health since its inception 23 years ago and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sandplay Therapy. She has engaged with diverse audiences both nationally and […]
Angela manages the team responsible for ensuring donors understand the impact their gifts have on Kansas State University. Her team strives to provide a gratifying gift experience for donors at all levels with the goal of continued cultivation. Prior to finding her home in donor relations, Angela gained more than five years of development and management experience in roles ranging from gift entry and prospect research to grant writing and gift officer work. This broad background enables her to more fully understand multiple components of a development shop and use that knowledge to create unique donor interactions and events. Angela serves as President-Elect of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals.
Eliza leads the university’s fourteen-person central donor relations team and works with senior development staff and colleagues across campus to shape the vision for comprehensive donor relations at Stanford. Prior to Stanford, she held donor relations, communications, and development positions at YMCA of the USA, Loyola University Health System, and the Elks National Foundation. Eliza is a past President of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals (ADRP). While serving ADRP, she advocated for and promoted the donor relations profession, representing the association’s nearly 1,800 international members. Eliza shares her passion for gratitude by speaking, writing, and presenting on effective practices in donor relations and stewardship.
Dr. Cuenca-Carlino is a professor who serves as the Special Education Department (SED) Chairperson at Illinois State University. The Department serves over 850 students and offers three undergraduate teacher preparation programs in special education, leading to licensure and various graduate programs. In this role, she is responsible for managing the fiscal affairs of the Department, leading and coordinating curriculum development for enhancing offerings and creating new programs, leading the evaluation of faculty members for retention, tenure, and promotion, promoting excellence in instruction, scholarly and creative productivity, and service, supervising and evaluating staff (including advisors, clinical coordinators, office managers, business administrator, etc.), overseeing student success initiatives, and developing and maintaining partnerships with various stakeholders, including school districts and donors. Prior to this position, she served for a little over three years as the Assistant Vice President for Faculty Development, Diversity, and Learning in the Office of the Provost at ISU. In this role, she led, expanded, and enhanced on-campus professional development programming for faculty and staff within Academic Affairs, bringing an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens in which she developed support systems for faculty and built inclusive and collaborative faculty communities. Dr. Cuenca-Carlino also coordinated data collection efforts to gather input about […]
Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph. Dr. Lyons’s main area of research concerns inter-generational differences and their impacts on workplace dynamics and managing people. He is co-author of the book Generational Career Shifts: How Matures, Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials View Work and co-editor of Managing the New Workforce: International Perspectives on the Millennial Generation. His research on generations has been featured in a number of media outlets, including Time Magazine, the Globe & Mail, the National Post, the Daily Mirror (UK), Macleans magazine, as well as on CBC’s The National, CTV News Channel, the Business News Network and CBC Radio’s The Current. Dr. Lyons works frequently with private and public sector organizations to identify and address inter-generational issues.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) champion, communications and marketing expert, brand strategist, leadership coach, and engagement professional are just a few words used to describe Keisha Dabrowski. Throughout her nearly 20-year career, she has leveraged communication and DEI to help organizations, leaders, and individuals bridge understanding, inspire trust, and build loyalty. Keisha places an emphasis on sustainable community engagement and has served on several boards to advance social responsibility through fundraising and the utilization of communication and marketing as a catalyst for change. She has co-authored two chapters on visionary and inclusive leadership in a book published by Business Expert Press titled “Leaderocity: Leading at the Speed of Now.” Keisha holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) with a concentration in Marketing, and a Master of Communication and Media from Rutgers University with a specialization in Strategic Organizational Communications and Corporate Purpose & Social Impact (CSR). Keisha currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor of Administration and Planning at Rutgers University, and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Marketing Association–New Jersey Chapter as their inaugural Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She is also the co-owner of the […]
Julian R. Williams was appointed as the University of South Carolina’s first Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in June 2020. In this role he serves as the university’s Chief Diversity Officer and leads the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI). Reporting directly to the President, the VP/DEI is responsible for providing vision and leadership for diversity and inclusion efforts across the university. This role capitalizes on the varied ways DEI are and can be embedded in the university’s curriculum, infrastructure, policies, and programs. Prior to coming to UofSC, Julian served as Vice President for Compliance, Diversity and Ethics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In this role he provided leadership to Mason’s Compliance, Diversity and Ethics division, and lead the University’s efforts to ensure a diverse student body and workforce. Previously, he served as the Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX Officer at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Julian has also served as the Director of the Office of Equity and Diversity at Monmouth University in New Jersey. Julian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University College […]
