With nearly 12 years of experience at a variety of institutions, Roxie has worked to support diverse students, faculty, and staff through innovative programming and educational opportunities. In 2018 they received the Omicron Delta Kappa Campus Impact award for their work serving undocumented students and students with disabilities. At Rowan University Roxie leads the SJICR team as they work to support the identity development, academic success, and college completion of all who seek to be educated at Rowan. A true practitioner of intersectionality, Roxie works to infuse the voices of multiply marginalized people into all that they do. They have been active in social justice movements around anti-racism, sexuality, gender/identity, disability, fat, class, and religion for over a decade. They are also a certified conflict mediator and intercultural communications specialist.
Jacque works with organizations and individuals to implement broad-based diversity and inclusion initiatives with outcomes that operationalize dignity and respect. Jacque has over 30 years experience in all aspects of developing inclusive organizations including, but not limited to, performance coaching, mediation, curriculum design, assessments, focus groups, conflict management, change management, facilitation, mentoring, process improvement and diversity training. She is an avid community volunteer and leader with such programs as the Healing Racism Committee, The United Way, Diversity Leadership Alliance, The Mesa Leadership Foundation, The City of Mesa Community Cinema Dialogs, NAACP Arizona Youth Council, Valley Teen Leadership, and Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. Jacque credits her passion for inclusion to her family both past and present. She is the co-founder of the Arizona Multicultural Education Conference and the 2016 recipient of the MLK Veora E. Johnson Spirit of Unity Award for diversity and inclusion.
Tracy Wilson-Holden has been with Case Western Reserve University’s (CWRU) Office of Research Administration since 2005. She is the Research Integrity Officer and is also responsible for overseeing research education and training. She directs the human subjects and responsible conduct of research training programs and oversees the work of the Conflict of Interests committee. Tracy is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Bioethics, teaching the graduate course “On Being a Professional Scientist”. She serves as a board member for the national organization the Association of Research Integrity Officers. In addition, she was the principal investigator of a federal grant from the Office of Research Integrity and has done peer review and taught workshops for the agency. She holds a BA in Communication Science and Disorders and a MA in Audiology, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to working in Research Administration, Tracy spent 11 years working as an intraoperative neurophysiologist in a private practice in Northeast Ohio and at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Morehouse became director of equal opportunity and assistant to the president in August 1986. He is a nationally recognized consultant in the development of affirmative action and diversity plans; conducting diversity audits for higher, secondary, and elementary education; supervision and staff development needs assessments and training; conducting and reporting on complex investigations; conducting comprehensive organizational reviews and assessments of equal opportunity compliance; mediation and conflict resolution skills; grant writing; educational research (school climate studies for post-secondary, secondary, and elementary levels); and conducting Title II and Title IX sexual and racial harassment assessments for higher, secondary, and elementary educational institutions.
Academic leaders and faculty members often cite the importance of interpersonal skills when leading an academic unit, managing a research team, or functioning as a productive member of any team or unit in academia. However, emotional intelligence and self-awareness are less commonly mentioned as predictors of success among academic teams. In this video course, department chairs and faculty will discover the connection between emotional intelligence and individual, team, and department results. Through Daniel Goleman’s four pillars of emotional intelligence, you will get ideas for how to: You will learn Daniel Goleman’s four pillars of emotional intelligence and informally assess your skill in each of these pillars. Once you have a greater awareness of how you “show up” for yourself and others, we’ll offer simple suggestions for how you can manage yourself and your relationships more productively.
Tony has held senior leadership positions within the higher education industry in the areas of facilities management, recreation, new student orientation, parent and family programs, leadership and training, marketing and communications, adult learning, and major events and programs. Over the last four years, Tony has presented at over thirty universities and national conferences on topics of innovation, digital leadership, technology, and unconventional leadership. He is the former innovation chair for ACPA’s national convention in Indianapolis and currently serves as co-chair of theACPA Digital Task Force. Tony is also co-host for Student Affairs issues on Higher Ed Live. Additionally, Tony has also had over twenty years of international corporate training in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, risk-taking, diversity, presentation skills, generational marketing, digital leadership, conflict resolution, and team cohesiveness. Past clients include Johnson and Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, Vistakon, Janssen, Navigant, Tumi International, United Way, Merrill Lynch, and Aventis Pharmaceuticals.
Ginnifer Cié Gee is the Associate Vice Provost for Career-Engaged Learning and a clinical faculty member at the University of Texas San Antonio. In addition, she has facilitated a leadership development series for staff and faculty since 2011. Prior to these roles, Cié held positions related to enrollment management and strategic planning, as well as for adjunct faculty in communication. One of her greatest passions is the study, observation, and strategy surrounding the interpersonal workplace dynamics of professionals and leadership development. Her experience teaching and supervising professional and student staff has provided practical knowledge in the areas of communication including nonverbal, perception, leadership, and conflict management. She has presented over 50 sessions on these topics at the institutional, state, regional, and national levels, and has received multiple awards for her presentation skills. Cié holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Communication, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership.
As you navigate more complex leadership roles, you will also navigate more contentious issues and conflicts. This makes the relationships you form with your colleagues not only “nice to have,” but essential: there is very little that cannot be accomplished when relationships are strong and built on a foundation of trust and mutual respect. During this discussion, you’ll learn how a President and a CFO built a relationship that propelled the success of their teams, the institution, and helped them both to thrive individually. Carmen Twillie Ambar, President of Oberlin College, and Audra Hoffman Kahr, Executive Vice President of Finance & Administration at Lafayette College, will share how they met, how their relationship evolved, and a few lessons they’ve learned along the way as women leaders in higher education.
Grace is manager of Programs & Industry Partnerships for Academic Impressions, where she develops dynamic training programs that give clients the knowledge and skills they need to solve complex problems and excel. The ability to help companies empower their employees and impact their mission is what inspires her everyday. Grace joined Academic Impressions in 2016, after leading the development of training programs for a Saudi Arabia-based educational organization. As a university instructor and avid adventurer, Grace followed her passion for new and challenging environments holding teaching and leadership positions in universities in South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Grace holds a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado and is a credentialed master trainer. She earned a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, as well. While the expression, “city girl with a mountain heart” may not actually exist, Grace says it describes her conflicted dichotomy perfectly.
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, […]
