Leadership
This page highlights my contributions and accomplishments as a leader. Some of these positions were named leadership roles and some provided opportunities to create transformative change as part of the work. Leaders emerge from all levels especially when given the opportunity to float creative and innovative ideas.
Leadership Roles
highlighting roles that included program development, management responsibilities, consensus building, and outreach needs and opportunities
Department Chair, Department of Exercise Science
My focus has been on departmental culture and identity. We have built a collaborative and productive climate where we share ideas and support our colleagues. I have lead initiatives including curricular changes, schedule management to support learning priorities, implementation of more inclusive teaching practices, and focus on community wellness and wellbeing. Throughout my time as chair I maintained a robust and rigorous research agenda setting up future chairs to incorporate their professional goals and trajectory as part of the leadership.
budget management; professional development, mentoring, and evaluation; curricular management and development; fundraising; hiring; marketing; strategic planning
Co-Director of Elon BrainCARE Research Institute
This research institute was built from the ground up. We established BrainCARE to serve our institution around Concussion Advocacy, Research and Education initially. We have expanded our mission to support environments to promote mentally healthy habits. We include students, campus partners, and external partners in all aspects of our work.
budget management; community outreach and education; partnership building; research mentoring and management; grant writing; fundraising; identity development and marketing; conference organization and host
Director of Health Professions
In this role I transformed the way our campus views and practices health profession advising. I moved us from a model of one major is the path to medicine and another a path to physical therapy. Our campus now embraces a model where it doesn't matter what you major in and there is no one path to any career in health professions. This has opened opportunities for more students to achieve their goals. I have not served as director for several years but continue to sit at tables that have expanded our School of Health Sciences offerings and partnership programs to health professions
budget management; program development and outreach; training and education; advising and marketing materials
Working Group Co-Chair
Wellness and Wellbeing:
Co-lead initiatives for holistic community wellness and wellbeing. Presented strategic recommendations for short and long-term implementation. Identified, adopted and implement a bold Wellness Campaign, Act-Belong-Commit, which centers habits of wellness supporting a mentally healthy community. I continue to lead in these areas without positional authority.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Professional Development:
Co-lead identification and recommendations to address the need for faculty development around diversity, equity, and inclusion in and out of the classroom. I continue to consult in this area across campus and am integrating campus education into my CEL scholar position championing inclusive practices, centering social justice, to support access to high-impact educational experiences.
consensus building; mapping to strategic plan; identifying partners; education and outreach; implementation planning
