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Arriving at Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 2012, I am the inaugural holder of the Board of Trustees Distinguished Chair in Leadership and Ethics, a position uniquely designed to engage external stakeholders with students, faculty, and program opportunities. My role supports three main strategic focus areas:

• Increase Â鶹ÊÓƵ’ national and international footprint through scholarship, research-based engagements, and high profile recognitions
• Increase and broaden career readiness through alumni engagement
  
• Increase and deepen opportunities for experiential learning for all students across campus
  

My scholarship activities continue to explore how experiential education impacts students, learning outcomes, and teaching practice. Most recently, I am interested in the intersection of experiential pedagogies, student mental health & wellbeing, and the educator role in supporting students' needs. My 2025 meeting Management Education & Development addresses that topic and how experiential educators can be more intentional about using teaching practice to support our students' wellbeing. Research into managerial practice has taken a few different routes. I examine remote work and managerial practice, and explaining why managers and executives resist remote work so strongly. At least one answer lies in how current managerial practice has not fundamentally changed to accommodate seeing much less of remote employees. I'm also exploring how executives learn new skills and better effectiveness through identity work. Last, my partnership with the City of St Peter and its City Council allows me research insights into how how municipal leaders prioritize very different constituent issues and resolve serious conflict.

 At the Academy of Management I am thrilled to join the newly re-energized for a two year term beginning in 2024. It was through the original EEC where I met my book co-authors Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M) and Paul Vaaler (University of Minnesota); our ETHICIST blogs became a book published in May 2018 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis press) entitled, " The cases and discussion questions in that book form the basis of workshops and mentoring sessions throughout the Academy's consortia and with other communities such as the Academy of International Business.

I continue my longstanding engagement with two experiential education journals (the and our 'sibling' publication ) through editorial review board membership and author mentoring. My co-authored book (2022, Edward Elgar) was written as a resource for doctoral students and faculty using engaged learning for the first time. The book reframes learning within experiential learning theory. My co-authors Nancy Niemi (Framingham State University) and Charles Fornaciari (La Salle University) and I walk educators through essential course planning steps, course running steps, and post-course wrap up and assessment steps. My latest book, "" (2024, Edward Elgar) is distilled from my 20 years of editorial work. Assessing individual manuscripts for publication is only a small fraction of the work editors do, but really, no one tells you that before you take on the EIC role! Based on my editorial experience, I show in the book how engaging with authors to help them develop their scholarly capacity and skill set lifts research quality across any disciplinary domain. Values-driven and ethically-bound, the book shares lots of practical examples for editors.

Getting Â鶹ÊÓƵ' brand recognized outside the United States is the focus of many the opportunities I accept internationally. I won a role to assist institutions in countries under-represented in academic scholarship, a role I will be continuing through an editorial role with the . Many nascent countries struggle to get their faculty's research published in mainstream journals, an ethical imperative when entire blocs of voices and perspectives are not being shared in academic research. I have worked with in 2023 and 2024 supported by a Fulbright award, resulting in our new exchange agreement beginning Fall 2025 term. I also work with other institutions around the world, such as the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and University of St. Andrews in Scotland sharing faculty developmental sessions of all kinds.

Engaging students in learning about investing and markets is also a passion of mine. I am thrilled to partner with Trustees and other investment experts as advisor to bring student members onto the Board of Trustees Investment Committee, a group charged with actively managing Â鶹ÊÓƵ' endowment. Engaging with the group of professionals sharing their talents to secure Â鶹ÊÓƵ' financial future is truly a signature experience for students, and unique among any college or university. I also advise the E. Terry Skone Investment Club here on campus, where students work with a mid-six-figure portfolio invested in a variety of positions, learning strategies for diversification and ways of analyzing potential positions. In 2024, the Skone Club won a Magnuson Leadership & Service Award for its long-term positive impact on learning, outreach, and philanthropy. To date, the Club has donated over $120,000 in scholarship money back to the College.

My conflict resolution practice takes many forms. I am a certified mediator through the and a , training that deploys a structured, person-centered approach to resolving very difficult issues. At Â鶹ÊÓƵ, I serve as a faculty Ombuds to help talk through and resolve complex issues from my neutral and non-judgmental perspective. I love conflict situations for the possibilities of strengthening relationships and clearing the air that they provide. 

I grew up in Chicago on the north side. I found my way to Notre Dame for undergraduate studies. My combined major of French and Business allowed me to combine a liberal arts discipline with practical business learning. My Masters degree from Aquinas College, staffed mainly by senior managers across industries, was an essential support for my own managerial practice skill set, as I was a bank manager and a small business owner during that program. I earned my Ph.D. in organizational behavior and ethics from Saint Louis University, where again the liberal arts combination was at play: the OB degree was from the Chaifetz School of Business while the ethics portion of the degree was facilitated within the Philosophy department. Here's what I learned about philosophers: they do not care for PowerPoint.

My latest c.v. and executive summary from May 2025 are attached below.

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