Washington, District of Columbia, United States
🌟 My Vision: To increasingly invest my time and energy in making positive impacts at progressively larger scales. 🌱 Personal Passion: I'm passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to make a difference in their communities and the world through the power of education 🌍! 🚀 Experience: As an Associate Vice President and Associate Managing Principal at AGB, I provide strategic guidance, leadership development, and innovative solutions to empower higher education boards, leaders, and institutions to identify how they can best sustain their missions, My past experiences span business, partnership, and brand development, sales and revenue diversification and strategy development, sales pipeline management, digital transformation, cross-functional team building, and more. 🔍 How can I help you? With over 15 years of experience as an thought-leader, educator, author, business developer, relationship builder, and consulting advisor, I specialize in guiding organizations and leaders through the complexities of the 21st century digital revolution. With expertise and skills that are industry agnostic, I'll immediately bring you value by connecting with you to actively listen to your challenges, needs and goals. I'll work collaboratively with you to develop solutions and identify the best pathways forward, and I will always be just a phone call or Zoom away if you need to check-in or trouble shoot any obstacles along the path to implementation and success. 🔑 Expertise: 🎓 Higher Education Leadership, Strategy, Digital Transformation, Partnership Development and Consultative Advising 📚 Strategy, Operations, Business, and Brand Development 🌐 Knowledge and Skill Development 👥 Research, Program, and Relationship Management 💼 Roles: 🌟 Strategic Thinker, Partner, & Advisor 🎯 Data informed Problem Solver 👥 Team Builder and Empathic, Participative Leader
Lead a cross-functional team of Higher Education strategists, enterprise architects, and technology quality assurance infrastructure and operations specialists to elevate impact and bring greater value to our diverse technology Managed Service clients.
Serve as a strategic partner to internal client service teams and Higher Education campuses navigating growth, innovation and transformation issues.
As a faculty instructor within Colorado State University's Department of Sociology since 2011, I am responsible for developing, managing, and delivering both traditional face-to-face and asynchronous online courses aligned with needs of the Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. Courses which I have developed and taught include synchronous, face-to-face, and asynchronous online types within the sociology, criminology, and criminal justice subfields. As opportunities have arisen, I have provided service and support to the Department & University in the areas of new faculty hiring review and curriculum development, as well as student advising. My average instructional quality rating is 4.8/5.
As a research project manager, I created, budgeted, executed numerous qualitative and quantitative social science research projects, and disseminated the final results to diverse stakeholders, while occassionally supervising research center staff. As needed, I developed collaborative research and information sharing partnerships with governmental, non-profit, and private sector organizations in the Colorado front range area.
As Associate Vice President/AMP, I provide team leadership, lead high-impact sales strategies and business development initiatives, driving significant revenue growth for higher education consulting services. I work across teams, to align our solutions and services with institutional goals, and build lasting partnerships with senior board and academic leaders. My leadership has consistently resulted in hitting or exceeding revenue targets and expanding our market presence through tailored, data-driven solutions that address key challenges in higher education.
As Senior Director, I led managed a high-performing team, driving business and revenue growth through consultative selling and solution-based strategies for our higher ed members/clients. I developed operational and sales processes, coached team members, and worked cross-functionally to align objectives. My leadership resulted in exceeding annual revenue targets and significant growth in new business opportunities.
Led the business development and sales strategy creation for the the Strategy, Transformation, and Innovation consulting group. Supervised practice leaders, consultants, and support staff to collaboratively to realize our OneAGB strategic vision, as well as the financial and strategic goals of our consulting practice. Regularly engaged in listening sessions, conversations, and consultative sales calls with a diverse array of Higher Ed institutions and C-suite leaders. Developed virtual content and moderated webinars, workshops, and conference presentations. Ultimately, I am responsible for both driving growth in the number of engagements and fiscal year revenue, while ensuring our team continues to improve operationally and tactically. In FY21, our team achieved $2+ million in revenue (+15% over prior year).
I managed the daily operations of the 1,300+ subscriber academic, peer-reviewed journal. This included supervising the content pipeline, ensuring production schedules were met, and preparing submissions publication. I prepared and presented annual reports, alongside th editors, at the Midwest Sociological Society meetings and served as the journal's point of contact for internal and external communications. I coordinated task flows and information sharing between the marketing, production, editorial and advisory board teams to ensure journal goals and objectives were well-defined.