Brent Pieper, Ed.D., CFRE

In his current role, Brent oversees the University’s $2.1 billion campaign. With over twenty-three years of fundraising experience on campaigns totaling more than four billion dollars, he previously held the position of Assistant Vice President and Director of Campaign Operations at Cleveland State University. Brent has also led major gifts and campaign leadership positions for […]

Chandani Patel

Chandani provides strategic direction for the global diversity education area within the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation. She focuses particularly on creating inclusive teaching and learning environments for students, faculty, and staff and is committed to advancing a more equitable higher education landscape. Chandani has presented and facilitated numerous workshops and presentations […]

Chelsey Megli

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 […]

Zaryab Iqbal, Ph.D.

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 […]

Karen J Souter, MB BS, ACC

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 […]

Sana Loue, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.S.A., M.A., LISW, CST-T, AVT 

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), […]

Angela Altamore

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 […]

Eliza McNulty

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 […]

Yojanna Cuenca-Carlino, Ph.D.

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, […]

Dr. Sean Lyons

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 […]