Ricia Anne Chansky

She is the co-editor of the scholarly journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of the Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series. Her book publications include the co-edited volumes: The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader; Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas; and, The Untied States: Unraveling National Identity in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming). […]

Chelsea Powell

Chelsea provides leadership development to faculty and staff at Columbus State University and outside Leadership Institute clients. She is a National Certified Counselor, Mindset Qualified in FourSight, and holds several self-assessment tool certifications, including MBTI, FIRO-B and RightPath. Chelsea has been affiliated with Columbus State University for the last 8 years. She enrolled in the […]

Vicki Klopsch

A South Carolina native, Vicki earned her master’s degree in Organizational and Multicultural Communication from DePaul University (Chicago, IL). Her areas of expertise include organizational communication, strategic planning, and program assessment. A leader in higher education, Vicki currently serves as executive director of the Laspa Center for Leadership at Scripps College where she guides leadership […]

Rahul Bhat

Rahul Bhat leads a team of interdisciplinary professionals who support the learning of students with disabilities in the following areas: academic skills, resilience, self-advocacy, communication, and leadership. From 2015 until 2017, Rahul served as the Project Lead for the University of Toronto’s Resilience Project. The Project aimed to build a resilience framework and curricula that […]

Olena Zhadko, Ph.D.

Dr. Olena Zhadko is an enthusiastic educator devoted to advancing teaching and learning with technology. Olena has had experience with online learning as a student, instructor, designer and an administrator and she brings nearly 15 years of experience in Higher Education. She currently serves as the Director of Online Education at Lehman College, City University […]

Lou Guthrie

Lou joined the National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute in 2013 and leads the management and development of the National Community College Benchmark Project (NCCBP), the National Community College Cost and Productivity Project, the Workforce Training Benchmarking Project and the newest addition to NHEBI’s portfolio, the Maximizing Resources for Student Success project, a Gates Foundation project. […]

Dennis Kelly

Since joining Cabrini College in 2010 as the Vice President for Enrollment Management, Dennis has successfully implemented a landmark tuition reduction strategy resulting in an increase in first-year and overall undergraduate enrollment following three consecutive years of decline. He has also strategized and implemented a multi-year retention plan resulting in freshman retention rate increases over […]

Rabia Khan Harvey (she/her)

Rabia is a Senior Learning & Development Manager who coordinates open-enrollment programs and campus partner outreach efforts across multiple functional areas including advancement, academic leadership, and Title IX. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Elmhurst College and is a double-alum of Loyola University Chicago with a Master’s in both Higher Education and Human […]

Gender Identity and Gender Bias: A 5-Day Advanced Program

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Walt Gmelch

As an educator, management consultant, university administrator, and former business executive, Walt has conducted research and written extensively on the topics of leadership, team development, conflict, and stress and time management. He has published over two hundred articles, twenty-four books and monographs, and numerous scholarly papers in national and international journals. Today, Walt is one […]