What conditions enable people and organizations to flourish?
Understanding the conditions that enable people and organizations to flourish requires integrating multiple perspectives.
This display image of beautiful blue mountain water and braided rivers in New Zealand was captured by Paul Wilson.
Integrative Lenses
Each integrative lens offers a complementary perspective. Together, they help ask better questions, uncover deeper insights, and develop a richer understanding than any one perspective alone.
Leadership
How do leaders influence how people learn, adapt, and make decisions?
Organizational Learning
How do organizations create, share, and apply knowledge?
Organizational Design
How do structures, roles, and processes shape behavior and performance?
Systems Thinking
How do interactions reveal patterns that isolated events cannot?
From Understanding to Practice
My work brings these perspectives together through research, teaching, assessment, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. Across academic and administrative settings, I have collaborated with others to understand complex challenges, develop practical approaches, and strengthen individual and organizational capacity.
Selected Work
My professional work spans research, assessment, teaching, strategic planning, and organizational leadership. Across these areas, I have worked with faculty, staff, institutional leaders, and external partners to understand challenges, develop practical approaches, and strengthen educational and organizational practices.
The selected initiatives presented here illustrate different aspects of my work, from national research partnerships and curriculum assessment to institutional strategy and operational leadership. Although the contexts and responsibilities differ, they reflect a shared interest in connecting knowledge, people, and organizational capacity to drive meaningful improvement.
National Assessment & Institutional Learning
GPI and PSRI assessment initiatives, national institutional partnerships, and research supporting student learning and development.
Research · Assessment · Institutional consultation
Curriculum Assessment & Faculty Development
Agronomy curriculum alignment, faculty consultation, SoTL, and assessment of entrepreneurial mindset in engineering education.
Teaching · Curriculum · Faculty collaboration
Institutional Strategy & Organizational Improvement
Strategic enrollment management framework, student success planning, and residence life planning and implementation.
Systems thinking · Strategic planning · Implementation
Leadership, Operations & Stewardship
Residential education, auxiliary operations, resource allocation, and improvements to the student experience.
Leadership · Operations · Resource stewardship