Passionate and results-driven visionary leader with the ability to balance strategic decisions, administration, and financial discipline with a hands-on approach to leadership - resulting in strong ROI, employee, student, and stakeholder experience. * Strategic leader, engaging communicator and exceptional developer of highly effective sales and business development strategies with extensive experience in developing executive-level commercial business relationships and turning prospects into buying customers. * Success branding and stabilizing a nationally recognized educational corporation (2011) and a transitional post secondary program (2016). * Organized and detail-oriented academic administrator, adept at arranging and organizing student educational activities. Specialized in addressing student issues, developing and implementing new courses of study, evaluating student feedback, tracking stats, and measuring student progress. * Looking to leverage my academic acumen, administration experience and team leadership skills into a broad range of executive-level roles within the education sector. PROFICIENCY FORTE * Student & Community Engagement * Personable & Approachable * Budgeting & Forecasting * Organizational & Planning Skills * Revenue Creation * Faculty/Staff Development * Strategic Partnership * Engaging Communicator * Board Relations * Program Acquisition * Employee Management * Fundraising * Curricula Development * Training & Development * Administrative Efficiency * Strategically forged and nurtured relationships with Independent Educational Consultants, school counselors and non-profit programs as partners for Mitchell and/or Thames. * Worked closely with the VP for Engagement on opportunities involving friend/fundraising for Thames and/or the College. * Actively marketed Mitchell's and Thames' holistic and high-touch services to the LD community by providing information and resources regarding the programs and outcomes regionally as well as Nationally. * Conducted presentations at Open Houses and other Admissions events, as well as visited and networked schools and ensured pipeline development. * Managed the Thames Academy program and oversaw continued services for students enrolled in TA. * Developed a consistent approach to providing access for students' appropriate accommodations and responsible for updating the policies and protocols. * Developed and delivered Professional Development for RTI and SRBI and Common Core implementation. * Designed and provided tailored professional development workshops/programs to enable schools to meet strategic objectives. Mitchell College, New London, CT 2016 - 2018 Managing Director - Educational Outreach, Parent Engagement, and Student Relations Core Focus: Serve as a member of senior management team and front-facing customer service to incoming students and parents to both Mitchell College and Thames at Mitchell. Work with both constituencies to ensure a seamless transition from Thames to Mitchell College and leading up to and through alumni status. Key Contributions: * Create, manage and implement a strong LD feeder school model/pipeline for Enrollment Management via Relations Model. * Expertly manage budgets and finances, equipment, resources, human resources and training to ensure efficient organizational goal accomplishment. * Meet with prospective students and their families to explain the available programs for students with disabilities. * Work with Advancement to build and ensure solid, long-lasting, relationships exist with alumni, students, parents and others. * Conduct presentations at Open Houses and other Admissions events, as well as visit and network, schools and attend Admissions review meetings. * Provide training and development to the Mitchell College Community on disability-related topics. * Provide outreach to the LD community and attend external recruitment or informational events when requested. * Work in conjunction with VP of Student Affairs to develop and implement parent program for Thames and Mitchell. Mitchell College, New London, CT 2014 - 2016 Director of Individualized Services / Director of Thames Academy Core Focus: Provided comprehensive leadership over a wide range of student support services at Mitchell College. Directly oversaw Disability Student Services and the Bentsen Learning Center, Health and Wellness and the Tutorial Center, and Thames Academy. Key Contributions: * Ensured the holistic delivery of support to both Mitchell College and Thames Academy students and ensured the streamlining of services and communication amongst the varied arms of the department and college community at large. * Responsible for policy development, compliance and building the programs through professional networks and community involvement. * Provided guidance and mentorship to the staff working under the umbrella of Individualized Services department and further the College's relationship with parents and families throughout the recruiting and admissions process for both Mitchell College and Thames Academy. * Actively promoted and branded the programmatic goals for Mitchell and Thames through workshops and national presentations.

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• Human Resources
• LDA
• Leadership
• Management
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• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Office
• PeopleSoft
• New Business Development
• Parent Engagement
• Relationship Management
• Transition expert