My research examines how communication strategies impact women and minority leaders in dominant U.S. culture. In addition, I emphasize invitational rhetoric as a theory to guide conflict management practices.
keywords
human communication, gender communication and leadership, negotiation, conflict management, invitational rhetoric, executive leadership
Teaching
courses taught
BADM 1250 - Designing Your Leeds 1: Exploration
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Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Designing Your Leeds is a class about customizing your college experience to get the most out of it. Using a process rooted in Design Thinking, the course equips students with tools to design and prototype a college experience that best aligns with who they are and what they hope to get from college. Students will explore the purpose of college, reflect on personal values and strengths, learn about educational and career opportunities, and create a prototype of their 4 year experience. Through in-class activities and out of class assignments, students will also learn and practice professional and self-leadership skills.
BADM 1260 - First-Year Global Experience
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Spring 2025
In today's world of increased mobility, globally aware students have more choices for employment upon graduation and are immediately ready to contribute in global environments. They are aware of global issues and cultural differences, and their global mindset allows them to recognize good ideas from whenever they might come and new market/product opportunities wherever they might exist. This course is the first step toward the development of a global mindset. It provides a meaningful global experience to first-year business students through an in-depth perspective of a specific country or region outside the United States and a short academic trip to the region.
BADM 3100 - Designing Your Leeds 2: Preparation
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Spring 2026
This course provides opportunities to understand and develop professional competencies and durable skills for successful careers in business. This course helps students explore career pathways, increase knowledge of job search strategies, and formulate a career management plan for transitioning to the workplace. Topics such as resumes, cover letters, personal branding, job search strategies, internships, career choices, networking and career pathways will be covered. Degree credit not granted for this course and BADM 3200.
BADM 3200 - Designing Your Leeds 2: Accelerator
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Fall 2025
This course is for the Dean's Leadership Fellows and is designed to help students develop professional competencies and durable skills essential for successful careers in business. Through hands-on projects and experiential opportunities, students will explore career pathways, build adaptability for the workplace, and gain a clearer understanding of professional expectations. The course also strengthens knowledge of effective job search strategies and supports the development of a career management plan for transitioning into the workplace. Topics include resumes, cover letters, personal branding, internships, career decision making, networking, career pathways, and the strategic use of social media. Degree credit not granted for this course and BADM 3100.
BASE 2104 - BCOR Applied Semester Experience
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023
Focuses on major business decisions integrating across business functional areas. Students complete multiple business projects drawing on knowledge and tools from previous BCOR courses.
BCOR 1030 - Communication Strategy
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Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023
Helps develop basic communication skills to prepare you for success in the business world. This communication and social science theory-based, skill-building course is framed in Fiske and Cuddy's person perception theory that all people are perceived on two dimensions, competence and warmth. You will learn how to use communication skills to strategically demonstrate those dimensions.
COMM 2650 - Business and Professional Communication
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Fall 2019
Develops knowledge of concepts and skills required for successful participation in contemporary workplace communication. Focuses on communication processes associated with contexts such as sales, leadership, diversity, teamwork, customer service, and conflict. Facilitates students conduct of self-assessment, networking, interviewing, and other career-development strategies. Provides students training in informative and persuasive business presentations. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1300 and COMM 1600.
MBAE 6530 - Negotiations
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
Negotiation is subtle skill. The goal of this course is to make you a better negotiator. Students will explore the major concepts and theories of the psychology of negotiation, and apply their knowledge of these topics through directed practice and case analysis. Successful students will be committed to actively participating in the simulations, and be willing learn from the feedback as well as the behavior of others in the course.
ORGN 3025 - How to Be the Boss
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Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 / Summer 2025
The course takes as its starting point the fact that not all students will be leaders. A student may end up as an individual contributor, or manager of a small group of people, or an owner of a sole-proprietorship. Students can have a tremendous impact on these roles and the questions becomes, how can they become the best they can be? Same as CESR 3025. Formerly MGMT 3025.
