Sept. 2025. "Shared Governance on the Modern College Campus." Presentation for doctoral class on Higher Education Governance and Finance at the University of South Florida.
April 2024. "Academic Freedom and Free Speech at College Campuses. Panel. The Public Relations Society of America--Counselors to Higher Education.
Feb 2024 "Brain Research, Learning Theory, and Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered," Presentation for the Piedmont University Center for Teaching and Learning.
Jan. 2024 "Leadership 101," Presentation for the Habersham County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Habersham.
July 2024 "Brain Research and Learning Theory." The International Conference on Learning, Utrecht University, Utrecht Netherlands.
Sept 2023 "Leading from Your Values." Presentation to the Piedmont University Center for Teaching and Learning.
July 2023 "Three Pillars of Adaptive and Collaborative Leadership," and "The Congruency Model: Putting the Three Pillars Together Under One Roof," two presentations, and Panelist, for The Academy for Advancing Leadership in Atlanta, Georgia.
July 2023 Led three strategic planning sessions for AVMA, CVMA, and NVMC in Washington, DC; Quebec City, Quebec; and Denver, CO.
July 2022 “Lessons from Elite Athletes and Coaches in Leadership, Motivation, and Organization.” The International Conference on Learning, University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain.
July 2021 “The Quantum University: New Knowledge Requires New Leadership.” The International Conference on Learning, Jagiellonion University in Krakow, Poland.
Sept. 2020 Keynote: “Critical Leadership in Critical Times.” The Conference for Critical and Creative Thinking. The University of South Florida—St. Petersburg. Co-speaker with Dr. Martin Tadlock.
July 2019 “Democratic Schools: Making Shared Governance Meaningful.” The International Conference on Learning, Queens University in Belfast, Ireland.
July 2019 Workshop Leader: “Assuming the Mantle of Leadership.” Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL). Atlanta, GA.
July 2018 Workshop Leader: “Assuming the Mantle of Leadership.” Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL). Atlanta, GA.
Oct. 2017 Roundtable Discussant Leader: “Involving Faculty in Student Retention.” Council of Independent Colleges Annual Conference in San Antonio.
Oct, 2017 Panel Chair: “Title IX Changes in Higher Education.” CIC Annual Conference in San Antonio.
Nov. 2016 Interview on Georgia Public Broadcasting: Reframing Decision Making in Education. Interview with Candice Felice of WPPR.
Oct. 2016 Keynote Speaker. “Making a Difference: Talking about Adults Students in the Right Way and Taking Action.” Reaching Out to the Adult Learner Conference at the Montana University System. Helena, MT.
Oct. 2016 Session presentations. “A Vortex Approach to Student Retention.” Annual GACROA and GSEM Conferences. Savannah, GA.
Oct. 2016 Roundtable Discussant Leader. “Involving Faculty in Enrollment Management.” CIC Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.
March 2016 Keynote Speaker. “Who are We Talking About? What is our Responsibility? Adult Student Recruitment and Retention Conference, Madison, WI.
March 2016 Session Speaker. Adult Student Recruitment and Retention Conference.
Madison, WI.
Dec. 2015 “Collaborations between Academic Affairs and Development,” Discussant Chair. Council of Independent Colleges. Baltimore, MD.
Nov. 2014 “Faculty Transitions into Retirement,” Panel Chair. Council of Independent Colleges, Portland, OR.
Jan. 2011 “The Compass Project and Study Abroad for Underserved Students.” AAC&U Conference in San Francisco. With Carleen VandeZande.
April 2010 “Looking at Underserved Student Success in High Impact Practices” at the annual Higher Learning Commission Conference in Chicago, IL. With Carleen VandeZande.
April 2010 “High Impact Practices and Campus Inquiry: A Campus Journey” at
the UW System President’s Summit in Madison, WI. With Dr. Carleen Vande Zande.
Jan. 2010 “Student Compass: LEAP Initiative at UW Oshkosh” at the annual AAC&A Conference in Washington, DC. With Dr. Carleen VandeZande.
June 2008 “The Graduation Project: Online for the Adult Nontraditional Student” at the World Conference on Multimedia & Telecommunications in Vienna, Austria.
May 2007 “University Leadership Fellows: Grow Your Own Leaders” at the annual HLC Conference in Chicago, IL. With Richard Wells and Susan Nuernberg.
Dec. 2005 “Democratic Principals in Schools” at the International Conference on Women, Diversity, and Human Rights in Melbourne, Australia.
Dec. 2003 “School Reform Through Natural Leadership” at the Annual Learning Conference in London, England.
Dec. 2002 “Educational Leadership Must Take a Quantum Leap” at the Annual Learning Conference in Beijing, China.
March 2001 "Educations Quantum Leap" at the annual ASCD Conference in Boston, MA.
Dec. 2000 "Staff Development Learns Lessons from the Sciences" at the annual National Staff Development Council conference in Atlanta, GA.
March 2000 “A New Approach to Differentiated Supervision" as a ticketed session at the Annual ASCD Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Oct. 1999 "The Preparation of Educational Administrators: The Caring Intellectual Model" at the North American Chapter of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction in San Antonio, TX.
March 1999 "Brain Research and How it Informs Pedagogy" as a ticketed session at the Annual ASCD Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Feb. 1999 "Minority Teacher Recruitment: The Lakeland College Urban Teachers Outreach Program" at the Northern Illinois University Phi Delta Kappa Chapter.
Jan. 1999 "Ways to Make Your Classroom Constructivist and Brain-Based." at the National Conference of "Anticipating Change: Innovations in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment" at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, TX
March 1998 "Improving Teaching and Learning Through the Supervision Process" at the ASCD Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX
Jan. 1998 "Constructivist Teaching as it Relates to Brain Research" at the North American Conference on the Learning Paradigm in San Diego, CA
April 1997 "Minority Teacher Preparation in an Ex-Urban Setting: The Lakeland College Urban Teachers Outreach Program Case Study." For the Third Annual Conference of Family and Community Violence Prevention--in Lincoln, NE at the University of Nebraska
Feb. 1997 "Minority Teacher Preparation in an Ex-Urban Setting: A Case Study of the Lakeland College Teachers Outreach Program." For the Third Annual Conference on Urban/Multicultural Education: Past, Present, and Future--in Miami, FL at Florida International University.