Leadership Dashboard

In this post, I’ve curated a collection of artifacts that showcase my approach to leadership. To begin, press play on the video below. Then, navigate to the next page to explore folders linking to each artifact. Below the video, you’ll find context for every artifact and how each one supports my leadership approach.

Leadership Philosophy

My Leadership Philosophy outlines my core beliefs and values on leadership, which is centered on community, inclusivity, and collaboration. I believe leadership is about creating an environment where people feel supported, heard, and able to contribute their unique perspectives. My values, empathy, creativity, openness, and teamwork, guide how I approach change, problem-solving, and communication. I also incorporate coaching into my leadership style by asking reflective questions, encouraging self-exploration, and prioritizing ongoing, meaningful feedback. My Leadership Philosophy serves as a guide and set of personal principles that shape my work and inform the designs and approaches I create. The artifacts below and those linked in the Leadership Dashboard illustrate how my leadership style and values are put into action.

Approach to Coaching and Feedback

My coaching and feedback plan reflects how I support the growth and development of my team. Focused on collaboration, self-discovery, and open communication, it outlines what team members can expect from me and how we can work together to build a strong relationship, strengthen skills, and achieve shared goals. I aim to create coaching relationships that integrate empathy, curiosity, and continuous improvement, and one where feedback flows both ways and supports meaningful growth.

Illuminated Leadership Plan

My Illuminated Leadership Plan is a roadmap for how I apply leadership approaches to real-world projects. It begins with my Global Vision for Learning Design, which identifies a five-year leadership design goal and emphasizes application of new knowledge to workplace contexts, use of microlearning for skill development, and embedding feedback throughout the design process. The threads of collaboration, empathy, and reflection are included in my Global Vision.

Moving from vision to action, I created a Project Scope to outline each component of a learning experience design from development through launch. The project scope was created for a new microlearning course called Appreciative Sparks that assists academic advisors in understanding how to use appreciative advising concepts and phrases in everyday discussions with students. The project scope clearly details project objectives, deliverables, constraints, roles and responsibilities, timeline, and resources. It also outlines key stakeholders, including project leadership, designers, and learners, and important milestones in which I need to ensure deliverables meet their specified deadlines.

Finally, I created an Illuminated Leadership Evaluation Plan within the Project Scope to assess the Appreciative Sparks microlearning before, during, and after launch. It uses Kaufman's Five Levels of Evaluation to measure usability, learning acquisition, and participants' overall confidence in applying Appreciative Advising phrases after completing the course. This final piece highlights my leadership approach of inclusivity by obtaining consistent feedback from the learner, as well as considering direct application of content to the learner's work.

Sample Leadership Activities

Additional items have been included in my leadership dashboard to provide examples of how I approach leadership in various contexts. First is a Community Canvas, which outlines my approach to leading a team focused on improving the early academic warning process at MSU. This community canvas outlines the purpose of the group, the use of collective leadership to progress the group's charge and ensure all perspectives are considered, meeting structures, communication strategy, and guidance on membership and resources. Because I lead from a community-focused lens, collective leadership and shared responsibilities was an important element for my Community Canvas.

In addition to the Community Canvas, I created a Communication Example in the form of a memo to the early academic warning group. This memo includes expectations in organizing team materials into a shared folder, rotation of meeting facilitators and managing agendas, use of Teams for regular asynchronous collaboration, and keeping the group updated on project progress and to obtain feedback. It highlights group agreements and shared task management.

Finally, in alignment with my Project Scope Statement, I created an additional learning resource, the Advisor Escape Room. This serves as an alternative to the microlearning experience for practicing Appreciative Advising phrases. This interactive activity engages advisors in collaborative problem-solving as they work through student scenarios to advance through the escape room, reflecting my leadership approach of fostering teamwork and applying learning to real-world contexts.