Helping the next set of public leaders adapt and develop

Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA

• Supported a graduate course built on Ronald Heifetz's Adaptive Leadership framework and the case-in-point method, where the classroom itself becomes the material students learn from.
• Planned class sessions with the instructor, held office hours, and worked one on one with students to make dense leadership theory click for people coming from very different backgrounds.
• Practiced the core skill of the course every week: reading the room, naming what is happening in it, and helping a group stay with hard questions instead of rushing past them.

University of Costa Rica · San José, Costa Rica

• Taught undergraduate classes on leadership and ethics, strategic communication, rural and local development, and models and trends in public governance, always tying the theory back to how it plays out in a real public office.
• Advised five final thesis projects on local development, public policy, and budget analysis, and served as research adviser on several other student projects.
• Worked as a researcher and international project coordinator for the School, designing research proposals and community engagement projects to widen its reach beyond Costa Rica.