I’m a skilled faculty developer, workshop facilitator, coach, and writer-scholar who works with higher ed professionals experiencing burnout and stuck-ness.
Burnout Faculty Development and Workshops
An active faculty development professional, I design and facilitate programming and workshops for faculty and leaders around burnout, vitality, and compassionate leadership. In the last three years, I’ve worked with over 70 colleges and universities, both virtually and in person to deliver engaging workshops and design activities.
Burnout Coaching
An ACC-certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, I have over 165 hours of education and 240+ hours of experience working one-on-one with academics on topics ranging from burnout and vitality to project management, writing skills, and career planning. I trained with Dr. Katie Linder to specifically work with higher ed professionals.
Burnout Writer-Scholar
After a debilitating experience with burnout as a tenured faculty member, I used my experience to study and write about burnout for academic audiences for the higher ed press and general higher ed audiences. I am current writing a book for higher ed leaders about dealing with burnout productively.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
- PhD, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
- Director of the Office of Faculty Professional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Certified Scrum Master and design thinking workshop facilitator with 100+ hours training and experience
- ACC-certified coach with the International Coaching Federation with over 165 hours of education and 240+ hours of coaching experience
- Previously tenured professor with 17 years of experience teaching undergraduates
- experienced workshop facilitator working with over 70 colleges and universities around burnout, well-being, vitality, and compassionate leadership
- Author of two books – Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins, 2022) and Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching (University of Chicago, 2017)
- Co-editor of two edited collections – Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and the forthcoming Of Many Minds: Faculty and Staff Mental Health and Neurodiversity in Higher Education (Johns Hopkins)
Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Ph.D. 