Susan Conklin joins the College of Professional Studies in Fall 2023 as a professor of practice and program director for the Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS) in Creative Leadership. She will teach and develop online courses in leadership and management, while serving as the undergraduate director for the Creative Leadership major. She will also create and facilitate non-credit programs in leadership development for our Office of Professional Acceleration and Microcredentials.
Conklin is the managing director at the Institute for Applied Development, a full-service consulting, education, and training organization. She also designs assessments and facilitates online and hybrid courses and certification programs. Additionally, she is a principal/consultant with Concentric Personal & Professional Growth in Syracuse, where she provides consultation, workforce training, and organization development for corporate, non-profit, government, and educational clients. Conklin comes to the College of Professional Studies with a wealth of experience and knowledge from the private sector and from being a practitioner-scholar of leadership over the course of her unique career.
She has served as a part-time instructor at the College of Professional Studies’ Bachelor of Professional Studies program since 2015 and has been vital in the creation of the Creative Leadership Program. She teaches organizational leadership, strategic leadership, leadership application and behaviors, and customer relations leadership. In addition, she provides professional development and executive coaching and training through the Office of Professional Acceleration and Microcredentials.
Conklin is a member of the American Society for Training and Development. She is also the co-chair for the State University of New York Leadership Institute’s “Leadership Tools for Women” Program.
Conklin earned a Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University, with a concentration in marketing management, organizational change and development, and she earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Le Moyne College.
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