Those newly positioned in academic leadership roles, from program directors or department chairs to presidencies, as well as those who simply want to respond more effectively to current challenges, can substantially increase their achievement of professional goals through AAL's coaching services that are focused on understanding and using key strengths in ourselves and others. Our coaching strategies are sensitive to the contexts and problems of complex health science organizations and their multiple constituencies. To discuss the options we can offer, please CONTACT US.
Below are profiles of AAL's two primary coaching experts, Dr. Judith E.N. Albino and Dr. Clyde H. Evans. If you are interested in AAL's professional coaching services, please read these two profiles and decide which expert's background, interests, and style best suits you and your needs:
Dr. Judith E. N. Albino is a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with the Academy for Academic Leadership. Her special areas of emphasis have included leadership coaching and training, organization and team development, conflict management, change management, and the assessment of individual leadership strengths and career development. She currently is President Emerita and Interim Dean for the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver.
Dr. Albino received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a graduate-level certificate in Executive Coaching from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City. She is a Fellow and Past-Treasurer of the American Psychological Association, a Past-President of the Society of Psychologists in Management, and a Past-President of the Behavioral Scientists in Dental Research of the AADR/IADR. During her early faculty years at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Albino developed a highly productive research program focused on psychosocial aspects of dental-facial disfigurement, as well as primary prevention of oral diseases in children. Having recently resumed her research, she is PI and Director of the NIDCR-funded Center for Native Oral Health Research at the University of Colorado Denver.
An accomplished scientist and academic leader, Dr. Albino's breadth of experience is reflected by a history of membership on corporate boards, civic and charitable organizations, and a term as chair of the Presidents' Commission of the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
Dr. Albino has worked with academic health organizations and associations in strategic planning and a variety of consulting and problem resolution capacities, as well as in the areas of leadership and organization development described above. She has worked with academic departments and school-level units, as well as CTSA senior scientists and training directors. As an executive coach, she has worked with leaders at the highest levels in higher education, corporate, and non-profit organizations. Her own leadership experience, her advanced training in psychology, and her training in professional coaching lend depth to a coaching approach that is solidly grounded in the evidence base of the cognitive and behavioral sciences.
Dr. Albino builds partnerships with her coaching clients, focusing first on identifying individual strengths. These steps provide the basis for facilitating, guiding, and supporting the learning that is required to build effective behavior patterns for leadership. In her words, "Being the best that we can be is what we owe to the organizations that employ us, to the constituencies that support those organizations, to the people with whom we work -- and certainly, to ourselves. As a coach, I work with my clients -- confronting whatever challenges are presented--to help them deliver on these goals."
Dr. Clyde H. Evans is a Senior Consultant and Executive Coach with the Academy for Academic Leadership, working in the areas of professional and executive development, organizational management, teambuilding, strategic planning, interprofessional education, and executive coaching. He is also president of CE Consulting, providing a range of career, professional, and organizational consultation to individuals and institutions in academic and health related fields.
Dr. Evans received his Ph.D. in physics and philosophy from Michigan State University, was a tenured professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and spent 5 years doing academic and personal counseling at Harvard College before going into academic administration and consulting.
For 13 years Dr. Evans served at Harvard Medical School as a member of the faculty, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Director of the Office for Academic Careers where he provided individual career and personal consultation to junior faculty. In this role, he was also responsible for identifying and addressing institutional impediments to career success for all faculty and fellows, with special attention to the barriers faced by women and minorities.
Dr. Evans was a Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation Health Policy Fellow, working for Senator Bill Frist on biomedical research, bioengineering, academic health centers, and cloning and a Scholar-in- Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges, working on leadership issues with the Council of Deans. For nearly 10 years Dr. Evans was vice president at the Association of Academic Health Centers and Director of the American Network of Health Promoting Universities, a RWJ-funded project that encouraged and supported health-promoting partnerships between universities and communities.
Dr. Evans has conducted numerous seminars on professional, executive and organizational development and has consulted at all levels of academic health centers. His recent publications focus on faculty development and leadership and on interprofessional education. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees at A.T. Still University of Health Sciences and at Regis College in Weston, MA.
Dr. Evans' special expertise in coaching includes academic advancement (promotion and tenure), career transitions (searching for, being recruited to, or settling into a new position; moving from faculty to administration), special issues faced by women and minorities, and leadership development. In his words, "Coaching is not therapy and we do not delve into deep, dark secrets. Coaching is not necessarily about what you are doing 'wrong.' More often it is about your aspirations to do good things better. Your actual day-to-day tasks, responsibilities and activities provide the 'grist for the mill.' That is, we look at what's happening in your work life and professional roles and reflect on what can be learned and what can be improved."
