Poole College Announces Nominees and Recipients of 2022 Staff Awards

“Allison is an exceptional colleague who has served the students of Master of Management, Marketing Analytics concentration with great dedication. All of the students in the program have had a wonderful time interacting with her as she works hard to ensure they have a great experience in the program and that their concerns are taken care of in a timely manner.”

“Jen leads by empowering and enabling her team, which she accomplishes primarily via operational innovation and efficiencies. During a time that we are all being asked to do more with shrinking resources, Jen has managed to meet enrollment targets, stay within budget and motivate and retain her team.”

“Sarah does a phenomenal job working with prospective students throughout the admissions process and provides outstanding service along the way. She has strong communication skills and is always quick to respond and give prospects the feedback and encouragement they need.”

“Michael has continued to impress me each day with his can-do attitude, kind demeanor, enthusiasm, and collaborative nature. He is well liked by the entire team and is respected for his expertise and his willingness to learn and try new things.”

“Susan continues to wow me with her incredible work ethic, stamina, innovation, and follow through. Because of Susan’s efforts, we have been able to implement new efficiencies like Lead Scoring. This was a huge team project and Susan played a big role in its completion.”

“Julie provides unwavering support, leadership and service to her team, the students, our larger MBA team as well as faculty and staff within the college. She provides a level of professionalism, empathy, humor and care that are second to none. Julie exemplifies an unwavering commitment to excellence and support to everyone and in everything that she does which is why I am thrilled to nominate her for the Human Relations award.”

“Jenny is an amazing individual to work with and exemplifies the qualities we seek in all of our employees of being curious to continuously grow and develop, displaying compassion and care for the health and success of our people, and executing her responsibilities to the best of her abilities with a positive attitude. She truly exemplifies the “think and do” spirit of NC State and Poole College.”

“Candise Lewis is simply outstanding. She not only completes every project and event she takes on with efficiency and professionalism, but she takes everything she does to a higher level. She is constantly looking for ways to improve, innovate, and excel in every task she takes on.”

“Maggie is truly a pleasure to work with and is always looking for ways that she and her group can improve the services provided by the office of business services. We are fortunate to have Maggie as our colleague and friend.”

“While her principle job responsibilities are to oversee the development of online classes in the Jenkins MAC Program, her impact is far greater. She is one of the first to raise her hand to volunteer to help anyone complete a task. Sometimes she even volunteers for a task I am not aware needs to be performed.”

“I have had the pleasure of knowing Chandra for over 3 years in two different roles in the college. In both roles she has always displayed enthusiasm, diligence and efficiency all while providing a huge smile.”

“It has never been more evident that our student worker staff appreciate their roles and think very highly of their supervisor. They clearly enjoy the time they spend at work, and the byproduct of their efforts enhance the public image of our department, college, and university. That is all thanks to Allison.”

“Adam is always professional and respectful to all parties. He has received a lot of positive feedback about his work and relationships he has built. I always feel like Adam will represent MarCom very well both internally and externally.”

“Deborah provides high-touch advising for all of her students. She is the person who asks about each student’s goals and helps them plan their program accordingly. She listens to students when they encounter difficulties in their personal, professional, or academic lives.”

“Ayo frequently asks our team “why”, and “how does this help us meet our goals” … questions that would often otherwise go unasked. He keeps us focused on improving our advising practices and figuring out how we can better serve students.”

“Brian helped us institute a multi-year scholarship award from a company that engages with the business analytics practicum projects. He helped us figure out how to set up the multi-year commitment within guidelines for such awards. It’s wonderful that this company is now back at the table again with scholarship money at Poole College.”

“This academic year, Tuesday took over the hiring of course support personnel for online courses. This was a big task that took a lot of my time in the previous years. Tuesday did an amazing job taking this over, ensuring that faculty received the support they needed in a timely fashion and that there were good candidates for the positions.”

“Susan Ebbs has been instrumental in the development, enhancement, and management of the MBA Program’s customer relationship management (CRM) and application software – Slate. She excels at thinking ahead and using a solution-focused approach to create reports, queries, workflows, and forms to conquer data bottlenecks and process issues.”

“What I love most about Asia is I can count on her to get things done. She wants to look at innovative ways to help our customers and processors to be efficient, effective, all while keeping us out of the N&O.”

“Morgan is always looking for new and creative ideas to enhance and support the MBA program. She has taken the initiative on many projects this year growing and improving the content that goes out for the program.”

“She is always willing to stop what she is doing to help a colleague and be a support system. Simply put, she is the reason OBS is where it is today. We still have a long ways to go, but I have no doubt we will get there under her leadership.”

“Troy has consistently managed a host of different strategic activities within the SCRC, and has been actively managing our group of 15 partner companies during a very difficult time over COVID.”

“Maria is an amazing leader. She demonstrates organizational excellence on a daily basis. She is always looking for ways to enhance our marketing and communications efforts. She keeps the team organized, has a strategic mindset and makes data-driven decisions. She is constantly striving for greatness – which in turn benefits the whole organization!”

“I think Chandra’s greatest contribution to a culture of constant improvement is her refreshingly pleasant attitude and always cheerful demeanor. I especially love her email greeting, whether it’s: “Happy Monday!” “Happy Friday!” or any happy day in between.”

“She continuously helps to come up with creative and innovative solutions to issues at hand. Beth has made preparing all my online courses a 1,000 times more efficient.” 

“Allison has embodied service, collaboration, and teamwork this year as she straddled both OBS and OUP responsibilities in her position. By creating, hiring, training, and mobilizing a team of student workers at the front desk, she addressed multiple issues and concerns in our unit including staffing in a resource-constrained environment”

“Tedd has done an excellent job all around in moving OUP forward. Tedd has done an excellent job in leading OUP and working with the curriculum committee and DEI committees that I also serve on.”

“Brian is always extremely fast and efficient with answering questions and solving problems. He knows his job very well, and when there are curve balls, he does the background work to find correct and complete answers. One never has to question his sincerity or completeness.”

“He is always looking for the next innovative improvement to streamline the work and make it better for all of our college partners. I appreciate his consistent innovative and inquisitive approach to how we can make our systems better.”

“The creative vision that Jacob had to get this series off the ground and the work that he continues to do innovate with additional entrepreneurship stories will only continue to help grow the brand of the college.”

“Jenny created and has lead the establishment of the Poole Thought Leadership and Poole Podcast as part of our Poole Thought Leadership. Since the launch of the Poole Thought Leadership and Poole Podcast the college has experienced a significant increase in web site traffic and more faculty are being cited in the business press.”

“Christina cares deeply about the career development of students, overseeing their career development just as if their development was the career development of her own children. She makes sure that every minute she works with students is 60 seconds worth of quality career guidance.”

“Connie is laser focused on serving students. She initiated and invite me to a meeting that I attended with alumni relations career services to explore practices to bring back to Poole and to build a connection.” 

“Jennifer is devoted and compassionate in her work with and support of students. She meets students where they are, brings her whole genuine self and encourages students to do the same, challenges and supports the advising team to better serve students, and keeps us all focused on student support and student success.”

“In her advising style, she also asks the hard questions that are sometimes difficult to navigate. She challenges students to find their ‘Why’ not just their ‘What’ and once they understand their ‘Why’, she can help them with the ‘How’. As a graduate of the Poole College of Management, she has unique perspective on the student experience which she brings into her advising style every day.”

“There are many ways in which Tedd’s untiring passion for helping our students is demonstrated.  But the one that comes to mind is the initiative done during the pandemic to help students with mental health problems. This deep caring and empathy is what is needed in the world.”

“He assists with identifying external grant opportunities, developing and revising proposals, and submitting proposals. He helps with budgeting and grant administration. And he facilitates access to data. Brian is an invaluable resource to me and an excellent staff member.”

“Adam goes above and beyond in everything he does. He was responsible for the marketing involved with starting two new graduate programs. With little to start with he has done an amazing job.”