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Dr. Sherry Gevedon:
Dr. Gevedon is an
entrepreneur, academic administrator and leader in
distance learning. She has over 20 years experience as a
consultant, trainer, practitioner and educator. She is
well known for her strategic leadership in creating
distance learning and in navigating change through
technology supported education. Her experiences have
spanned academia, corporations and government agencies.
She is the founder of three professional service
businesses since 1991. Professional Education Seminars,
Inc., which she founded and led for 9 years, provided
leadership consulting services to health care
organizations and continuing education for nurses. Her
recent entrepreneurial start-ups include two
professional services firms, Leadership for Change and
Executive Health Care Solutions Group.
A history of teaching
experiences in academia include both disciplines of
Nursing and Business. Dr. Gevedon served in various
academic faculty and administrator positions.
In the year 2000, Dr.
Gevedon created and implemented the first online
corporate university in the pharmaceutical industry.
She introduced the term enterprise wide elearning and
has been featured in over 7 articles for her work in
corporate elearning as well as received the elearning of
the year award in 2001. A complete enumeration of Dr.
Gevedon’s awards and publications for this initiative
are available online.
Dr. Gevedon’s latest
experience focuses on building strategic organizational
ventures that serve the Department of Defense and
Federal elearning initiatives. Recently, her engagements
have included working with NASA’s Academy of Program and
Project Leadership where she was responsible for leading
the recent acquisition of a $50 million dollar
procurement. She has developed strategies for
leveraging elearning in colleges and universities,
corporations, and government agencies.
Today, Dr. Gevedon is
Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship at the University of
Cincinnati, College of Nursing, Cincinnati, Ohio. In
this role she is responsible for creating strategic
community partnerships, distance learning and continuing
education. In addition to her current role, she has just
been appointed Associate Director of the Center for
Continuous Professional Development, a joint venture
that she along with two other colleagues in the College
of Medicine and Pharmacy created in the Academic Health
Center to serve as the University of Cincinnati’s online
continuing education initiative. |
