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.