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HOW I LEARNED TO MAKE AN IMPACT

With 18+ years in higher education leadership, R. Lizzie Wahab specializes in internationalization and fiscal expansion in Institutions of Higher Learning. Wahab has served her universities as an administrator, marketer, negotiator, academic, and student. As a vice-president, she transformed quiet, underperforming enrollment teams into powerhouses in their local market, regionally, and internationally. As a communicator, she has crafted winning campaigns for rebranding branch campuses and flagships in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. As a negotiator, Wahab has gone toe-to-toe with state officials and with representatives of multinational companies to secure the best agreements for her institutions. As an academic, she has been adept in presenting the results of her organizational research at conferences in her discipline. And, finally, as a student, she is augmenting her quantitative research background with the qualitative skills necessary to tackle systemic problems in her vocation.

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The common spark in all of these roles is the particular leadership style she employs: a predilection to evoke in colleagues a desire to chase after a positive vision of the future, one rooted in courage, joy, and a reflex for self-sacrifice in service to students.