EXPERIENCE and EXPERTISE

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CEO and founder Dr. Judy Favor is no stranger to success. She has distinguished herself as an award winning athletic coach, college educator, scholar, and speaker. Favor has been developing high performing teams and leaders for over 25 years, first as an NCAA D1 and D2 head softball coach where she led teams to 5 consecutive NCAA Regionals and one Final Four, earned four Coach-of-the-Year awards, and is in the Athletic Hall of Fame at Southeast Missouri State University, Columbus State University, and Culver-Stockton College. ​After "retiring" from college athletics to pursue a Ph.D., Favor served in a variety of leadership and faculty position roles in higher education, before turning her attention to leadership and team development teaching and consulting. She has been a private softball pitching coach for over 30 years and her athletes have gone on to play at at numerous NCAA and NAIA institutions across the United States.

 

Today, her personal coaching and leadership experiences combined with academic expertise and research in leader and team development, personality, and adult learning provide a unique and practical perspective in her work with teams and leaders.

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Dynamic Professional Adult Educator

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Favor is known for designing and facilitating interactive, practical workshops and classes that target working adults’ preferences and learning styles. She has presented on leadership and team development topics to diverse audiences and organizations throughout the United States and has developed and delivered hundreds of leadership development workshops to professionals from a variety of technical and non-technical fields.

 

In 2019, she was named Outstanding Graduate Faculty in the School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kansas State University in Olathe where she served for 11 years and developed and taught graduate courses focused on coaching for high performance, building and leading effective teams, interpersonal communication skills, emotional intelligence, motivating employees, and conflict management.  

 

   Leadership Development Teaching Experience: 

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• Full-time Faculty: Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, Columbus State University

• Senior Instructor - Army Command Staff College Continuing Education for Senior Leaders (CESL) - Strategic Leadership course

• Instructor - Army Command Staff College Brigade Spouse Course 

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  Leadership and Team Development Consulting Experience: 

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•   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District

•   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District

•   International Association of Assessing Officers

•   Training Technologies and Support, Inc. 

•   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Workforce Development, Washington, DC

•   Inspector General of the Army, Camp Humphreys, South Korea

 

  Leadership and Team Development Speaking Experience:

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• International Association of Assessing Officers

• American Royal Women's Leadership Series

• Women's Basketball Coaches Association

• Keynote Speaker, Hotel and Lodging Association of Greater Kansas City 

• Kansas State Nutrition and Dietetics Association

• Annual Veterinarians Expo Conference (VMX)

• Garmin International

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Published Author

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Favor's research "The Relationship Between Personality and Coachability in NCAA D1 and D2 Athletes" earned Dissertation of the Year honors in the College of Education at the University of Kansas in 2010. Her research has been published in the Journal of Coaching Education, the International Journal of Sport Science and Coaching, the Journal of Sport Management, and Adult Learning.  She has also written a mental skills workbook for athletes, Developing a Champion's Mindset: Tools to take YOUR Mental Game to the Next Level.

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Academic Credentials

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• Ph.D. in Education, Human Development cognate, University of Kansas 

• M.A. in Counseling & Guidance, Southeast Missouri State University 

• B.S. in Physical Education and English, Culver-Stockton College​

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