Susan has been a Co-Facilitator for the Overland Park Rotary Club Foundation’s annual Youth
Leadership Institute for the past four years. Susan is also serving as our YLI Program Coordinator.
Currently, Susan is a fulltime Ph.D. student in Public Administration at the University of Kansas. In addition, she is a Graduate Research Assistant with the Community Outreach Partnership Center at the University of Kansas. Susan is also an adjunct faculty member at Donnelly College teaching Leadership Fundamentals and Organizational Behavior. In addition to those responsibilities, Susan facilitates strategic planning, community trusteeship, community development and team building for businesses and not-for-profits throughout the country.
Prior to that Susan was the Executive Director of Leadership 2000 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, for the past eighteen years. She guided the neighborhood leadership program along with the traditional community leadership program. Her organization was one of 17 leadership groups from throughout the state of Kansas participating in the Kansas Community Leadership Initiative sponsored by the Kansas Health Foundation
Susan’s past leadership accomplishments include chairing the All-America City Steering Committee, which won the coveted All-America City Award for Kansas City, Kansas/Wyandotte County in 1992. She was founding chairman of the Community Foundation of Wyandotte County. Susan has been chairman of United Way of Wyandotte County, the Wyandotte County Citizen’s Planning Committee, and the Kansas Leadership Forum. Currently, Susan is chairman of Kansas City Consensus. For the past 19 years, Susan’s favorite community activity has been volunteering at Franklin Center Coffee Shop.
Susan is a graduate of Leadership 2000 and Leadership Kansas. She has won the Preceptor Award and the Distinguished Leader Award from the Community Leadership Association. Susan is a Kansas Jayhawk through and through, having received her B.A. and M.P.A. degrees from the University of Kansas.
"I thought YLI was going to be worse than camp, but it was the
best week of my summer." .........................................................
“I will definitely recommend YLI to a friend.”
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“I made new friends and loved working with students from different schools in K.C.”
Susan has been a Co-Facilitator for the Overland Park Rotary Club Foundation’s annual Youth
Leadership Institute for the past four years. Susan is also serving as our YLI Program Coordinator.
