Discover: Centring Care Through Transformation: How Kent State Is Redesigning Culture, Division Structure & Workforce Experience During Major Organizational Change
- Leading DPCB-managed offboarding and internal job transition processes in support of a university-wide academic transformation, including staff reductions and college/department mergers, by designing a care-centered framework focused on clear communication, employee support resources, and compassionate transition experiences.
- Merging the divisions of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Human Resources into a unified People, Culture & Belonging structure using a bell hooks– inspired “margin to center” framework shifting HR away from purely transactional work toward a more relational, transparent, community driven operating model
- Tracking culture change through climate, engagement, wellbeing, and exit survey data, targeting improvements in trust, belonging, and manager effectiveness indicators by feeding data back to leaders, identifying red flag divisions, and designing tailored interventions that move culture from insight to action