Live Seminar
Discover your teaching potential and enhance your classroom management, course planning, and student engagement skills. This interactive, five-day program focuses on practical strategies for developing effective course syllabi, creating active learning environments, and applying assessment techniques that promote student success.
Learning Objectives
- Gain insight into planning, organizing, and delivering courses.
- Experience firsthand, how to develop a course syllabus and learning measures.
- Develop classroom management techniques and teaching skills.
- Engage and inspire today’s diverse learners toward intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and professional excellence.
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Who Should Attend
Those looking to sharpen or refresh their teaching skills, gain new teaching insights, or further develop their pedagogy.
Facilitators
Susan Mason, M.A., M.S., is the founder and principal of Vital Visions Consultants where she acts as consultant, researcher, instructional designer, coach, master trainer, and subject matter expert to executives and organizations looking to develop theory-in-practice adult learning strategies, professional development programs, and corporate universities. Additionally, Susan has had a long career in higher education beginning with her role as a research associate at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, chairing the Liberal Arts and Humanities curriculum at Tompkins-Cortland Community College-SUNY, and continuing as Hamilton College’s founding director and faculty member in the Education Studies Program, NYS Teacher Certification Program, and Oral Communication Center and Program. She has been the recipient of a variety of excellence in teaching awards, administrative service recognitions, and academic grants.
Haywood Spangler, Ph.D. is the founder and principal of Work & Think, LLC. He is a corporate consultant, a researcher, and an author, and was an instructor of business ethics at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce. His Spangler Ethical Reasoning Assessment® (SERA®) and Innovation Inventory™ (II™) are used across industries and around the world. He is the author of Reasoning for Business: The Inquirer’s Guide to Decision Making (Routledge, 2026).
In addition to his teaching experience, Haywood has consulted with numerous organizations, including Morgan Stanley, The National Institutes of Health, and The United Nations Pan American Health Organization.
As an independent researcher, Haywood has authored popular and academic articles on topics including ESG's implications for businesses, gaps in senior leaders' approaches to developing strategy, and post-pandemic uncertainty tolerance among professionals. He has collaborated with academic colleagues to conduct research, using the SERA, at institutions such as Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School and Christ University Business School, Bangalore, India.
Haywood holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and an M.Div., magna cum laude, from Yale University.
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