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    Professor Tolliver's Teaching Bio

    Lisa Tolliver (AB Harvard, MBA+post-grad Columbia) is a Principal at professional services firm 360 MERIDIAN. She's also a NYSED-licensed professional trainer, university professor and teaching artist. She's taught on these faculties: CUNY Hunter's Graduate Programs in Urban Affairs & Planning, Grace Institute, Keller Graduate School of Management, Metropolitan College of NY School for Business, NYC Business Solutions, SUNY Nassau Community College (LL/CE) and many test-prep, train-the-trainer, and public- and private-sector entities.

    In addition to coaching and educating, Professor Tolliver develops, delivers and assesses academic and training programs and helps client organizations analyze and assess needs, research stakeholder opinions, plan strategy, resolve problems and conflicts, and achieve aggressive goals. She also hosts business and public affairs radio programs, lectures internationally and serves on several organizational and editorial boards. Her doctoral research investigates correlates of effective leadership.

    Professor Tolliver formerly worked as a management consultant and general manager at multinational firms. Her publications portfolio includes two telecom industry guidebooks; many professional and literary publications, regulatory filings, educational materials, performance art, digital properties, and multimedia contributions to prominent ethnographic initiatives (e.g., "Tradition Runs Through It: Environment and Recreation in Provo County," an exhibit and archive co-sponsored by the Library of Congress, Brigham Young University and the Utah Heritage Project).

    Professor Tolliver's sample honorable distinctions include appointment as a National Poetry Month Ambassador; an Emmis Communications (98.7 KISS FM) Phenomenal Woman Award; selection for Ford Foundation and Columbia Journalism School programs for media gatekeepers and outstanding journalists; honorable recognition as an entrepreneur and business advisor by SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business, Business Owners Idea Cafe, the MTA-PriceWaterhouseCoopers PREP Program for government contracting, the SBA, Marquis Who's Who, IAWD Who's Who on the Web, Turner Construction and the National Association of Minority Contractors. She's also been recognized as an outstanding educator by Marquis Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and the U.S. Association for Small Business & Enterprise.

    Links:

    bullet   90-Day Plan For Building a Motivational Coaching Practice
     
    bullet   ACT Test Preparation
     
    bullet   Acuity Assessment Tool by CTB/McGraw-Hill Digital Learning
     
    bullet   Applied Managerial Statistics: GM533
     
    bullet   Building Professional Relationships: FLD 120 PCA
     
    bullet   Business Planning Basics
     
    bullet   Business Policy/Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management : MGT 480 VAL
     
    bullet   Developing a Business Plan: FLD 480 PCA
     
    bullet   Developing a Marketing Plan: FLD 470 PCA
     
    bullet   Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
     
    bullet   Faculty Development: Developing Master Teacher Skills
     
    bullet   Financial Literacy Certification Progam
     
    bullet   Foundations of Managerial Mathematics: GM400
     
    bullet   GED Test Preparation
     
    bullet   Harnessing the Power of Computers and the World Wide Web
     
    bullet   How to Write a Business Plan
     
    bullet   Introduction to Mass Communications and Media Ethics: COM 350 VAL
     
    bullet   Managerial Decision-Making: GM530 and GM533
     
    bullet   Managerial Statistics: MTH 350 SKI
     
    bullet   Managing Conflict in the Workplace: GM570
     
    bullet   Managing Information and Communications Constructive Action: FLD 350 PCA
     
    bullet   Mastering Marketing
     
    bullet   Office Procedures and Practices
     
    bullet   Quantitative Analysis for Business: MIS 120 SKI
     
    bullet   QuickBooks
     
    bullet   QuickBooks I - Introduction to QuickBooks: CED 1087
     
    bullet   QuickBooks II: CED 1095
     
    bullet   QuickBooks III - QuickBooks Special Features: CED 1096
     
    bullet   SAT and PSAT/NMSQT Test Preparation
     
    bullet   Social and Organizational Psychology: PSY 240 SEL
     
    bullet   Some Useful Links for All Educators
     
    bullet   Some Useful Links for All Students
     
    bullet   Telling Community Stories: Oral History and Cultural Documentation
     
    bullet   The Power of Podcasting for Performers, Artists, Talk Radio Hosts, and Entrepreneurs
     
    bullet   Tolliver's Publications, Broadcasts and Presentations
     
    bullet   Urban Development Workshop I: URBG 790
     
    bullet   Working in Groups: FLD 230 PCA
     
    bullet   You've Got a Face For Radio!
     

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