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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 such faculties as: CUNY Hunter's Graduate Programs in Urban Affairs & Planning, Grace Institute, Keller Graduate School of Management, MCNY School for Business, NYC Business Services, SUNY Nassau Community College (LL/CE) and at 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, BYU and the Utah Heritage Project).

Professor Tolliver is well-versed in distance learning and multiple Learning Management Systems. Examples of her honorable distinctions include appointment as a National Poetry Month Ambassador; an Emmis Communications 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, Business Owners Idea Cafe, MTA-PriceWaterhouseCoopers' PREP Program for government contracting, SBA, Marquis Who's Who, 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.