Leading Women Launches Fall Leadership Breakfast Series - "Levers to Advance Your Career" 

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At Leading Women, our programming often centers around the importance of developing strong business acumen, financial acumen and strategic relationships. Therefore, in the spirit of this year's theme, we are inviting our speakers to talk about how they have strategically "pulled levers" in any of these areas to fuel their leadership development and career advancement.

This month's speaker: Dr. Nancy Carriuolo, the ninth president of Rhode Island College  

Nancy has wide-ranging experience in higher education. Before being named president of Rhode Island College in 2008, Nancy  served as the 2007-2008 Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rhode Island College overseeing the management of academic activities and programs for the College, while maintaining her duties as Deputy Commissioner and Chief Academic Officer at the Rhode Island Office of Higher Education (RIOHE). Carriuolo was promoted to the RIOHE post in 2006 where she assisted the Commissioner in the planning and coordinating of academic and student activities for higher education in the state and helped manage the state’s higher education system and the Office of Higher Education. 

Carriuolo has wide-ranging experience in higher education. She served as the director of the Office of School/College Relations at the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and  served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven, where she became a tenured full professor of English in 1987. She also has experience as a junior- and senior-high school teacher and department chair.

Carriuolo is the author of over 30 publications with regional, national, or international audiences.  Carriuolo has worked with a number of regional, national, and international higher education and business organizations as a consultant, is affiliated with several professional associations, and is a past president of the National Association for Developmental Education. Carriuolo is a longstanding member of the board of the Journal of Developmental Education, and she is lead author of the journal’s winter 2007 feature article:  “Advice for Novice Researchers Who Wish to Publish their Results.”  

She was also the founding statewide leader of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Council on Education's network of women leaders in higher education, and is a newly appointed member of the Rhode Island Commission on Women. She also served on the board of New England Dollars for Scholars. ??Carriuolo earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the State College of New York at Brockport and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo; she also attended the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where she completed post-doctoral studies in organizational behavior and management, fundraising, and negotiation.

Her husband Ralf is a native Rhode Islander, who holds an undergraduate degree from Yale and a Ph.D. from Wesleyan University. He is a retired music professor. Their son Matthew is a high school physics teacher.

Agenda
Informal networking/breakfast begins 8am-8:30am
Speaker Program: 8:30am-9:15am
Strategic Networking: 9:15am-9:30am

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