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Thriving Women Leaders in Higher Education

https://www.thrivingwomenleaders.com/

Imagine a safe space to talk about your career, life challenges and aspirations with fellow high-achieving women leaders in Higher Education.

Imagine an intimate cohort of national women that distinctly understand the challenges you face - a group who inspires and supports you to achieve your unique goals to live a meaningful life and career.

Thriving Women Leaders is a virtual executive coaching program specifically designed for successful women leaders in the field of Higher Education.

Rising Women Leaders

This program is designed for high potential women on the rise. Leaders at the Director/Senior Director, Executive Director, and Assistant/Associate Vice President level with an eye towards career growth. We’ll tackle managing and leading, influencing and negotiating, delegating, and giving/receiving feedback – plus communicating up, down, and across the organization, so you can lead with confidence.

Executive Women Leaders

This program consists of high achieving senior women leaders at the Vice President level and above in higher education. Exclusive programming that tackles the scenarios unique to senior women leaders like leading transformational change, leading from the inside out, navigating challenges your male colleagues don’t face, and leading with coaching.

Kim Van Lue, ACC, MBA, Founder Northspring Leadership and Co-Founder Thriving Women Leaders

Kim has lead teams for more than 20 years in a wide variety of environments. She has learned from some incredible mentors who taught her how to gain trust, manage competing priorities, address conflict in healthy, productive ways, make decisions despite insufficient or incomplete information, and motivate others around a common vision. She has experienced firsthand how great leadership can act as rocket fuel propelling everyone on the team to new heights. And, she knows that weak leadership and toxic cultures can be soul-crushing and can drive even the most resilient talent to burnout.

Kim has executive roles in diverse organizations ranging from the VP of Talent Management for a large industrial distributor to the chief HR leader for a non-profit with a large public higher education institution. For two decades, she has partnered with senior leadership teams to deliver strategic HR and talent solutions that enable the business. From being voted employee of the year by her peers at a family-owned software company to receiving multiple CEO Awards as an executive in a Fortune 500 company, Kim has been consistently successful no matter the industry, size, ownership structure or culture.

She has been a culture chameleon who quickly identified the unspoken norms that were key to success in each environment. As a strategic HR leader, she is eager to champion and model the healthy organizational or group norms, and other times, she has worked to shift or alter group norms in ways that more fully aligned with the intended business culture and outcomes.

https://northspringleadership.com/

Chastity Carrigan, Vice President of Development, Texas A&M Foundation

Chastity Carrigan has built her career on her passion for higher education

philanthropy. Currently serving as Vice President for Development with the Texas

A&M Foundation, she has more than 22 years’ experience matching donors’

passions with university’s needs. Ms. Carrigan provides development leadership

for Texas A&M Health (including the School of Medicine, School of Dentistry,

School of Public Health, and the School of Pharmacy), Texas A&M University -

Galveston, the School of Law, the School of Engineering Medicine and the School

of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. Prior to this position, she served

Mays Business School as well as led the development teams at the School of

Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the University of Tennessee

College of Business Administration. Ms. Carrigan, a Lexington, Kentucky native,

earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in Advertising and her

master’s degree in higher education administration from Texas A&M University

but considers herself a Kentucky Wildcat and Texas Aggie at heart.

Personally, Chastity is an avid college sports fan and animal lover. She enjoys

traveling, reading, music, exercising, and celebrating her blessings of the closest

circle of girlfriends and family. She shares her home with her significant other,

Dennis and their 11 year-old Yellow Labrador, Gus.