The Kardia Group

Diana Kardia has worked with a wide variety of academic units across a range of natural science, engineering, social science, humanities, and medical fields. These consultations and departmental transformation projects may address departmental communication and transparency, departmental climate, mentoring, faculty conflicts, strategic planning, adapting to disciplinary transformations, departmental cohesion, curricular change, and more. Consultations may be motivated by formal processes (such as the need for a strategic planning document), times of crisis or conflict, or simply a low level frustration that the department is not operating at the level that it could.

Diana Kardia is also a skilled workshop leader and presenter with three decades of experience designing and implementing both short-term seminars and in-depth training events. She regularly designs and facilitates faculty retreats and other customized presentations.

Diana is a regular contributor to the following programs:

Strategies Toward Excellent Practices in Departments (STEP) (annual event initiated in 2007)
3-day intensive seminar for faculty teams

Leadership and Integration in Faculty Transitions
2-day intensive seminar for new associate professors

The Provost's Campus Leadership Program at the University of Michigan
Recent Seminars: Setting a Vision and Leading Change (February, 2011); Leading a Change in Direction: Building Consensus and Effecting Real Change (November, 2009)

The Kardia Group also develops customized seminars and resources on a variety of topics, including:

• Promotion to Full: What Does it Mean?
• Leading a Change in Direction: Building Consensus and Effecting Real Change
• mentoring and peer evaluation
• the benefits and challenges of collegiality
• effective meetings
• the role of authority in peer-led environments
• time management
• diversity and dialogue
• bridging the quantitative/qualitative divide

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