Written by Mallory Glazier '16
Ninety-five flights that traveled over 100,000 miles covering 25 states and 2 Canadian provinces in just 10 months only begins to describe my incredible fellowship as a Leadership Consultant for Kappa Kappa Gamma. Kappa Kappa Gamma is a women’s international fraternity of over 250,000 members. In its description, a Leadership Consultant is an alumnae member in good standing that is sent by Kappa’s International Organization to provide advice, support and resources to chapters and advisors, working as a link to the Fraternity as a whole. In reality, this opportunity is so much more.
As a Leadership Consultant, I was able to work with thousands of collegiate women and alumnae as a problem-solver, crisis manager and vessel of ideas, while assessing their chapter performance in the areas of chapter standards, operations, finance, risk management, programming, recruitment and philanthropy.
In addition to the weekly meetings I had with chapter executive board members, I met with various Greek Life Officials and University personnel. On a weekly basis I delivered various presentations based on issues identified by the chapter members and their advisors and other advising alumnae. I also prepared evaluations at the end of every week that acknowledged various strengths and gave suggestions on how to improve the various aspects of chapter management.
While the majority of my work was based on communicating and working with collegiate women, I was able to broaden my network and work with various advisors, Province Directors of Chapters (in total there are 40 PDC’s), Regional Directors of Chapters (in total there are 7 RDC’s that oversee the 40 PDC’s), the national Director of Chapters, Director of Standards, Director of Membership and other members of Fraternity Council and Fraternity Headquarters. I also had the opportunity to strengthen my professional network as I found many of the women I worked with around the country had sports-related careers.
Some of the most beneficial things I garnered from my experience as a Leadership Consultant came from the challenging situations I was often put in and the opportunity to develop relationships with members of Kappa’s of all ages.
Much of what I did will perfectly correlate to any sports team, athletic department or league. I was able to see how imperative each chain of a business’ organization is and how the training and follow through of these members help to strengthen any group, at not only at the ground level, but the organizational level as well. Dealing with egos, compliance and financial issues, changing schedules on the fly, as well as understanding the constraints of working within a large group of people, made me more confident that the skills I have acquired will serve me and the Ohio University MBA/MSA program well.
Living out of a suitcase is an adventure to say the least, but one I would not change for anything.
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Class of 2016 Fellowship Summmaries
Mallory Glazier, Kappa Kappa Gamma National Headquarters
Eric Mayer, Ohio Center for Sports Administration
