Linda Meccouri

Linda has offered consulting and training to business, health, K-12, higher education, community and non-profit organizations for over 20 years on topics from “Working with Diverse Groups”, “Appreciative Inquiry”, “Teaching for Diversity and Excellence”, “Universal Design for Learning in STEM”, “Making It: Low Income Student Persistence”, and a variety of technical topics.  She has presented Nationally on “Closing the Digital Divide”.

With over twenty-five years of teaching experience at the community college, undergraduate and graduate level, Linda is the recipient of two Endowed Chairs for Teaching Excellence from two community colleges, and is highly respected for her creative approaches to teaching, learning and student development.

Linda’s inspiring keynotes on “Resilience in Low-income first generation college students”, “Teaching for Excellence in Diverse Classrooms”, “Universal Design”, and other relevant topics are consistently praised as “motivational”, “engaging”, “entertaining” and “transforming” by faculty and administrators.  A dynamic, energetic approach connects with her audiences and appreciatively speaks to the heart of what helps students succeed.  Linda is a scholar, a storyteller, and an entertainer.

Her ongoing research “Making It: Persistence in Higher Education Against the Odds” examines the factors involved in higher education persistence and success for low-income, first generation college students with many of the social indicators associated with failure.   She is also studying teachers/administrators that have made a positive difference. Linda is passionate about student success and teacher/faculty success.

As professor and coordinator of professional development in an urban Community College, her watchword is “Presume Goodwill”, when collaborating with academic and administrative departments.  Working with diverse groups to design and deliver cost-saving, excellent outcomes are the hallmark of her servant leader stance.

Linda is an Appreciative Inquiry facilitator and is enthusiastic about her work with strategic planning, staff development, and leadership using this powerful model of “discovering the positive core of organizations” and moving forward to “planning the preferred future”.

A “playful geek”, Linda has extensive teaching/workshop experience in traditional, accelerated, online, and hybrid formats offering well-designed programs to maximize the success of the student whatever the format.  She has created and facilitated numerous professional development programs designed to integrate technology and computer-mediated communication into the undergraduate and graduate curricula working carefully with a wide range of professionals from tech-savvy to tech-phobic.

What she does best is cultivate the strengths of an organization, walking the visionary path with practical feet and has a reputation for getting things done while maintaining integrity and promoting human dignity.

Linda earned her Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of New Mexico and her Master’s in Organizational Development from Antioch University and is dedicated to creating positive organizations through appreciative and respectful training.

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Specialties

• Appreciative Inquiry
• Creating a Positive Environment for Learning
• Cultural Diversity
• Distance Learning
• Diversity and Motivation
• Educational Technology
• Emcee
• Faculty Training and Development
• Internet
• Keynote Speaker
• Learning-Centered Teaching and Training
• Learning Communities
• Servant Leadership
• Spirit in the Workplace
• Strategic Planning
• Student Success
• Teaching at-risk Students
• Team Learning
• Transformational Leadership