Marilee Bresciani Ludvik

serves as chair and professor of the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department at the University of Texas Arlington. Prior to that, she served as professor of postsecondary educationalleadership at San Diego State University, Assistant Vice President of Institutional Assessment at Texas A&M Universityand in a variety of student affairs, academic affairs, and alumni relations leadership roles at various types of institutions. Bresciani Ludvik also served as a Faculty Fellow within the Office of Curriculum, Assessment, and Accreditation as well as the Office of Analytic Studies and Institutional Research at San Diego State where she assisted in connecting student learning and development outcomes to equity performance indicators in a manner that can inform improvements in in-class, out-of-class, and program design and delivery. Marilee has written 12 books, published over 200 scholarly articles, and empowered over 200 institutions and theirleaders on organizational learning assessment and accountability decision-making processes. In addition, Marilee assistsorganizational leaders identify and leverage opportunities to collaborate across division lines, using mindfulness-basedinquiry practices, nonviolent communication, difficult conversation practices, paradigm busting processes, compassionpractices, restorative justice, and design thinking. Furthermore, Marilee is a certified meditation and yoga instructor, certified Search Inside Yourself Leadership Instituteteacher (the program developed at Google), and a Qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher on thecertification path. Marilee is also a certified transformational life coach who uses the evocative method. Marilee’sresearch focuses on using translational neuroscience and mindful compassion practices to inform the design andevaluation of workshops, curriculum, and coaching practices to decrease students’, faculty, and administrators’ stress andanxiety while also increasing their attention and emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, and enhancing compassion towards self and other, inquiry, creativity, overall well-being, and career readiness. Dr. Bresciani Ludvik’s work has been honored with awards such as the International Association for Student Personnel Pillar of the Profession Award in 2012, the International Association for Student Personnel George Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature/Research in Higher Education in 2013, the American College Personnel Administrators Diamond Honoree in 2016, the UNESCO/MGIEP Senior Research Fellow in 2017, and the International Association for Student Personnel Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member in 2019. Marilee is thrilled that she gets to empower educators, staff, administrators, and student leaders to get in touch with their passions so they can positively transform their lives and the lives of those they serve!