$hape Your Finances: Education in the Days of COVID19 w/Dr. Sonya Cole

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The Lionel SHIPman $HAPE YOUR FINANCES Show is a financial and life empowerment show focusing on our lives around money and finances. The show aims to educate and motivate people to improve their financial outlooks and empower them to take charge of their lives and to live life to the fullest. Guest: Dr. Sonya Cole Assist Professor of Management/Director of the Mitchell College of Business’ Professional Readiness Engagement Program (PREP) at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL. Her program is a student-support initiative that facilitates the delivery of quality experiential activities and advanced educational opportunities. Clark earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership, Policy & Law from Alabama State University; Master’s degrees in Applied Management and Human Resources Management from Troy University; Bachelor of Arts in Communications. Dr. Cole considers herself among a new crop of “pracademics,” entrepreneurial-minded professionals from the business world who also serve in academic capacities. Management career spans over 15 years; 10 years in higher education. Teaching experience includes Professional Communication, Organizational Communication, Small Group Communication, and Performance Studies, as well as professional development and career preparedness courses in an AACSB accredited business college. She also continues to serve as a management consultant. Cole recently wrote a textbook Professionally Ready for Kendall-Hunt publishers. Her research focuses on leadership, training and mentoring, and has appeared in American Society for Training and Development, NCPEA Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, and includes a chapter in The Sage Handbook of Mentoring & Coaching in Education.