“I was a kid of the four P’s: public school, public libraries, public parks and public safety net programs,” says Nicole R. Robinson (BUS ’92, MBA '00), a proud Chicago South Sider and the CEO of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago. From the time that she was a...
Lessons from Building a Workplace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program
With our role as a strong corporate citizen, we want to be able to support our partners in doing their best work to the extent that we can." – Corliss Garner (BUS ’06) Seven years ago, Corliss Garner (BUS ’96) returned to DePaul to address a group of high school...
Food Bank Executive Offers Crisis Leadership Advice
We're trying to obtain a variety of foods, but at the same time we're also trying to make sure we're continuously getting food out into the communities especially those that have been direly affected by the crisis. — Sheila Creghin (MBA ’84, JD ’89) "If I’d had a...
A Leadership Guide for Working Parents
Alyssa Westring has been researching work-life balance for 18 years, since before she became a parent. Now an associate professor of management in the Driehaus College of Business and a mother of two, Westring thinks a lot about the advice her mother gave her when she...
Getting to the C-Suite: How Sponsorship Can Propel Your Career in Ways that Mentorship Can’t
“Sponsorship and mentorship are often used interchangeably, but they are two different things,” says Stephanie Smith (DBA ’19), vice president and chief human resources officer at DePaul. Making the distinction between the two is a big part of Smith’s recently...
Professor Shares Out-of-This-World Advice for Leadership
Like NASA, the business world operates in team-based environments. Whether these business-team environments are competitive, volatile or uncertain, they share many similarities with space crews." Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise was mostly a good leader,...





