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Dr. Rodenbaugh is president of HANDLEY Group, a consulting firm focused on collaborative leadership development and team dynamics. Early in her career, she served as the director of two clinical laboratories and the President of Lifecodes, a DNA identity company and a subsidy of Quantum Chemicals. She also held executive marketing positions with three divisions of Johnson & Johnson, leading the introduction of two successful products. She later founded a database marketing company providing strategic planning for Fortune 100 clients.

Dr. Rodenbaugh believes that technical expertise and strategic thinking are not enough to lead in today’s business environment—that the exigencies so strongly associated with effective leadership have no power without emotional intelligence. She feels that too often emotional intelligence in organizational life is seen as a minefield to be avoided at all costs. With that in mind, Dr. Rodenbaugh now focuses her work with clients, students, and community groups in understanding how the weaving of emotionally based relationships can have a profound influence on the bottom line. She recently co-authored “Team Mirroring: Illusions and Realities of Team Dynamics and Development.”

With a personal mission of lifelong learning, Dr. Rodenbaugh earned a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences from Walden University in 2002. From a class of over 100 students, she received the Harold Hodgkinson Award bestowed upon the graduate whose dissertation is judged to meet the highest university standards of academic excellence. Her research focused on the effectiveness of experiential learning in an executive training program. Dr. Rodenbaugh shares and understands the adult student experience; she also earned an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1984, while juggling classes, work, and a family with two teenagers—the daunting task so familiar to today’s Wescoe School graduates. She also earned a B.S. in Medical Technology from Colby Sawyer College.

Dr. Rodenbaugh is a familiar face at the Wescoe School as an instructor in Marketing, Business Ethics, Leadership and Team Dynamics. She also facilitates a Leadership Dynamics Program at Syracuse University. The program is a novel approach to leadership that reflects the new ways in which we live, work and learn—a whole system of relationships in order to get things done.

Along with these diverse academic and career achievements, Dr. Rodenbaugh is a private pilot, world traveler, involved in several community projects as well as the support of projects in South Africa. She and her husband, Bob, live in Doylestown, PA and have two adult children.

Rosemary Powers Kanester of Allentown, will be this year’s student speaker.