A seasoned, senior educator with over 40 years of academic and professional expertise, working in both management and faculty roles, as well as community based education, supporting varied disciplines and age groups.  My early career at Cornell University included directing the development Study Abroad in Rome, Italy, for Architecture, Art & City Planning students, expanding their understanding of interrelated disciplines but also within the contexts of culture and history.  In addition I worked on various collaborative leadership projects, including organizational systems analysis for new technologies, and developing mentoring programs for staff.  

The increasing reality of change in education and professions due to increasing impacts of technology in the 1990's, motivated my ongoing study and professional work with focus on adult learning and changing constructs for student support. At University of Maryland, UMGC I developed cooperative education programs for working professionals and military students  across 27 discipline areas,  bridging workplace learning to programs using hybrid teaching technologies. At Smith School of Business, I similarly supported over 1000 students who were professionals at 4 campuses including washington DC, as an Executive and Academic Coach as these pursued MBA's, to make career transitions in Government, Business, Non-Profit, and Education Sectors.  With expanding concern for issues in Sustainability as well as changing needs in professional education, I joined World Learning's Leadership Program in Washington DC, as part time faculty and executive coach to support students of varied countries, focused on Sustainable Development, Management and Policy.  Students worked in varied international organizations to study issues and develop "sustainable solutions".  To support their interests in building partnerships in the USA, we hosted a Sustainable Solutions Series of speakers, workshops and networking events, with focus on United Nations SDGs.  

My consistent theme throughout these varied programs,  has been the essential importance of experiential learning, especially with increasing use of hybridized technologies,  to support students in varied types of integrated workplace roles, community projects and international internships. These experiences build skills,  bridge curriculum to careers and leadership as students discover and activate their unique talents, realize their own agency to contribute in communities and organizations, cultivate mentors and navigate changes in their lives but also may bring innovation that expand impact.  

A key focus throughout my educational efforts is emphasis on "thinking globally, acting locally", to understand how economic, environment and equity issues intersect, while local communities develop solutions through "ground-up" creative collaboration.  A course for next generation careers was developed in 2020 with workbook, to provide a 4-phase process to support students and faculty as we must educate for changing world and dynamics of  "career ecology".  Defining focused talents, and matching to purposeful mission begins the process, that follows; Clarify, Communicate, Collaborate, Create....Solutions that may build individual skills, but also contribute to collective and mutual benefits.  https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000075471390/Phyllis-Pouyat-Thibodeau-CareerEcologia-Workbook.  

Consistent with this, in my "encore" after retirement, I joined the education team at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum located in St. Michaels, Maryland.  Here we teach students K-College and beyond, intersecting issues of chesapeake ecosystems, cultural history, economics of the seafood industry, while cultivating community among many visitors, as well as student programs.  Our Changing Chesapeake calls us to appreciate and bring forward our history, but also to prepare our next generation as creative solutions innovators for the future.