Discovery

Discovery is where innovation begins | This space highlights emerging ideas, perspectives, and commentary on professional growth, leadership, and organizational learning. Here you’ll find early concepts, exploratory models, and reflections that inform future research, programs, and practice.

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Why I Built Saunders Professional Development

Professional development is everywhere. Workshops, certifications, leadership programs, training modules, conferences, and online courses all promise growth. Organizations invest significant time and resources into helping people advance. Yet many professionals reach a point in their careers where growth slows, stalls, or feels misaligned with what they actually need. I built Saunders Professional Development (SPD) in response to that gap. Across years of working in higher ed