what they're saying
“I met Sally in the Dual Career Office a little more than one year ago during a campus visit to the University of Michigan. I came out of my first meeting with her with the firm conviction that she is a woman who keeps her word. She struck me as a hard worker, trust-worthy, reliable, and highly dedicated to her job. My intuitions about her proved right, as when I was hired at U-M, Sally was truly instrumental in helping my husband negotiate with his new employer. She made the bureaucratic process much easier on us and her professionalism and competence made a huge difference in the transition. We would not have been able to achieve so much in so little time without her. I highly recommend her with absolutely no reservation. She delivers, you can count on her. ”
Marlyse Baptista
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Sally Schmall
Career Coach, Organizational Consultant and Trainer
Before founding Academy Coaching located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sally worked for 14 years within higher education as a faculty career counselor providing career coaching and professional leadership development workshops for doctoral students, faculty and senior academic administrators at the University of Michigan. Sally specialized in leadership development and negotiation skill building with women pursuing faculty careers in science, engineering and medicine.
Throughout the last three years of her career at Michigan she served as the Director of the Academic Dual Career Recruitment and Retention program for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A) working closely with academic dual career couples from across the world to ensure that their academic job offer(s) met their dual career needs.
As founder of Academy Coaching, Sally provides confidential career coaching and professional development workshops in higher education, academic medicine and industry. An experienced career coach, organizational consultant and national speaker, Sally is particularly skilled in coaching individuals during career transitions and routinely speaks on how to conduct successful academic and nonacademic job searches and strategic negotiations for audiences across the country.
Recommended Reading:
The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership
Authors: Kouzes/Posner
The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership illustrates how you can develop the key leadership skills needed "to get extraordinary things done" on your campus. This book outlines the principles and practices of leadership in the Academy and provides actual case examples of college and university administartors who demonstrate practices in their everyday leadership.