OCL Student Ambassadors

Sally Stephenson

Undergraduate: Bachelor of Science, Nazareth College, Kalamazoo MI, 1991
Graduate: Master of Arts, Organizational Change Leadership, Western Michigan University, 2020
Career Interest: Food Safety, Quality Control & Quality Assurance
Career Industry: Ingredient Manufacturing, Food Manufacturing, Quality Systems

About Me: I am the Senior Manager of QA/QC at an ingredient manufacturing company in Kalamazoo. In leading a team of twenty, and working cross-functionally in Kalamazoo and across the globe, the OCL program has helped me gain tangible results in the areas of team building, mentoring, coaching, strategic planning, and change consulting across my organization. With my Master of Arts in OCL, in addition the tremendous personal growth I have achieved, I am now positioned to grow professionally.

Charles C. Golden

Undergraduate: Business Administration: Management, Western Michigan University, 2006 & Bachelor of Arts: Africana Studies, Western Michigan University, 2009
Graduate: Master of Arts, Organizational Change Leadership, WMU, 2021
Career Interest: Organizational Development, Leader Development, Consulting, Culture Transformation, Performance and Talent Management
Career Industry: Health Care

About Me: Currently, I manage a HR Service Center for Spectrum Health Human Resources. Spectrum Health is an integrated West Michigan health system with over 30,000 team members. Prior roles and responsibilities include, Senior HR partner supporting our Post-Acute Services with change management, talent management, strategic initiatives for improving retention as well as transforming services and delivery of services. Senior Organizational Development Specialist, working with a small team of internal consultants with responsibility for our performance management practices and evolution of that practice as well as leading talent management and succession planning efforts with entities within the organization.

I am also certified facilitator of Cultural Intelligence and Unconscious Bias through the Cultural Intelligence Center. Additionally, I am a former facilitator of a cultural transformation program adopted by Spectrum Health a few years ago.

The MAOCL program has provided foundational knowledge in leading change and consulting at individual, team, and organizational levels. This program has also provided relevant experiences for navigating project management and consulting through the capstone seminar which gives students the opportunity to pull together theory in individual, team and organizational psychology and change with real research projects to finish off the program. The coursework and experiences I gained at WMU while pursuing my MAOCL degree were instrumental to my achievements and contributions at Spectrum Health.

Asa Davis

Undergraduate: Business Administration: Finance, Western Michigan University
Graduate: Master of Arts, Organizational Change Leadership, Western Michigan University
Career Interest: Helping organizations achieve more through employee engagement and process improvement
Career Industry: Worked in finance industry for over 15 years

Juliana Espinosa

Undergraduate: Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduate: Master of Arts, Organizational Change Leadership, Western Michigan University | Library and Information Science, San Jose State University
Career Interest:Education
Career Industry:Higher Education

About Me: Juliana Espinosa is from Los Angeles and has lived in Boston, New York, Salt Lake City, and Santa Barbara, CA. She now lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan where she serves as the User Engagement Librarian at the Western Michigan University Libraries. Western Michigan University’s organizational change leadership program provided the opportunity to develop critical skills in leading effective change, develop individuals, groups, and organizations, as well as serve as a research-based practitioner in your current and future organizations.