OUR FACILITATORS

Leni Marshall, Ph.D.

Menomonie, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

• LeaderSHIFT
• Inclusive Excellence
• Intercultural Leadership
• Diversity and Equity in K-12 and Higher Ed

PL work

Leni Marshall, Ph.D., has many roles: educator, author, and facilitator. Working with active learning for more than a decade, she leads Personal Leadership events for clients from colleges to summer camps to government organizations. She is experienced at using validated assessment tools in applications of data-driven best practices. Leni is co-founder and a principal consultant with LeaderSHIFTin, facilitating diversity, inclusion, and equity experiences for individuals and groups from Seattle to Bangalore.

Other Work

A diversity, inclusion, and equity solutions leader for more than 20 years, Leni has experience helping companies, K-12 schools, colleges, and universities develop intercultural awareness and generate inclusive change. She has both embodied and academically credentialed experience across differences of age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, socioeconomics, dis/ability, religion, and culture.

She is a founding member of both the European and the North American Network in Aging Studies (ENAS and NANAS), and has held governance positions in international associations in fields from Age Studies to Gerontology to Literature to Women’s Studies. Leni co-founded and chaired the Modern Language Association’s Age Studies Discussion Group, served on the advisory boards of ENAS and NANAS, and has been the Advisory Editor for the Age, Culture, Humanities journal.

Personal Background

Leni comes from a traveling family. When she started college, it was her 13^th school. Having lived from coast to coast in the United States, up and down the economic ladder, and across multiple faith traditions, Leni values the ways in which many kinds of difference enriches a family. Before entering academia, she worked for home health-care agencies, senior care homes, and a managed health-care consulting firm.

Academic

Leni is the Intercultural Development Ambassador and a professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin – Stout. She has a Ph.D. in Literature with minors in Gerontology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her publications include articles on intercultural awareness, age studies, and disability studies in literature and culture. Her most recent book is Age Becomes Us: Bodies and Gender In Time.

Other Interests

Leni’s commitment to multicultural agility comes from her values, awareness, ethics, and beliefs in social justice. In her free time, she roams across a six-acre wooded farm and launches on road trips with her three kids, two dogs, and a cat. She also has a sense of humor!