Director:
Dr. Martin provides leadership for the Office of Learning and Organizational Development and serves as director of county operations for UGA Extension.
Faculty and Postdoctoral Associates:
Dr. Farner assesses training needs of Extension Agents and Specialists and leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive on-boarding and professional development program to build content knowledge and process skills. She is also an adjunct faculty member in ALEC.
- On-boarding processes and materials
- Professional development trainings
- Scholarship support
- Extension Training System (ETS)
- Employee Graduate Education Support
- Organizational Change
- Employee Mentoring
- Facilitating Adult Learning
Dr. Griffeth coordinates internal and external leadership programs for Cooperative Extension.
- Extension Academy & ExTEND
- Advancing Georgia's Leaders in Agriculture and Forestry (AGL)
- Offer training and tools for Extension faculty
Dr. Hurt develops, implements, and support a formal program development process to include needs assessment, logic model development, individual faculty, county and departmental plans of work, and organizational strategic program planning.
- GA Counts
- Activity Reports
- Logic Model Development
- Plans of Work
- Program Planning
- Extension Leadership System (ELS) for county programs
- Impact Statements
- Needs Assessment
Dr. Sapp develops, coordinates, and facilitates two national leadership development programs for faculty. She supports system-wide employee engagement efforts and supports extension professionals through additional leadership and professional development opportunities.
- LEAD21 Program Director
- IAspire Leadership Academy
- Extension Employee Engagement Lead
- Extension Issue Teams
- Co-facilitator of Extension Academy
- Extension Leadership and Professional Development
Dr. Argabright provides support for the national leadership development programs for faculty. She supports system-wide employee engagement efforts and supports extension professionals through providing additional leadership and professional development opportunities.
- LEAD21
- IAspire Leadership Academy
- Employee Engagement Support
- Extension Leadership and Professional Development
Maria coordinates employee recruitment and the Extension Internship program and helps facilitate Extension issue teams and priority projects. She also coordinates all communications-related training.
- Employee recruitment
- Extension Internship Program
- Communications training
- Issue team
