With more than two decades of experience teaching writing and rhetoric, Liz’s teaching emphasizes rhetorical awareness, audience-centered communication, critical inquiry, and the relationship between language and decision-making. She teaches courses in rhetoric and composition through Penn State World Campus and holds an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in language and literacy instruction.
In addition to her work in higher education, Liz has led teams and developed communication and growth strategies within healthcare and entrepreneurial settings. Her professional background includes leadership in healthcare operations, sales development, marketing strategy, community engagement, and business development, experiences that continue to inform her teaching and writing. Her interdisciplinary work bridges rhetorical theory with lived and organizational experience, particularly in the areas of persuasive communication, leadership, workplace rhetoric, and identity.
Liz is also the creator of The Leadership Compass, a framework that examines persuasion, listening, and decision-making through a rhetorical lens, and the founder of Unfold, a writing and media platform focused on work, reinvention, relationships, wellness, and self-leadership in contemporary life.
Across her teaching, writing, and consulting work, Liz is interested in how people communicate themselves into change — and how rhetoric shapes not only public discourse, but the stories individuals tell about who they are, what they value, and how they move through the world.
Liz is the author of Lead Yourself First: Return to Yourself and Lead from Alignment, Presence, and Truth, a book examining self-leadership, reinvention, and the role communication plays in shaping identity, agency, and personal transformation. The work brings together themes central to her teaching and professional experience, including rhetoric, meaning-making, leadership, wellness, and the stories people construct about themselves in moments of transition and change.
