Modeling Inclusive Leadership With Nebraska’s Marquita Armstead & Purdue’s Tiffini Grimes

Summary

• - What does an event like NACDA do in terms of career development for you?
• - Why is your current role the right fit for you at this time in your career? Is the role what you expected it to be?
• - You're both replacing administrators who had been in the role for a long time; how difficult is that coming into the job? How difficult is it to put your own stamp on the role and department?
• - How do you balance the responsibility of being an SWA with all your other duties?
• - You mentioned family; how difficult is it to balance a personal life with the duties that come with a senior leadership role?
• - Marquita, how has working for a new AD changed the role you're in?
• - Tiffini, your AD Mike Bobinski has been in the role for a long time and is already a veteran AD; how does that impact your role?
• - How do you sum up that leadership style?
• - How do you foster and encourage diversity within your department, among the culture created by your school's head coaches?
• - How do you support your department and your AD through head coach searches, especially when they're not for a high profile sport?
• - How does your compliance background inform your current job? How has it helped given the moment we're in for college athletics?
• - Is it more difficult now to maintain those relationships with student-athletes given the transfer portal?
• - Do you also have to think about NIL in all these decisions that you're making?
• - Tiffini, how has your past experience at the national office impacted the way you've navigated changes related to NIL?
• - Marquita, how does your compliance background give you a greater understanding of the work you do in your current role?