Emma Zone, EdD's Linkedin Analytics

Emma Zone, EdD has nearly 25 years of experience teaching, leading, and driving change within and across organizations. She is currently the Senior Director of Academic Affairs at D2L. Previously, Emma was Senior Vice President of Academic Operations & Innovation at Faculty Guild. Emma’s collaboration with higher education institutions empowered faculty communities of practice in embracing evidence-based instructional practices. She has been long committed to discovering, applying, and supporting teaching and learning innovation to impact meaningful change for learners and faculty. During her time as Vice Provost at Colorado Technical University, Emma was responsible for driving cross-functional collaboration to impact student success of nearly 25,000 students. In addition, she has experience leading large-scale courseware implementations. Emma served as the chair of the executive committee for the Courseware in Context framework, and she continues to share in the national conversation on leveraging educational technology in large, complex organizations. Recently, her work has centered on helping organizations redefine their learning strategies across modalities, with an emphasis on access, quality assurance and continuous improvement. Her research interests include organizational leadership topics relating to work engagement, perceived organizational support, faculty support and job satisfaction, and strengths-based leadership. In addition, Emma has teaching experience spanning the secondary, community college, and university levels, and she currently holds a faculty appointment at Abilene Christian University.