About DeVryWorks

We Challenge Your Team Through Skill Development

With the competition to attract and retain a strong, diverse workforce increasing, we know one way to distinguish yourself is through an emphasis on continual development and learning. Our DeVryWorks team listens to help pinpoint where your team’s gaps are and how we might work together to provide solutions to close those gaps.

Our consultative approach is designed to help guide your talent succession plan and then support that plan through consistent check-ins and reporting.  Our faculty of professors create skill-building frameworks that can mirror what your team might be tackling on the job or in a future role, and our courses are developed with the needs of organizations, departments and industries in mind.

Meet Our Team

Looking for a partner who truly understands your skill development needs and can provide the solutions to back it up shouldn’t be a challenge. Our team of DeVryWorks consultants and DeVry University faculty working together is what sets us apart and helps create unmatched value for our clients. Together we strive to bring real-world expertise to your team — and we use experiential learning coursework to back it up.

We take pride in providing top-tier education, work-readiness programs and personalized support. Do you have a partner who can do that? Learn more.

Meet our team of forward thinkers, solutions consultants and leader makers:

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DeVryWorks Team

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Elise Awwad
President and CEO, DeVry University

Elise Awwad is the president and CEO of DeVry University. She leads DeVryWORKS, admissions, student central, student care training, career services and strategic enrollment operations.

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Scarlett Howery
Scarlett Howery
Vice President, Public Workforce Solutions, DeVry University

As the Vice President of Public Workforce Solutions at DeVry University, Scarlett Howery leads the strategic development and implementation of innovative programs and partnerships that bridge the gap between education and employment for adult learners.

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Clark Barber
Vice President, DeVryWorks

As organizations accelerate digitalization efforts, employees across every function and level must evolve. Clark Barber works alongside his team to help organizations align the right talent with relevant learning pathways to reskill for the future of work.

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Cody Green
Sr. Director, Business Development

Cody Green is an experienced commercial leader with a strong record of driving performance by focusing on people development and process excellence. As senior director of business development, he supports the DeVryWorks team's efforts in maximizing outcomes for organizations looking to align the right talent with relevant learning pathways to reskill for the future of work.

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Jenna McCoy
Director of Sales Enablement, DeVryWorks

Jenna McCoy provides strategic leadership over the DeVryWorks commercial partnership process, upskilling of the DeVryWorks strategic account management team and supports sales technology innovation. In addition, she leads development of the customer buying journey by collaborating with product, marketing, sales and service to evolve the corporate partnership process based on partner needs.

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Eric Hellige
Director of Career Services

As the director of career services at DeVry University, Eric Hellige has a passion for helping job-seekers succeed in their career goals. Through his 15+ years of experience within career coaching, recruitment and human resources, he focuses on making career development accessible, understandable and actionable for all levels of learners. 

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Kathaleen Emery
Manager of Employer Relations & Internships

Kathaleen Emery is a high energy and collaborative business professional with more than 20 years' of experience in higher education and recruiting. She excels at building relationships with job seekers and employer/community partners and uses creativity to be successful in an ever-changing economic climate.

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Michelle Petruska
Corporate Partnership Director

Michelle Petruska, director of partner engagement at DeVryWorks, and her account management team help corporate partners attract, retain and grow talent from within by aligning employees with DeVry’s education pathways to build skills essential for current and future work.

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Alexandra Kaleel
Director, Client Solutions

Alexandra Kaleel is a highly accomplished professional with over a decade of leadership experience at DeVry University. Over her 16-year tenure with the organization, Alexandra has shown a deep commitment to excellence and played a pivotal role in driving its success. 

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Daisha Hankle
Assistant Director of Workforce Learning Solutions, DeVryWorks

Daisha Hankle was born to be a coach. She lives each day by the motto, by Jimmy Johnson: “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is a little EXTRA.” She is a dynamic and energetic webinar facilitator who has spent 15 years honing her training and motivation skills on the sidelines of the basketball court to currently leading DeVry University’s corporate virtual workshop program.

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Kelly Lamb
Sr. Operations Manager

Kelly Lamb is the Senior Operations Manager, overseeing and operationalizing the scholars programs and workforce partnerships, focusing on internal operations to successfully launch and manage strategic programs and client partnerships. Lamb works closely with all internal departments to support and design processes that elevate DeVry’s scholars programs and workforce partnerships. 

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Rachel Dokter
Sr. Operations Specialist

Rachel Dokter is a Senior Operations Specialist at DeVry University.  She plays an active role in DeVry’s scholars programs, including direct interaction with scholars in their courses, data analysis for operations and developing program enhancements.  

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Amir Ghaemi
Corporate Partnership Director, DeVryWorks

With over a decade of experience at DeVry University, Amir Ghaemi, Corporate Partnership Director with DeVryWorks, has established a strong foundation in admissions and leadership. Amir brings a wealth of expertise and a commitment to enhancing student success through thoughtful and intentional relationships with our corporate education partners.

 

 

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Veronica Calderon
Chief Inclusion, Belonging and Equity Officer

Veronica Calderon is the chief inclusion, belonging and diversity officer at DeVry University. Among her responsibilities, Calderon leads the implementation of the long-term vision and goals of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University, including building new diversity, equity and inclusion programs and training for students, faculty and colleagues, and oversee its employee resource groups (ERGs).

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Fred Kwong
VP, Chief Information Security Officer

Dr. Fred Kwong has been in the information security and technology field for the past 20 years working in the education, financial, telecommunication, healthcare, and insurance sectors. He is an award-winning thought leader in security and currently works at DeVry University where he serves as the VP and chief information security officer. He is a member of several advisory boards and is a frequent speaker at national security forums on cyber security and information technology.

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William Phillips
Dean of the Colleges of Engineering & Information Sciences and Media Arts & Technology, DeVry University

William Phillips, Ph.D., became dean of the Colleges of Engineering & Information Sciences and Media Arts & Technology at DeVry University in March of 2019. Prior to his appointment as dean of these Colleges, he was an associate dean overseeing programs in the College of Engineering & Information Sciences for more than 10 years.

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Lenore Goldberg
National Dean of the Colleges of Business and General Education and Curriculum, DeVry University

Lenore Goldberg has been with DeVry University since 2010 and serves as the national dean of colleges and curriculum. As national dean, she is responsible for overseeing course and program development, assessment, and programmatic accreditation for the business and general education curriculum.

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Dr. Issam Abu-Ghallous
Associate Professor of Economics, DeVry University

Dr. Issam Abu-Ghallous earned a BA in Business Administration from Bethlehem University in Palestine, an MBA from Lewis University, and a Ph.D. in International Economic Development from the University of Southern Mississippi. Issam joined DeVry University in 2015 and is currently teaching and designing economics and international relations courses.

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Dr. Luan Eshtrefi
Associate Professor of Business and Economics, DeVry University

Dr. Luan Eshtrefi has two decades experience in higher education, mainly teaching abroad. He teaches business economics and international business at the Keller Graduate School of Management and has research interests in the fields of regional integration economics, entrepreneurship and international business.

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Alex Hosch
Associate Professor, DeVry University and Keller Graduate School of Management

Alex Hosch has been teaching for the University since 2009 and he is also a Keller Graduate School of Management alumnus. He worked in the financial services, legal practice management, and software development industries for more than 25 years, and has successfully managed information technology, information systems, product development, and operational projects for various corporations and institutions.

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Sid Ahmed Sahnoun
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Business Intelligence and Analytics Management

Sid Ahmed Sahnoune is an associate professor of business intelligence and analytics management at DeVry University. He has a Ph.D. in economics and applied statistics, with more than 8 years of teaching business and data analytics. His research interests are predictive analytics, volatility modeling and quantitative finance.

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