Stephen Kemp

I am the Assistant Director for Organizational Consulting in the Strategic Project Management Office (SPMO) at the University of Illinois. My service provides group facilitation to help departments and teams at the university make decisions that turn into real action and change, all with the aim of improving their operational capabilities and efficiencies.

I have been an employee of the University for over 20 years, and the vast majority of my time has been spent either in management or leadership roles. I am proof positive that what you learn in MGRdev are not talents that you are born with but rather skills that you learn, refine, and perfect via intentional practice over time.

My professional passion resides in facilitation, coaching, and instruction. I absolutely love opportunities to help teams and individuals work through their challenges, find solutions under their own power, and determine proper strategies to improve. My reward comes in the form of seeing the light bulbs turn on brightly when someone reaches a conclusion on a difficult issue all on their own- and all I had to do was to ask the right questions. By teaching these skills and passing along lessons learned my hope is to show managers that, with a little preparation and the right tools in hand, they can enable their teams to be far more effective than they ever thought possible.