Among the thousands of faculty, staff, and students across Pepperdine’s five schools, women leaders—including several of the University’s key decision-makers, renowned scholars in a vast array of disciplines, and aspiring trailblazers—serve as mentors who demonstrate the University’s mission in their daily lives.

Among the thousands of faculty, staff, and students across Pepperdine’s five schools, women leaders—including several of the University’s key decision-makers, renowned scholars in a vast array of disciplines, and aspiring trailblazers—serve as mentors who demonstrate the University’s mission in their daily lives.

“我领导成功的秘诀是能够激励他人。 At the end of the day, it’s not about me.”

珍妮特·科尔（75届，78届法学博士）
副校长兼名誉教授

“My professional and spiritual mentors have had the biggest impact on my leadership over the years. They have inspired me to grow and to lead, and they have sustained me through prayer and encouraging words. Because of their examples, I press on so that I can be a similar role model for the next generation of women leaders.”

斯特拉·埃尔贝斯（91届）
Divisional Dean, Humanities and Teacher Education Division, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, 西维尔大学

“As I work with the rest of the SGA executive board, the secrets to my leadership success are time management, cooperation, communication, patience, and understanding. Working as a team is always the best way to achieve things, especially with multiple people working toward a common goal. My leadership success is attributed to remembering that 我有一个支持我的团队 and shares a common goal with me.”

梅瑞迪斯麦克卡尼
西弗学院学生会主席

“Because we live in a male-dominated society, and because men are more likely to be given leadership roles, 有太多未开发的潜力被忽略了。 As more women and people from all sorts of diverse backgrounds—like first- generation college students and people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, different religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and rural areas of the nation—start to become leaders, we will see more economic and thought growth within our organizations and businesses.”

阿什利·琼斯
法学院黑人法律学生协会主席

“我们可能是自己最糟糕的批评者： stepping back and letting others take the lead, unnecessarily apologizing to move an agenda along, and not speaking up when we see injustice for fear of being labeled difficult or bossy. We must remind ourselves that we not only have a right to sit at the table, but we also have a right to sit at the head of the table.”

谢丽尔柯维
华体会体育行政助理院长

“Beyond the critical importance of diverse perspectives in the holistic decision-making process, the most important reason to place women—or any underrepresented population— in leadership positions is to model the way for those who come after us. Seeing is believing, and 表示很重要。”

卡琳娜哈罗德
佩珀代因大学体育学院副主任

“19岁时，我第一次和公司总裁一起参加董事会。 I was the youngest in the room by probably 20 years and perhaps the only woman in the building, let alone the room. 董事会成员轻蔑地看着我。 I probably didn’t know much in those first days, but I knew I hated that feeling. I remember thinking, ‘No matter how hard I have to work, I am going to make sure you just wildly underestimated the contribution I can make to this organization.’ To this day, I would rather do almost anything than walk into a presentation unprepared. My path forward has been laid by the generous hands of many, supported by even more, and shaped with a good bit of luck. But at every turn, hard work and preparation have carried the day.”

妮可•泰勒（Nicolle Taylor）（1998届，2002届法学博士）
副总裁兼首席商务官