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Expert Instructors

UMKC TalentLink enlists expert instructors that include UMKC faculty and leaders in their field. Our instructors provide insight, guidance, and resources to build practical skills in a wide range of subjects – Leadership and Soft Skills, Project Management, Talent Acquisition, Business Operations, Data Analytics, and more. They lead in-person and online courses that are interactive, skills-focused, and designed to help you achieve your professional goals.

Molly Weaver

Talent Acquisition

Molly Weaver is an innovative talent acquisition strategist with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations design and implement candidate-focused experiences that attract top talent. 

Jeff Randolph

Marketing

Jeff Randolph is the EAG Advertising & Marketing Chief Marketing Officer. Randolph has worked in nonprofit roles and agency roles throughout his career, including CMO roles at ARMA International and Camp Fire national headquarters. He teaches marketing at the graduate level, presents on marketing topics nationwide, and talks to entrepreneurs about their businesses on EAG’s Small Business Miracles podcast.

Cory Scheer

Organizational Trust, Workplace Culture, Leadership

Cory Scheer, founder and CEO of TrustCentric Consulting, specializes in building organizational trust, workplace culture, and leadership in organizations. His expertise spans small businesses, large corporations, non-profits, educational bodies, local governments, religious organizations, and the military. His work enhances the reliability of people, practices, and policies, thereby elevating key performance metrics.

Warren Wandling

Business Operations and Leadership

Warren Wandling is an expert facilitator, leadership coach, keynote speaker, and communication expert. He partners with leadership-driven companies and individuals to increase their productivity, clarify their purpose, and improve communication skills.

Jenna Eschenbrenner

Human resources, employee relations, and compliance

Jenna Eschenbrenner simplifies the need-to-know details of how to maintain compliant and efficient human resource practices for organizations who have a small HR team or who are without an onsite HR professional. 

Jeremy Gray

Leadership, Soft Skills

Jeremy Gray is the principal consultant at Noble Consulting. He leads a course on soft skills and workplace readiness for UMKC TalentLink. 

Sam Sapp

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity expert Sam Sapp is the founder of Lockbaud, a technology support firm with a strong emphasis on cutting-edge cybersecurity and exceptional customer experience.

Desiree Bosch

Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management

Congruent Connections founder Desiree Bosch has more than 25 years of experience in program and project management, including experience in industries such as management consulting, mechanical engineering, software engineering, insurance, and construction 

Haley Grayless

Leadership, Workplace Culture

Växa Collective founder Haley Grayless, MSOD, is a leadership coach and workplace culture consultant. She helps committed, open-minded leaders develop or strengthen their management skills and create stronger cultures through leadership development and employee engagement experiences.

Krista Shelton

Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation

Krista Shelton, CFE, is president of Focused Forensic Solutions, a forensic accounting and fraud investigation firm.

Jonathan Jones

Leadership development, Gallup CliftonStrengths®

Certified Gallup CliftonStrengths® coach Jonathan Jones helps others to discover their strengths and leverage them to achieve their goals.

Shannon Swift

Leadership development

Shannon Swift has spent over three decades developing leaders at different levels of experience and responsibility in a variety of corporate environments.