Public Speaking Guest Series 2

William Doll

Bill Doll & Company

ill Doll is the author of the primer SPEAK, How to Talk to Classmates and Others, which was developed for SAGES and has now been published by Oxford University Press. He is a lawyer with a doctorate in sociology and a former theater critic for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Bill heads his own communications and research consulting firm, Bill Doll & Company. Founded in 1988, the firm works on complex communications and advocacy issues. Clients have included banks, law firms, health systems, arts organizations and other not-for-profits, among them National City Corporation, KeyCorp, KPMG/Cleveland, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, The CSA Health System, Playhouse Square Foundation and the Greater Cleveland Partnership. His articles and speeches for clients have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune Small Business, the Washington Post, the National Law Journal, Vital Speeches, among others. Bill is a former president of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. 

Sarah Swart

Sarah de Swart, PhD has been appointed Director of the Faculty Development Center as of August 1, 2017.  Dr. de Swart joined UCITE in 2001, first as Assistant, and then Associate Director, and most recently served as its Interim Director after the retirement of Dr. Mano Singham in 2015.  “We are especially pleased that Dr. de Swart has agreed to lead the Faculty Development Center as she has immense expertise and experience with our faculty and will be able to integrate a number of  programs from UCITE into her new position,” announced Lynn Singer, Deputy Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs.   

In her new role as Director of Faculty Development, she will continue to be engaged with faculty, designing and implementing programs around the concepts of skills development and mentorship. Some faculty-development programs formerly housed in UCITE (such as the Senior Leadership event, New Faculty Orientation, and the Mentor Fellows program), will now become part of the Faculty Development Office, and will join already established programs such as To Tenure and Beyond, the Provost Leadership Retreat, and the NSF CAREER Grant Writing program. Going forward UCITE plans to focus primarily on programs related directly to teaching and learning. 

Dr. de Swart is an organizational and communications consultant, certified executive coach, team facilitator and professional voice and speech coach with more than 25 years’ experience in the areas of personal and professional development. A graduate of Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree cum laude in History and Literature, de Swart holds a Master’s degree in Theater Arts and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. She is also a professional actress who has performed on local and national radio and television commercials and training videos. She has been an integral part of the Learning Fellows, Mentor Fellows and Glennan Fellows programs, as well as leading numerous University teaching and learning sessions. In addition, she (in partnership with Dr. William Doll), has taught Presentation Skills workshops across the campus for the past 7 years, now totaling over 350 total seminars.