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Dr. Lea Metz serves as the Student Services Coordinator at the Clinton School of Public Service. In her staff role, Metz brings a developmental lens to coaching, supporting students, faculty, and staff in navigating their professional and personal growth journeys.
As an adjunct professor, she teaches graduate-level courses including Foundations of Public Service, Organizational Development and Systems Change, and Transformative Learning & Systems Approaches in Public Service.
Metz brings more than two decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, facilitating, training, and capacity building. Her career has focused on strategic planning, fundraising, marketing, and fostering transformational change within organizations. Since 2019, she has integrated an artistic approach into her consulting work, using visual synthesis and collective meaning-making to help organizations identify new possibilities.
Metz holds a Ph.D. in Organization Development and Change from Fielding Graduate University, where her research focused on the liminal space between trauma, healing, and ego development. She also earned a Master of Public Service from the Clinton School, a Master of Arts in Human Development from Fielding, and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Cell Physiology from Methodist University.