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About Dan Merson

For over 30 years, I have navigated my professional life through the role of an educator, mentor, and coach. I received my Ph.D. in Higher Education from Penn State, following degrees in Higher Ed, Counselor Education, and Psychology from The University of Michigan, Penn State, and Kansas State University. I have professional experience in residence life, admissions, academic advising, and academic administration, and as a fixed-term faculty member in College Student Personnel and Higher Education.

For over a dozen years I have provided academic and research consulting and coaching to both organizations and individual faculty and graduate students. I’ve also worked for almost 20 years with a consulting firm that assesses organizational environment to drive sustainable positive institutional change. On most weekends, I help people to rediscover, reconnect with, and recommit to our natural world as a rock climbing instructor and guide for Adventure Out, California’s premiere outdoor school and guide service. I live half of the year on California's Central Coast and half of the year among the Appalachian Mountains in Central Pennsylvania.