Sandy Lyall and Michelle Baragona have joined Florida State College’s division of Finance and Administration as administrators who specialise in worker improvement and well-being.

Lyall is the brand new director of the Worker Help Program (EAP), and Baragona is the brand new director of coaching and organizational improvement.  

Lyall most not too long ago served as a senior advisor at Mass Common Brigham in Boston, the place she supplied medical counseling providers and managed the peer help program at Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital. Baragona involves FSU from Tallahassee Group Faculty, the place she served as a senior advisor on the Efficiency Innovation Institute. 

Renisha Gibbs, FSU’s affiliate vice chairman for human assets and its finance and administration chief of employees, expressed pleasure concerning the new additions. 

“As we proceed weathering the pandemic’s results, we are able to see that worker wants have shifted,” Gibbs mentioned. “To handle these modifications, now we have welcomed two thrilling new hires who will assist navigate the evolving wants of our college and employees. Worker improvement and wellbeing  are prime priorities, and we stay up for Michelle and Sandy’s management in these areas.” 

Lyall is a Licensed Psychological Well being Counselor, Licensed Worker Help Skilled and Board-Licensed Psychological Well being Counselor. Her most up-to-date place required her to assist in medical counseling providers, managing the peer help program along with a spread of management consulting providers. 

Previous to her work in Boston, Lyall served because the EAP Director for Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. She has an extended profession as a psychological well being skilled, plus roles as an adjunct professor, a homeless outreach clinician and a disaster clinician. She additionally has expertise in go away and incapacity administration.

At FSU, she’ll lead an EAP program that gives providers for transient intervention and short-term counseling, supervisor consultations, organizational improvement, mediation providers, debt administration and emergency mortgage fund aid. 

“It’s an honor to have the chance to guide the Worker Help Program at FSU,” Lyall mentioned. “EAP is a confidential useful resource that may be a key associate in FSU’s well-being and belonging technique, and I’m captivated with empowering staff and leaders to understand their private satisfaction and concord with their household, work and group.  

She added: “I’m very excited to collaborate with the FSU group to reinforce consciousness of EAP’s transformative assets.”

Baragona, an FSU alumna, has greater than 20 years of expertise in worker coaching and organizational improvement. At TCC, she managed a crew that supplied efficiency options, together with hiring help, personalized coaching, teaching, administration analyses and course of enchancment. 

As director for Coaching & Organizational Growth/Steady Enchancment, Baragona guides efforts to help in attaining college strategic targets and goals by a targeted supply of office coaching and private improvement alternatives. Moreover, she oversees steady enchancment initiatives for the college, figuring out areas for enchancment and elevated efficiencies. 

“As an alumna of FSU, I’m excited to have the chance to help the college in its continued excellence by partnering to develop sustainable options to enhance the work life of individuals,” Baragona mentioned. “Our persons are our strongest asset, and creating an surroundings the place individuals like to work is exceptionally necessary. Constructing trust-based relationships is a key precedence for the Steady Enchancment & Coaching workplace.”