Renee Dimino is a professor at Monroe Community College and was the SUNY Guided Pathways Project Director. She has served as an alumni college coach as well as a lead coach supporting other pathways coaches. She currently serves as a lead coach for SUNY REACH. She was a participant in the NYS Student Success Center Coaching Academy Cohort 1 and Achieving the Dream’s national coach training. Renee co-designed and co-teaches the SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) course Coaching Strategies for Higher Education and Design and Deliver Inclusive Courses. She completed the SUNY SAIL Mindful Leadership and the Career Readiness Champion certificate programs, both with distinction. In her faculty role, she coordinates College Success (COS) courses and adjunct faculty, and she uses her coaching skills in teaching College Success, co-requisite English, Health, and Career Development courses. Renee is a trained reflective practice facilitator who has a passion for student success and faculty development. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Education from SUNY Geneseo and a master’s degree in Education from SUNY Brockport. She is currently pursuing her national health and wellness coaching certificate and enjoys spreading mindfulness through her business Mindful Life Connections. 

Michele Forte completed the first cohort of the Coaching Academy and serves as a lead coach for the SUNY REACH project.  Dr. Forte also works across several multi-campus, cross-functional communities of practice at the system level and is also a coach with the New York Student Success Center (NYSSC) Coaching Academy as well as for the SUNY REACH initiative. Dr. Forte is also an Associate Professor at SUNY Empire State University and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York State. She has extensive experience in mentoring and coaching diverse organizational and student populations in various educational and not-for-profit settings. Her scholarly interests include competency-based frameworks for assessing learning, high-impact coaching and mentoring models, and connections between grief, loss, and resilience.