Karen Alsbrooks

Dr. Karen Alsbrooks is an Instructor for the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. She is a Senior Consultant with Moira Organization Development Alliance, a boutique management consulting firm specializing in strategic management for higher education and nonprofit organizations. She previously served as the Executive Director of Organization Development in the OSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion and held multiple other leadership and administrative roles within that office.

She has an unsatiable passion to see all organizations, especially government agencies, function efficiently and effectively to accomplish their organizational purposes. Her unique combination of diversity, equity, and inclusion experience, management expertise, and passion for organizational excellence foster her drive to help individuals, groups, and organizations pursue social change through effective activism as evidenced by societal impact.

Dr. Alsbrooks has a BA and MA from Ohio State, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in Business Management and Human Resources (strategic alliances focus) from OSU. To round out her career at OSU, Dr. Alsbrooks was OSU’s first Women’s Volleyball All-American and is enshrined in the OSU Athletic Department’s Sports Hall of Fame. She is a pickleball enthusiast and enjoys cycling, Pilates, yoga, belly dancing, and other activities.