Mission

South Mountain Strength Advocates support SMCC’s journey to become a strengths based college where all succeed by being encouraged to do what they do best every day. Advocates work to ensure that every SMCC student and employee is confident in their strengths and in how to apply them to gain academic, social, professional, and personal success.

Roles of SMCC Strengths Advocates:

• Advocates facilitate SMCC Strengths Workshops for employees and students.
• Advocates assist faculty members in building strengths based college programs and curriculum.
• Advocates assist managers and supervisors in building strengths based teams and departments.
• Advocates mentor and advise students and staff in personal strengths development.

Requirements to become a SMCC Strengths Advocate:

• Advocates are volunteers.
• Advocates have completed a minimum of 9 hours of Strengths Training at SMCC.
• Advocates have completed the Strengths Mentoring and Advising Program.

Interested in becoming a South Mountain Strengths Advocate?
Email  julie.wechsler@southmountaincc.edu

SMCC Strengths Advocates

Tim Budworth

Director of Technology & Media Services
tim.budworth@southmountaincc.edu
Achiever | Maximizer | Learner | Strategic | Activator

Todd Eastin

Director of Athletics
todd.eastin@southmountaincc.edu
Relator | Responsibility | Discipline | Self-Assurance | Command

Callan Fay

Student Services Specialist, New Student Orientation
callan.fay@southmountaincc.edu
Learner | Positivity | Empathy | Achiever | Input

Suzanne Hipps

Director of Career and Educational Planning Services
suzanne.hipps@southmountaincc.edu
Harmony | Developer | Connectedness | Relator | Empathy

Scott Geddis

Faculty
scott.geddis@pcmail.maricopa.edu
Activator | Command | Strategic | Ideation | Relator

Osaro Ighodaro

Vice President of Student Development
osaro.ighodaro@southmountaincc.edu
Relator | Strategic | Achiever | Intellection | Positivity

Christine Neill

Enrollment Services Coordinator
christine.neill@southmountaincc.edu
Learner | Activator | Futuristic | Intellection | Input

Mark Nielsen

Division Chair, Business & Information Technology
mark.nielson@southmountaincc.edu
Achiever | Harmony | Relator | Competition | Maximizer

Janet Ortega

Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness & Technology
janet.ortega@southmountaincc.edu
Learner | Achiever | Analytical | Restorative | Responsibility

Jean Watermolen

Director of Admissions Registration & Records
jean.watermolen@southmountaincc.edu
Positivity | Communication | Maximizer | Woo | Empathy

Nicole Wetzel

TRIO Program Director
nicole.wetzel@southmountaincc.edu
Achiever | Maximizer | Relator | Futuristic | Ideation