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Kathleen Grove, ’77, director of IUPUI’s Office for Women, will be honored by the Women and Leadership Member Community of the International Leadership Association. Grove will receive the Outstanding Practice with Local Impact Award for 2021. It will be presented during the group’s annual Women and Leadership conference in June 2022 in Portsmouth, England.

The Outstanding Practice with Local Impact award recognizes excellence in the practice of an individual whose advocacy, commitment, or actions in support of women in leadership has influenced individuals and audiences within their organization or community. The award recipient is someone who practices leadership-from outside or within the academic arena with a focus on women and leadership and has implemented a substantial change, policy, or event that has benefited women within a local sphere. The Women and Leadership Member Community advances women in leadership by bringing together researchers, coaches, educators, practitioners, and students interested in generating resources, disseminating research, and fostering the development of women leaders.

Grove has led the Office for Women since 2004 and has a diverse background of professional experiences from which to draw in her role as the director including her work as an attorney, a marriage and family therapist and a businesswoman. As the director, she builds bridges across campus and collaborates with other units and academic departments to help create an inclusive environment in which both women and men can succeed. In addition, she teaches for the Women’s Studies program in the IU School of Liberal Arts, Indianapolis. Courses she has taught include Advancing Women in Leadership, Women and the Law, and Women’s Rights around the World.

Grove’s work is part of what makes IUPUI an empowering place for women to work. Forbes Magazine listed IUPUI among its top employers for women for 2021. The campus is the top employer in Indiana and the third ranked university nationally. Overall, IUPUI ranked 14^th out of 300 employers on the list.