About Sean Cook
Sean Cook
Sean Cook, M.Ed., is an experienced higher education professional, with a 15+-year history of working with students, their parents, and other higher education professionals. He recently left Penn State University to start his own coaching and consulting firm and relocated to Athens, GA to be closer to his extended family.
Sean writes periodically for the Student Affairs Collaborative Blog, on issues related to student affairs careers, campus issues, and higher education in general.
At Penn State, he has worked with apartments and suites, traditional residence halls, and special living options.Past projects include welcome week/orientation, assessment, marketing, multicultural programming, and coordination of a 3-credit RA training class, including development of an online learning environment using the ANGEL course management system. Sean has also written several versions of Residence Life’s annual reports, diversity strategic plan, and RA and Professional Staff Manuals.
In his last position, Sean set up a podcasting studio for Residence Life and developed sample audio and video podcasts on topics of interest to Penn State students, families, faculty and staff. He was also responsible for Residence Life’s emergency plan coordination, including student staff training modules, mock shelter activations and critical incident response.
Additionally, Sean is working to become a certified career and life coach, and to obtain certification from the International Coach Federation, an independent accrediting body for career and life coaching programs. Also, Sean is planning to pursue MBTI and EQ-I certification and plan individual and group workshops around exploring personality types and emotional intelligence. Information about these certifications will be added to the site once the appropriate certification programs are completed.
