Episode 20: Jen Gudaz of Cornell University

Welcome to the Director Download, powered by Campus Rec Magazine. It’s time to go behind the curtain of the director role and have honest discussions with leaders in the campus recreation industry. In this episode, host Grady Sheffield, the director of Campus Recreation at Towson University and the senior advisor to the Campus Rec Mastermind Groups, gives you the listener real and authentic conversation between himself and special guest Jen Gudaz, the senior associate director of Athletics and the director of Physical Education and Recreation at Cornell University. Growing up on the West Coast, Gudaz learned much from her experiences there, becoming a jack of all trades. Moving east, she began her work at Cornell and hasn’t looked back since. Gudaz shares on the Physical Education and Recreation programs at Cornell and all they offer. In terms of leadership, over the years she’s learned not only how to lead from a place of compassion but also about what makes her a successful leader. She wears many hats, but the most surprising one deals with a sorority — you’ll have to listen to find out. Plus, Gudaz shares what her biggest challenge is right now, how she deals with her own mental well-being, and whether or not she’s a rebel.