Dr. Corey Seemiller currently serves as an award-winning faculty member in the department of Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations at Wright State University and previously held roles including Director of Leadership, Learning, and Assessment at OrgSync, Inc., a campus management technology platform and Director of Leadership Programs at the University of Arizona.
She has worked in higher education for nearly 30 years in both faculty and administrative positions in higher education. She has both taught and directed programs related to her areas of expertise, which include leadership, civic engagement, career development, fraternity and sorority life, and social justice.
Dr. Seemiller is also an avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast, often posting on social media about her epic mountain climbs and adventure treks all over the world. She is described as someone who “lives big” and never shies away from a chance to learn, grow, and connect with others.
Leading Expert on GenerationS
Dr. Seemiller has been on the forefront of research and publishing about Generation Z since the generation began entering college. In collaboration with her co-collaborator, Dr. Meghan Grace, she conducted her first nation-wide mixed-methods study on Generation Z college students in 2014, her second, the Generation Z Stories Project, in 2017, and the third, Gen Z Voices on Voting in 2019. She and Dr. Grace have published six books – Generation Z Goes to College, Generation Z Leads, Generation Z: A Century in the Making, Generation Z Learns, Gen Z Around the World, and Generations in the World of Work, as well as the Gen Z Voices on Voting Report, the Campus of Tomorrow Report, and several scholarly and trade publication articles.
Dr. Seemiller recently co-led the Global Gen Z Study where she worked with 91 research collaborators from around the globe to better understand Generation Z in a post-COVID world. Participants from 81 countries took part in the study, and the research was published in Gen Z Around the World with Emerald Publishing. She just completed her fifth study, Generations in the World of Work and has published a book under the same name.
Dr. Seemiller’s work has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, as well as in several other news publications and academic journals. She has also been interviewed for podcasts as well as TV and radio shows worldwide and has engaged in market research consulting for Fortune 10, 50, and 500 companies. Her highly popular TED Talk at TEDxDayton has been watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers. She speaks all over the world at conferences and institutions and frequently consults for marketing firms and corporations .
Prominent Voice in Leadership Education
In addition to her work on Generation Z, she is the author of The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook and Student Leadership Competencies Resource Guide, both designed to help educators develop intentional curriculum that enhances leadership competency development with students as well as designed evaluation measurements for each competency, an online database that outlines leadership competencies needed by each academically accredited industry, a workbook, online competency self-assessment, and an iOS app. Dr. Seemiller also published Discovering the Leader Within: Self-Leadership Skills for Teens.
Dr. Seemiller served as the 2014 and 2015 Co-Chair for the National Leadership Symposium and the 2015, 2017, and 2019 Co-Chair of the Leadership Education Academy. She served on the Board of Directors for Lead365, as a member of SAGE ‘s Editorial Advisory Board for the Leadership Videos Collection, an Associate Editor with the Journal of Leadership Studies, and a founder and Board member of the Sonoran Center for Leadership Development. She is currently a Board Member with the Institute for Generational Research and Education, a 501(3)(c)..
Dr. Seemiller also co-authored an award-winning children’s book, Fenix: The Fearless Feline, with her then 8 year-old Gen Z daughter.
Inspirational Coach on Relationships
In addition to her generational and leadership work, Dr. Seemiller is a master accredited life coach specializing in all things relationships, manifesting, and Law of Attraction. She co-hosts the Rock That Relationship! podcast with Tracy Wood and is in the process of publishing her memoir, The Soulmate Strategy. She is currently working on a heartbreak to healing book series for women.
Dr. Seemiller received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Arizona State University, Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University, a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Arizona, and graduate certificate in Management from Wright State University.
