Tieree Reid has two decades of experience in K-16 administration and nonprofit management. She has over 15 years of experience in diversity and inclusion. As the principal consultant of Tieree Reid Consulting and a certified coach, trainer, and speaker with the John Maxwell Team. Tieree offers customized services to help individuals, teams, and organizations thrive. 

Previously, she served as Vincennes University’s (VU) assistant dean of instruction at VU’s flagship early college high school, Ben Davis University (BDU) and as a member of VU’s Continuous Quality Improvement Committee. At VU, Tieree implemented and oversaw associate degree pathways in three school districts in general studies, pharmacy tech, culinary arts, business, health careers, information technology, and precision machining. Under her leadership, the pharmacy tech program at Area 31 Career Center became the nation’s only accredited high school program by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) to offer an associate degree in pharmacy tech. In 2018, the MSD of Wayne Township awarded her with the Advocate Award for her outstanding work in increasing associate degree attainment to 97%. 

Before serving at VU, Tieree served as a central office administrator at Goodwill Education Initiatives, Inc. (GEI) where she helped to develop, launch, and manage The Excel Center, Indiana’s first adult high school to offer high school diplomas to adult learners. Her specific focus at GEI was to diminish issues connected to generational poverty, which prevented access to sustainable careers. Tieree lived out her focus through the oversight of Indiana’s only high school alumni program that actively provided in the field retention services in higher education, scholarship, and career to its graduates. As a GEI administrator, she received several local and national awards. Tieree helped students secure more than 21 million dollars in scholarships and grants during her tenure with GEI. 

An avid community advocate, Tieree serves on several local committees and boards. She is a Martin Works advisory board member at Martin University. Martin Works is a new initiative designed to address poverty alleviation through apprenticeship and post-baccalaureate career placement for adult learners. She was recently appointed as an inaugural diversity and inclusion ambassador to the National Headquarters Office of Diversity and Inclusion of the American Red Cross, and she is Mrs. Central Indiana 2021. Her platform is pregnancy and infant loss, a cause she champions from personal experiences. 

Tieree is pursuing a Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in Higher Education at Oakland City University. She holds a Master of Science in Student Affairs and Higher Education from Indiana State University; a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication from the University of Minnesota Morris; a Project Management Certificate from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; and a Financial Educator Certificate from the University of Minnesota. She is a proud alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Women in Leadership program for senior level administrators in education.