Sophia Palahicky is currently holding a leadership position at the Centre for Teaching and Educational Technologies (CTET) at Royal Roads University (RRU). Her title is Associate Director, Learning Design and her portfolio includes leadership and support to 30 staff. The Associate Director’s role provides leadership for program design, development, and delivery and much of the work is supported by the Learning Design team. As Associate Director, Learning Design, Dr. Palahicky leads curriculum design, faculty development, faculty support, as well as, operational and strategic needs of CTET. Additionally, Dr. Palahicky is an Associate Faculty in the School of Education and Technology at RRU. She teaches at the graduate level and supervises research of students in both master's and doctoral levels. For more than 20 years, Dr. Palahicky worked in the field of education in many different areas and her roles included the following: online instructor, instructional designer, curriculum consultant, author, researcher, manager, K-12 teacher, resource teacher, and distributed learning teacher. At RRU, Dr. Palahicky works with faculty and staff to apply collaborative program design and development processes and the RRU learning design process. In recent years, she engaged with faculty and staff to investigate a program mapping initiative that included collaboration with over 60 programs, CTET, and IT Services. The success of this program mapping initiative led to the development of a new software application for program design and program reviews to enhance transparency in program design and assessment. With gratitude, Dr. Palahicky worked with many Indigenous communities over the course of her career as an educator. Her work with Indigenous communities started in 2002 when she worked for Coast Mountain School District 82 as a distance teacher. Dr. Palahicky asserts that teaching excellence requires: understanding how learning occurs; establishing a learning community; respecting diverse talents and ways of learning; responding to the needs of students; mastering subject material; and developing technical proficiency. With more than two decades of experience as an educator, she continues to be interested in developing, learning, reflecting, and applying these skills and competencies in her teaching practice.