Galena’s Katherine Hagemann receives Otterbein’s Alumni Leadership Award

The Otter­bein Uni­ver­sity Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion awarded Kather­ine Vis­conti Hage­mann (Class of 1997 & 2003) of Galena, the Lead­er­ship and Cit­i­zen­ship Award at Otterbein’s Young Alumni Awards Cer­e­mony held on Sep­tem­ber 21.

The Lead­er­ship and Cit­i­zen­ship Award is pre­sented to indi­vid­u­als who have demon­strated out­stand­ing lead­er­ship capa­bil­i­ties and orches­trated mean­ing­ful change as lead­ers in their pro­fes­sion or in their communities.

Hage­mann is cur­rently act­ing as Direc­tor of Change Man­age­ment and Adop­tion for Blue­wolf, a con­sult­ing firm. She was awarded Bluewolf’s “Rookie of the Year” in 2012 and “Woman of Inno­va­tion” at the Global Con­fer­ence in 2010. Pre­vi­ously, Hage­mann worked for Hunt­ing­ton Bank for 14 years where she served as a Vice Pres­i­dent and Pro­gram Man­ager. In 2008, she founded Vis­cokay Media, LLC, a per­sonal, busi­ness, and non­profit writ­ing ser­vices provider.

At Otter­bein, Hage­mann earned a B.A. in English/Secondary Edu­ca­tion with magna cum laude hon­ors. She also returned to Otter­bein to com­plete her M.B.A. in 2003.

OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY is a pri­vate, co-educational, com­pre­hen­sive lib­eral arts insti­tu­tion founded in 1847 and affil­i­ated with the United Methodist Church. It is located in West­er­ville, a sub­urb of Colum­bus, that is ranked 15th on Money Magazine’s 2009 list of Best Places to Live. Otter­bein enrolls approx­i­mately 3,000 stu­dents, includ­ing full and part-time under­grad­u­ates, adult learn­ers, and stu­dents enrolled in The Grad­u­ate School.

Otter­bein offers over 70 majors, as well as indi­vid­u­al­ized fields of study. Master’s degree pro­grams are offered in allied health, busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion, edu­ca­tion, math­e­mat­ics and nurs­ing, includ­ing courses in its newly-accredited nurse anes­the­sia pro­gram in con­junc­tion with Grant Med­ical Cen­ter. Otterbein’s first doc­tor­ate pro­gram, doc­tor of nurs­ing prac­tice (DNP), began classes in spring 2011.

Accred­ited since 1913 by the North Cen­tral Asso­ci­a­tion of Col­leges and Schools, Otter­bein has con­sis­tently placed high among peer insti­tu­tions in U.S. News & World Report’s “Guide to America’s Best Col­leges” for over a decade. Otter­bein is ranked 14th among 146 schools in its cat­e­gory in the 2012 guide and was named a top 10 “Up and Comer” by its peers in the 2011 guide. Otter­bein has also been rec­og­nized by Wash­ing­ton Monthly as a Top 50 school for con­tri­bu­tions to the pub­lic good and by the President’s Higher Edu­ca­tion Com­mu­nity Ser­vice Honor Roll for its com­mit­ment to com­mu­nity ser­vice and service-learning.

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