Dr. Sherrill W. Hayes serves as Assistant Vice Provost of Student Success and Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. He has held several leadership positions at Kennesaw State including founding Director of the School of Data Science and Analytics (2021-2023), Director of the PhD in Analytics and Data Science (2018-2020), Director of the Master of Science in Conflict Management (2012-2017). He was also Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2006-2012) , Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2003-2006), Lecturer of Early Childhood Education at Guilford Technical Community College (2004-2005), and has had part-time and visiting faculty positions at Gateshead College (UK), Newcastle University (UK), and Saarland University (Germany).