Heidi Livingston Eisips

Heidi Livingston Eisips

College of Information, Data & Society
Information Science and Data Analytics (ISDA)

    • Courses include: Data Visualization, Business Analytics, Beginning Statistics, Advanced Statistics, Spreadsheet Modeling, Simulation Modeling, Linear Programming/Optimization, Decision Analysis, SQL & Query Languages, Tableau, Writing for Business & STEM Disciplines, Technical Reports, Introduction to Marketing, Sports Marketing, Honors Practicum in Marketing & Business Analytics, and more
    • Lucas College of Business, Marketing & Business Analytics, Adjunct Faculty 2019-2023 (promoted to Senior Lecturer, AY-C)
    • Winner, J. Giglierano Organizational Citizenship and Service Award, 2023
    • Sbona Honors Program Faculty Advisor (2021-2023, 6 semesters)
    • Faculty Advisor for two student clubs focused on professional development: GOAL - Generation of Aspirational Leaders (2019-present) and Spartan Analytics (2023-2024)
    • Adjunct Faculty for Engineering, STEM, and Professional Writing in the Interdisciplinary ENGR 100W Writing Program (2020-2023)

Email

Preferred: heidi.eisips@sjsu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment

Education

Bachelor of Arts, UC Berkeley, 1990

Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Yale University, 1997

EdD in Educational Leadership, San Jose State University, ABD (expected 2024)

Bio

Heidi Livingston Eisips has an MBA with an emphasis in Market Research and Strategy from Yale University. She is currently completing and defending her doctoral dissertation in Ed Leadership, focused on Higher Education. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Information Science & Data Analytics (ISDA) department of the College of Information, Data & Society at SJSU, where she teaches a wide variety of statistics, analytics, and engineering/STEM writing and communication courses. She has also led and transformed a ground-breaking experiential professional development course, the Gary J. Sbona Honors Program in Marketing & Business Analytics, from Spring 2021 to Fall 2023 (six semesters), where students worked with industry-leading organizations such as NVIDIA, Verily, Western Digital, the San Jose Earthquakes, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and many more.

Throughout her career in the private sector, Ms. Eisips has worked as a marketing strategist with Fortune 100's, start-ups, and mid-size companies, across a variety of industries, including enterprise software, mobile tech, biopharma, and ed tech.

Ms. Eisips has served on SJSU's university-wide Honors Task Force and a university-wide executive search committee. A member of SJSU’s Doctoral program in Educational Leadership, with a research emphasis on student success, emerging technologies, algorithmic bias, and data ethics, Ms. Eisips is also a founding member of the Unconscious Bias Working Group at Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

An experienced senior lecturer and facilitator, Ms. Eisips has taught all ages, from youth to post-graduate, both in the classroom and in professional development and training settings. With expertise in a wide array of educational technologies and effective pedagogical approaches, her teaching passion is encouraging student voice, innovation, human-centered design thinking and co-creation of learning through a balance between online and in-person educational strategies. Her dissertation (link) explores the intersection between technology and student voice.

An experienced writer and editor, Ms. Eisips has worked as a faculty-in-residence with the SJSU Writing Center; she also has served on the College of Business Written Communication Task Force from Fall 2020 to Fall 2023 (3.5 years).

Leadership Mission Statement

As a leader I will: 

  • Build collaborative relationships of trust and mutual respect.
  • Honor diverse perspectives; honor individual and academic freedom.
  • Listen; participate in thoughtful dialogue.
  • Give people the benefit of the doubt; assume good intent.
  • Generate safe spaces which foster creativity and allow room for failure on the path to innovation.​
  • Engage in compassionate, purposeful service to the community. 

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