Dr. Stephanie Murphy will be the keynote speaker for Louisiana Tech University's Winter Commencement Ceremony at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 7th, located at the Thomas Assembly Center on the Ruston campus.
Murphy grew up in LaPlace, graduated from East St. John High, then earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of New Orleans in 2009 before pursuing her doctoral degree at Tech, where “the faculty was welcoming and the quarter system made it easier to complete the work more efficiently without sacrificing the learning and knowledge attained,” she said.
Stephanie Murphy is the Vice President of Culture and Experience at UnitedHealth group where she guides enterprise employees, increasing their business and leadership skills. Murphy is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Society for People Analytics (SPA), a global nonprofit community of more than 8,000 members dedicated to the analytics profession, she has also worked for Dell Technologies, the U.S Department of Treasury, Louisiana State Police and Lumen Technologies.
Murphy hopes to leave an impression on Tech graduates with her speech, "the importance of a support system and a strong network,” she said, impactful keys to helping her both in graduate school and now in her career. “Success,” Murphy said, “is not achieved alone.”
