Christi Sanders Via Teaches Students to Lead with a Head for Business and a Heart for People

Sanders Via teaches HR

Christi Sanders Via, a human resource management professor at Colorado Mesa University's Davis School of Business, has spent nearly 15 years carrying a small gold coin that reminds her of a workplace safety experiment she once ran in Texas.

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  1. Christi Sanders Via, a human resource management professor at Colorado Mesa University's Davis School of Business, has spent nearly 15 years carrying a small gold coin that reminds her of a workplace safety experiment she once ran in Texas.
  2. She now uses that coin and other career stories to teach CMU students about employee incentives, hiring and professional readiness.
  3. Sanders Via has also built SHRM certification preparation into CMU's HR capstone course, and this year the effort secured funding to cover students' first exam fees.
  4. She says personal connections and empathy remain essential even as artificial intelligence and automated hiring spread.
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