Alexis Kenyon
Alexis Kenyon is the Associate Director of the Bachelor of Applied Science and Interdisciplinary Professional Studies Programs within the Extended Studies. In this role, Alexis manages the day to day of the program, teaches classes, supports escalated student issues, and collaborates with the director to ensure student success. Alexis has been a Wellness Champion since 2012 when they were called “Health Ambassadors.” Extended Studies has approximately 150 employees with one of them being a direct report of Alexis. Through her role as a Wellness Champion, Alexis is dedicated to ensuring that her team understands the need for work-life balance and that it is okay to say “No” to a project or assignment if they are at capacity.
Alexis’ favorite ways to engage in wellness while at work include encouraging people to get active, having walking meetings when working on campus, and not checking her work email during the weekend. She feels supported by her supervisors by their continued encouragement of her in this role and wellness as a whole. To highlight this, Alexis was able to create a class within their disciplines curriculum that specifically focuses on the 8 dimensions of wellness.
She loves engaging in the different wellness related activities that BroncoFit hosts and encourages her department to participate. Alexis mentioned that she “likes that Boise State University supports employee wellness.”