Elizabeth Shun-Ching Parks is an engaged scholar with two decades of academic and non-profit experience related to language and communication, collaboration and teamwork, leadership and ethics. As a researcher, coach, facilitator, and speaker, Parks creates spaces of learning related to relational interactions, cultural diversity and professional life, and engagement with strategic initiatives that study and promote workplace and community well-being. Her work focuses on how we all might listen and dialogue in creative and spacious ways, focusing on the communication and collaboration challenges found in Higher Education and community care contexts.

Dr. Parks is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. She has given hundreds of professional presentations around the world, and researched, written and published over 50 peer-reviewed academic articles and two books, including “Listening: The Key Concepts” (2025) and “The Ethics of Listening: Creating Space for Sustainable Dialogue" (2018). She is the current Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Listening.

She has worked extensively as administration, faculty, staff and consultant in a variety of public and private higher education and non-profit contexts, including as a Fulbright Specialist. Parks’ award-winning international and intercultural scholarship is grounded in the belief that our individual, relational, and organizational lives are enriched by bravely creating hospitable spaces of dialogue across difference. Her passion is to work collaboratively with others to make those spaces grow in number, depth and breadth.