About Us

Ombuds Office

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Prevaux

Steven D. Prevaux, J.D.
USF Ombuds Officer   

 

 

Steve is an active Certified Organizational Ombudsman Practitioner®  (CO-OP®) and credentialed in Advanced Conflict Management with Kilmann Diagnostics. He is a Certified Trainer in Workplace Conflict Resolution with the Mediation Training Institute. While not serving in formal capacities, his practice as an organizational ombuds is informed by the skills and perspectives gained as a Florida Supreme Court certified Mediator with former board certification in education law.

Prior service includes:

  *  Vice President and Director of the International Ombudsman Association (IOA)
  *  Board of Directors Florida Academy of Professional Mediators (FAPM)
  *  Board of Directors National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)

In 2015, he completed the Fulbright International Education Administrators scholarship program in France and has served as Regional Peer Reviewer for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.  His prior work experience includes the University of Florida, the Florida Board of Regents of the State University System and private legal practice.  Steve earned his B.A. in International Relations and B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and then attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he earned his J.D.

 

Lesko

Cheryl Lesko
USF Ombuds Office Administrator 

 


Cheryl joined the Ombuds Office in July 2018 and has earned a certification by the Mediation Training Institute in Resolving Workplace Conflict and in the Use of the Conflict Dynamics Profile Individual and 360 Assessment Instruments. 

Since joining USF in 2006, she has been providing executive administrative services in the SVP/Dean's Office of USF Health and earned a Paralegal Certificate in 2012.  From 2013-2017 she applied her paralegal skills by working concurrently with the USF Health Office of Clinical Research negotiating clinical research trial agreements. 

Cheryl combines her administrative and paralegal expertise to make the USF Ombuds Office a welcoming and safe place for Faculty, Staff and Administrators to voice concerns, work through conflict situations, and brainstorm for ideas to assist those seeking ways to constructively resolve workplace issues.