CPA and Registered Nurse,
Lower Keys Medical Center
Key West, Florida
Master of Business Administration ’21
Melissa Aull has been named a 2020 Business Leader of Tomorrow by Online MBA Report. Nominated by their university, recipients are recognized as being among the top online MBA students from across the nation. Below is her profile as posted on the Report’s website.
Undergrad College and Major
Kentucky Wesleyan College, BA Accounting with minor in Philosophy
What makes Melissa a Business Leader of Tomorrow?
A rare individual succeeding at two different professions, Melissa Aull is creating her own life path as a CPA and a registered nurse. While enrolled online in Florida State University’s MBA program, she also is completing a nurse practitioner program at a separate university and specializing in mental health. Her end goal is to open and manage her own mental health practice. It’s the culmination of a 30-year career as controller, finance director and financial analyst for several Florida companies, as well as RN posts in Key West, Florida, where she now serves in general medicine and surgery at Lower Keys Medical Center. For setting her sights on obtaining this impressive skill set and demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit, Aull has shown that she is an ideal Business Leader of Tomorrow.
Melissa’s post MBA career plan
Melissa plans to open and successfully manage her own mental health practice.
Melissa's description of her Online MBA experience
I will forever cherish my experience in this online MBA program. I have been impressed by the quality of the professors in challenging my thinking, creating assignments to engage students in debate in an online environment, as well as creating projects and assignments that required student collaboration and applying theoretical concepts in a very practical manner. Many of the classes utilized textbooks but also challenged us to discuss, research, and write about real world scenarios through use of additional readings. In one class, we even had the opportunity to run the marketing department of a company in a virtual lab scenario. I highly recommend this program to anyone interested in an advanced degree that provides real world experience needed to advance your career to the next level.
