The article profiles Mary Hoddy, Wisconsin Union staff education and training coordinator at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. Hoddy supervises the workplace learning activities of the union's part-time employees working in food and retail services, maintenance, and custodial services, and full-time professionals working in administration and marketing. She believes that it is her job to tell people not to use negative role modeling in training classes. Hoddy oversees several workshops and learning events annually. She is an evangelist for the union and for the welfare of appreciative inquiry in its application on human resources and employee education. She asserts that her department is firmly grounded on adult education and appreciative inquiry.