Dr. Toby Brooks

Over his career, Brooks has served as an educator at nearly all levels of higher education, including two community colleges, a large private Christian university, two regional state institutions, and two flagship state universities.

Brooks brings a passion for creating and implementing programs and processes to support faculty, staff, and students at all levels. He strives to best understand through listening and learning from others and seeks out ways to integrate different cultures and ideas along with consistent core values of service, growth, hustle, and vigilance into every endeavor. He is dedicated to whole-person development and leading by example.

Strategic in purpose. Relentless in pursuit. Better every day. Not just a catchy vision statement—a way of life.

Prior to joining Baylor as Director of the Academy for Teaching & Learning, Brooks served for the last 14 years in faculty and administration at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) teaching primarily in the highly diverse School of Health Professions. Brooks also led a multi-year effort at TTUHSC to establish a teaching and learning center. In his role as assistant dean of faculty success within the School of Health Professions, he has worked with faculty from different backgrounds and training to help them become more skilled, confident and effective educators.

Brooks also has published more than 20 books, 30 peer-reviewed articles and 200-plus magazine articles in a diverse career as an athletic trainer, professor, and automotive journalist. His podcast, Becoming UnDone, involves interviews and conversations with high achievers and how failure and setback can be springboards to success. The podcase ascended to a global Top 10% show in just 18 months.