Meighan Julbert serves as the Associate Athletic Director for Integrative Human Performance & Strategic Initiatives at Penn State University Athletics, providing senior leadership for integrated human performance and student-athlete experience across 31 varsity programs and more than 800 student-athletes. Her work brings leadership development, wellness, professional readiness, community engagement, and performance support into a cohesive, institution-wide strategy.
She leads initiatives that align coaches, sport administrators, academic and compliance staff, sport performance professionals, and external partners around shared development goals. At Penn State, Julbert has led the development of Nittany360, a department-wide integrated framework bringing human performance and student-athlete development into strategic alignment, a model that reflects her broader approach of building systems that elevate both individual potential and organizational effectiveness.
Prior to her current role, Julbert served as Assistant Athletic Director and Director for Student-Athlete Development and Enrichment at Penn State, leading strategic programming across the full student-athlete population while serving as sport administrator for men's and women's swimming and diving and as the department's Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Designee. Before joining Penn State, she served as Assistant Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Success and Senior Woman Administrator at Bethany College, where she built a comparable integrated performance model.
Julbert brings a decade of experience in mental performance, having worked with collegiate and professional athletes, elite teams, and corporate executives to drive high-level performance, resilience, and leadership. That foundation in applied performance science sits at the center of how she approaches athlete support, organizational design, and leadership development.
Julbert began her career at the University of Tennessee and Auburn University, where alongside completing her studies she gained formative experience working within two Division I athletics departments. She holds a master's degree in kinesiology with a concentration in sport psychology from Tennessee and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Auburn.
Julbert currently serves on the Big Ten Conference Inclusive Excellence Committee and is active in mentoring emerging professionals in collegiate athletics.