She has received a Small Private Online Class (SPOC) grant from the vice provost's office to develop HADM 4180x MAD Clouds: Making a Difference with Cloud-Based Technology in Entrepreneurial Business Planning, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Small Grant for the course development of Global Conversations with Entrepreneurs, and the Luigi Einaudi Chair Innovation Grant for the International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP) Norway.
[8] During her first year as a faculty member at Cornell University, Olsen established the Connect Entrepreneurial Hotelies mentor network.
She was the principal investigator on the Coleman Foundation Faculty Fellows Grant at Cornell University and served as program director for AY 2014-2015.
Olsen published From Concept to Impact: Beginning with the End in Mind Highlights from the 2015 Cornell Hospitality Entrepreneurship Roundtable in 2015.
Standing for “I Make A Difference, Do you?”, iMADdu empowers young entrepreneurs through mentoring and participation in its Student Apprenticeship Program (SAP).