Leadership Education Teams

The Leadership Education teams welcome your suggestions and/or involvement!  Learn more about team members below. 

LEd Membership Team

Tara Edberg  Tara-edberg@uiowa.edu

Chad Hyson  Chad.Hyson@ubc.ca  

Dan Tillapaugh Daniel.tillapaugh@gmail.com 

LEd Resources Team

Kristine Lalonde lalondek@mail.belmont.edu 

Kristina Rickettskgr10@psu.edu 

Dave Rosch dmrosch@uiuc.edu

Conference Creative Team

Paige Haber Paige.haber@gmail.com

Bernice Ledbetter bmledbetter@earthlink.net 

Tony Middlebrooks tmiddleb@UDel.Edu 

Barbara Volpe Barbara.volpe@colorado.edu 

Tara L. Edberg (Tara-edberg@uiowa.edu, Membership Team)  is the Assistant Director for Leadership Development Programs at The University of Iowa. Tara serves as an adjunct faculty member teaching leadership classes for the University. She also coordinates all co-curricular leadership opportunities through the Office of Student Life. This includes the Leadership Institute, MY IOWA: Multicultural and International Student Summit, The Student Leadership Conference, The Leadership Development Series, etc. She has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and an M.S. in Higher Educational Leadership from Oklahoma State University.  Tara has been involved with ILA and the Educational MIG since 2003 and looks forward to advancing the MIG this year.

Chad Hyson (Chad.Hyson@ubc.ca, Membership Team), Associate Director, Student Development is responsible for providing leadership in the areas of student orientation and transition, leadership development, and involvement opportunities. He enjoys working with students, faculty, and professional staff at the University of British Columbia and brings extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of student development, educational leadership, and experiential learning. He has worked and studied at the University of Maine, Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph.

Bernice Ledbetter (bmledbetter@earthlink.net, Conference Creative Team) is an educator and scholar whose expertise lies in the areas of values and leadership. As a full-time faculty member in the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute and University, she offers seminars in the Ethical and Creative Leadership concentration. Dr. Ledbetter completed her doctoral work at Pepperdine University. Her research investigated the development and actualization of values in leadership among women executives. She is the co-author of Reviewing Leadership, a text that integrates leadership and spirituality, translated into Chinese and Spanish. Dr. Ledbetter’s professional background includes serving as the founding director of the De Pree Leadership Center and providing organizational consulting through Right Management Consultants.

Dave Rosch (dmrosch@uiuc.edu, Resource Team) As Program Director at the Leadership Center, Dave is responsible for coordinating Integrity, Imprint, and LeaderShape, supervising the Graf interns, providing direction for the Center’s Consulting Program, and teaching a leadership course. Prior to coming to Illinois he worked at Syracuse University in the Office of Residence Life, teaching leadership and facilitation skills. Dave earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Binghamton University, a Master’s of Science degree in Higher Education from Colorado State University, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Syracuse University. His free time is spent with his wife Laurel and son Collins, and he enjoys playing competitive ultimate Frisbee.

Dan Tillapaugh (Daniel.tillapaugh@gmail.com, Membership Team)  is the Assistant Director of Student Activities at Goucher College. In his role he coordinates Goucher's co-curricular leadership programs, including the Emerging Leaders Initiative, the LEAD sophomore year mentoring program, the Goucher Leadership Council, and the Senior Leadership Capstone Experience. Dan earned his undergraduate degree at Ithaca College and his M.Ed. in Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland. He is active within ACPA - College Student Educators International and the Maryland College Personnel Association, where he currently serves as advisor to the president.

Barbara Volpe (Barbara.volpe@colorado.edu,  Conference Creative Team) is the Executive Director of the President’s Leadership Class, Inc., a leadership development program for top students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to this position, she was the President for ten years of the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC), an organization founded by the business community to improve the quality of K-12 public schools in Colorado.  In addition to numerous leadership positions, her leadership background includes training through the Center for Creative Leadership and participation in the Denver Community Leadership Forum Class of 1994. She also developed a series of leadership courses for K-12 educators with Outward Bound and founded a public school in Denver based on Outward Bound pedagogy, The Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning. She has served for eight years as a consultant to the Rapides Foundation on a large school reform project in Central Louisiana.

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