ILA's Board of Directors is made up of Leadership scholars, educators, and leadership development professionals from around the world. In addition to up to 16 voting Directors, it currently includes three ex-officio conference chairs and three emeritus members. Please learn more about our illustrious Board by following the links below.

2018 Board Members

Mike Hardy ILA Board Chair Founding Director Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University U.K. About Mike Hardy Mike Hardy is a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University, formed in 2013 incorporating the Institute of Community Cohesion, The Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, and the Centre for Trust and Ethical Behaviour. From 1995 until 2011, as a senior U.K. civil servant, Mike was a leader with the British Council responsible for the Council's global programme for Intercultural Dialogue, youth engagement, and so-called 'soft-power' global strategic partnerships. Following overseas postings in the Arab world and Asia, his work focused on working with difference and with inter- and intra-community relations. His particular interest was with disconnected and underemployed young people. His portfolio included international work with schools and skills, networks of young global citizens, and capacity development within civil societies worldwide as well as supporting partnerships which help conflict and post-conflict contexts and people and communities in fragile states. In his leadership role he was active in policy advocacy in international affairs and public diplomacy, most notably in Muslim majority countries. He returned to the academic world in 2011 to a new Chair at Coventry and continues to contribute to conferences, global discussions and applied research in intercultural dialogue, multiculturalism and diversity. Mike is active within the UN Alliance of Civilizations, is lead advisor to the World Forum for Intercultural Dialogue in Baku and directs the RISING Global Peace Forum at Coventry. Professor Hardy has been twice honoured, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. ×	Cynthia Cherrey ILA President & CEO USA About Cynthia Cherrey Cynthia Cherrey has been involved with the International Leadership Association (ILA) since its inception as an invited participant in the W.K. Kellogg Leadership project to advance leadership knowledge, education and practice for the 21st century. She has served as ILA's executive director since 2000 and as president since 2011, when the ILA became an independent 501c(3) corporation. In September 2015, Cherrey assumed the role of president and CEO on a full-time basis. Prior to starting her full-time role at ILA, Cherrey spent five years at Princeton University as the vice president for campus life and lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. Between 2003 and 2010, Cherrey served as the vice president for student affairs at Tulane University and a clinical professor in the A.B. Freeman School of Business. Following Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, she helped lead the New Orleans university through one of the most challenging periods in its history as part of the senior leadership team on recovery and renewal efforts. From 1989 to 2003, Cherrey worked at the University of Southern California, serving ultimately as an associate vice president for student affairs, a clinical associate professor in the Rossier School of Education and lecturer in the Annenberg School of Communication. She taught undergraduate courses in communication studies and graduate courses in educational administration, leadership, and policy. Cherrey has published journal articles and book chapters in areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education. She also has served as co-editor of a publication series and co-written a book entitled Systemic Leadership. Most recently, she served as editor of Women and Leadership Around the World, part of ILA's Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series (Information Age Publishing). A former senior fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she has spoken at numerous conferences and events around the world. ×
Janis Bragan Balda ILA Vice Chair Assoc. Prof. of Sustainable Enterprise Center for Sustainability & Global Change, Unity College USA About Janis Bragan Balda Janis Bragan Balda, PhD, is a Associate Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Center for Sustainablity and Global Change, Unity College. An attorney, educator, and researcher, she has traveled extensively and worked on projects and issues in many areas of the world, including India, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Mexico, the U.K. and Brazil. She loves interacting with people of different cultures and is always seeking to absorb knowledge and experiences relating to new fields and to expand her areas of expertise. Current research projects include Gen-Y effectiveness in the workplace and the way in which vales and beliefs shape behavior. Janis has taught management, international business, international law, ethics and business law, and nonprofit leadership, and particularly enjoys bridging theory and practice across disciplines. Understanding that many significant legal issues arise from poor management practices, What she lacks by being considered "height challenged" by her closest friends and family, she makes up for with her intensity. Living between Southern California and Portland, Oregon, and Grenada, Janis loves exploring the parks and trails in all locales, finding beauty and interest in the varied settings. ×	Max Klau ILA Secretary Chief Program Officer New Politics Leadership Academy USA About Max Klau Max Klau is the Chief Program Officer at the New Politics Leadership Academy, where he oversees the design and delivery of leadership development programs focused on building a pipeline of alumni of service programs seeking to run for political office as the next step on their journey as servant leaders. Prior to taking on this role in August 2016, Klau served as the Vice President of Leadership Development at City Year, the education-focused AmeriCorps program that currently engages more than 3,000 young adults across 27 U.S. cities in a year of demanding, full time citizen service. Klau received his doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2005. He focused his studies on leadership education, specifically the application of the adaptive leadership model developed by Kennedy School professor Ronald Heifetz to leadership development programming for youth. An alumnus of four service programs, he has completed two years of service in Israel and led service programs in Israel, Honduras, Ghana, and the Ukraine. His writing about leadership has appeared in Fast Company, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and the Washington Post. ×
Joanne Barnes Dean of the Graduate School Indiana Wesleyan University USA About Joanne Barnes Joanne Barnes, PhD, is the Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Organizational Leadership in Department of Leadership Studies at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU), and has been involved in higher education since 1996. She was the first Affiliate Faculty for IWU'S College of Adult and Professional Studies where she not only facilitated adult learning, but also developed new faculty training. Joanne retired from Delphi Electronics & Safety in 2008, in Kokomo, Indiana after nearly 37 plus years of service, where she held various management and leadership positions. Her position upon retirement was the Global Quality Systems Manager for the entire enterprise. In this position, she was responsible for implementing global change and driving common quality practices throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America and leading global teams. Her current research involves cultural intelligence, multicultural leadership, the cross transferability of Western-basedtheories to other cultures and the role of unconscious bias and intersectionality in women's leadership. She has presented at several top conferences on leadership and has publications on women and leadership, cultural intelligence, and global leadership to name a few. Joanne is a certified trainer/coach in the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale, the Global Competency Inventory, and Cultural Intelligence. She also holds certifications from Aperian Global in the areas of GlobeSmart Profile Assessment, GlobeSmart Team Assessment, and GlobalSmart Leadership Assessment. She is currently working with universities and businesses in providing assessments and coaching to prepare students, faculty, administrators and business leadership practitioners for expatriate and global assignments as well as multicultural experiences. Joanne currently teaches advance global leadership theory, globalization and multiculturalism theory, and leadership colloquium courses. She earned her doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University. ×	Rens van Loon ILA, Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee Professor of Dialogical Leadership, Department of Philosophy, School of Digital Sciences and Humanities, Tilburg University; External Consultant, Deloitte University Netherlands About Rens van Loon Rens van Loon is a professor in Dialogical Leadership at Tilburg University (Netherlands) and a Director of Human Capital - Organization, Change & Leadership, and Member of the Global Leadership Group at Deloitte Consulting. His team works on realizing change in individual leaders, teams, and organizations as a whole, utilizing a dialogic approach where reflection is central to supporting new insights and action. He has extensive experience in the realm of leadership development in the C-suite and describes himself as being highly motivated by the question: What makes a good, effective, and authentic leader? ×
Aldo Boitano Executive Director Executive Development Chile About Aldo Boitano Educated in Spain, Germany, Chile, and the United States were he received the National Honor Society Award in High School. Aldo holds a major and bachelor degree in Industrial Civic Engineer from the University of Chile. As Vertical's (Latin America's Chile-based leading outdoor adventure-based education organization consisting of 4 organizations: Vertical Expeditions, Vertical Consulting, Institute Vertical and Fundación Vertical) Educational Director he designed and executed curriculums for internal training courses and developed new seminars and programs to be used in an educational sequence with 3rd grade throughout senior classes students. He increased in four years the number of kid and youth yearly participants from 300 to 4,000 and managed geographic expansion of program sites from one initial location to more than a dozen throughout Chile and Argentina. Also expanded the benefited participants from different places and countries, including northern and southern Chile, Argentina and USA. As and Educational Outdoor Programs Director of Fundación Vertical (not-for-profit organization Santiago, Chile) He increased trough donations 25% of program-participants. Expanded program sites throughout Chile, Argentina, and Antarctica. Brought participants to Chile and Antarctica from remote places such as Toronto, Canada and Queens, NYC. Served as a counselor to the United World Colleges (UWC) and as an active member of the Americas Philanthropy Fund. He is a member of the German Andean Club (DAV) and was Mountaineering Director from 1992 to 1994. He has delivered over 250 lectures on teamwork, leadership, and methodology instruction to top Chilean, Peruvian and US companies in the mining, oil, agriculture, computing, engineering, and telecommunications industries. He was until march 2014 the CEO of Vertical Chile and as such he organized leadership ventures into Africa, Patagonia and Antarctica for MBA students and Alumni from Wharton Business School, MIT-Sloan, NYU-Stern as well as leadership seminars for Babson College, MA. He holds an MBA at UNC-Charlotte Belk School of Business and worked while in the US as an associate professor on International Business at UNC-Charlotte Belk School and after returning to Chile as a guest professor at the Business and Engineering Schools of Universidad de Chile, ESE, Universidad Catolica and Universidad Santo Tomas a s well as at the Instituto Vertical. Before rejoining Vertical in January 2011 as CEO; he was the President of the board at Vertical and CEO at Andacor the company that owns and runs the El Colorado and Farellones ski resorts in the outskirts of Santiago. Presently he is the executive director of Executive Development with in-company world class executive education programs and workshops and professor of MBA at Universidad de Chile. ×	Kevin Lowe Chair, Membership Committee Professor in Leadership Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies Business School, The University of Sydney Australia About Kevin Lowe Kevin B. Lowe is Professor in Leadership in the Business School at the University of Sydney. A recognized leader in the field of leadership, Kevin is on ten editorial boards including The Leadership Quarterly (Associate Editor), Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Leadership, Journal of World Business, and Group and Organization Management. His research has garnered a number of awards including twice winning the Best Paper of the Year Award from The Leadership Quarterly, the Article of the Decade Award from the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Decennial Influential Article Award from The Leadership Quarterly. In 2017 he received an Emerald Citation of Excellence, recognizing articles of high impact over the most recent three years (2014-2016), for his review and extension of the field of followership. An enthusiastic teacher Kevin received the Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award recognizing teaching excellence across the seventeen campus University of North Carolina system and was nominated for a CASE U.S. Professor of the Year Award. He regularly speaks to faculty and doctoral student audiences on the topic of teaching excellence. Professor Lowe serves on the Board of Directors of the International Leadership Association, the Southern Management Association and the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management. He serves on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, is a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at Lancaster University (UK), and a Fellow of the Southern Management Association. ×
Michael Brandenburg Director, Coaching Services, Executive Education; Director, International Business Development, IESE Business School, University of Navarra Spain About Michael Brandenburg Michael is executive coach and top management consultant; among his clients are relevant companies of the IBEX-35 and DAX-100 as well as family businesses. He received formal coaching training in internal Gemini Consulting and IESE´s "Executive Coaching" programs and earned his International Coach Federation certification at the EEC (Escuela Europea de Coaching). He has a master in engineering from Aachen university as well as a MBA and AMP from IESE. He is fluent in English, German and Spanish. Michael has developed an international career as manager and leader in big global corporations starting 1984 at RWE, a German utility corporation. He has been responsible for the final assembly area at the SEAT car plant in Martorell. In 2000 he was named vice president in Capgemini consulting and IT-services group managing major accounts and alliances in Central Europe. In 2006 Michael joined IESE as director of customized programs for international clients. He has started his coaching work in 2000 as a facet of his work as top management consultant and trusted advisor. Michael is married and father of two daughters. In twenty-five years of work on four continents he has learned as executive, consultant, active member of professional associations, father and husband to balance his and other's needs and to manage his time. He perceives life as a never ending process of learning. Hobbies include: Tennis, Hunting, European Talent Mobility. ×	Susan Elaine Murphy Prof. and Chair of Leadership Development, Organisational Studies, University of Edinburgh Business School U.K. About Susan Elaine Murphy Susan Murphy joined the University of Edinburgh Business School in August 2013 as Chair of Leadership Development. She most recently taught doctoral-level courses in leadership and ethics, organisational change, and empirical approaches to leader and leadership development. Susan has published numerous articles and book chapters on leadership, leadership development, and mentoring. Her current research examines leadership requirements, effectiveness, and development across different contexts and organisational levels. In her research Susan identifies ways in which organisations encourage "the leadership development mindset". This method of accelerating leader development takes place at both the organisational level, which includes effective succession planning and talent management, and at the individual manager level by increasing leadership self efficacy and identity, one's developmental readiness, and use of mentoring and other networking opportunities. Susan has consulted across a range of industries including the entertainment, mobile technology, biotechnology, banking, construction engineering, and energy-related fields as well as national and local government and other public sector organisations. Susan was formerly Director of the School of Strategic Leadership Studies at James Madison University and Professor of Leadership Studies and before that at Claremont McKenna College as faculty and associate director of the Henry R. Kravis Leadership Institute. Before working in academia Susan worked as a Research Scientist at Battelle-Seattle consulting in the areas of leadership and management education, as well as organisational change for clients in the U.S. and Japan in for profit, nonprofit, and public sector organisations. Susan's work has been published in Academy of Management Executive, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Making, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology. Her most recent edited volume with Rebecca Reichard is Early Development and Leadership: Building the Next Generation of Leaders and an authored book, Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Protégés Make the Most of Their Relationships, (with Ellen Ensher). Susan also serves on the editorial board of Leadership Quarterly. Susan earned her PhD and MS from the University of Washington in Organisational Psychology, where she also earned a MBA at the Michael G. Foster School of Business concentrating in organisational behaviour and human resources. ×
Michael Chikeleze Associate Professor of Leadership Studies Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio USA About Michael Chikeleze Michael Chikeleze is an Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership Studies & HR Development in the College of Professional Sciences at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He currently teaches doctoral-level courses in leadership development, organizational behavior, and organizational change. Michael has formerly held several academic leadership positions such as Department Chair at Louisiana State University Shreveport, Campus Director and Associate Dean at Cincinnati State College, and Associate Director for Corporate Relations at University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining academia, Michael had a career in business, spending 10 years in leadership roles such as Tax Counsel at Procter & Gamble and Finance Manager at J. P. Morgan Chase & Company. Michael received a Ph.D. in values-driven leadership from Benedictine University in Lisle, IL, and holds M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. ×	Laura Osteen Director Center for Leadership and Social Change, Florida State University USA About Laura Osteen Laura Osteen is the director of Florida State University's Center for Leadership and Social Change and teaches in the College of Education. The Center is a campus-wide endeavor to transform lives through leadership education, identity development, and community engagement. Before coming to FSU, Laura worked with leadership, community, diversity, and experiential learning programs in student and academic affairs positions on the campuses of Kansas State University, University of Maryland, University of Missouri, and Stephens College. Laura envisions a world where every student is enabled and empowered to create positive sustainable change. She is co-author of Cultivating Leader Identity and Capacity in Students from Diverse Backgrounds (ASHE, 2013), co-editor of Developing Students' Leadership Capacity (Jossey-Bass, 2012), and a member of the Leadership Identity Development research team. Laura received her doctorate of philosophy degree from the University of Maryland, master's degree from Colorado State University, and her undergraduate degree from Indiana University. ×
Sean Creighton Chair, Board Development Committee President Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) USA About Sean Creighton Sean Joseph Creighton is the President of SOCHE, a regional association of colleges and universities dedicated to educating, employing, and engaging citizens. SOCHE coordinates programs for over 20 diverse members of higher learning with an annual economic impact of $3.3 billion, serving over 120,000 student and more than 36,000 employees. SOCHE received the Dayton Business Journal's Non-Profit Business of the Year Award in 2012 and Innovation Index Award in 2015. Sean is beginning his third term as an elected member of the Board of Education for the Yellow Springs Public Schools, where he has been president, chaired the 2020 Strategic Plan, and served as the district's legislative liaison. He also serves on advisory committees and boards for several local and national organizations, including Dayton Literary Peace Prize, International Leadership Association, Springfield Museum of Art, TEDxDayton, ThinkTV Public Broadcasting, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Community Partner Leadership Council. Sean has published and presented extensively on higher education, collaboration, civic engagement, and talent retention. He is also a principle investigator for the Kettering Foundation on several research projects concerning the civic mission of higher education. A higher education advocate and voice for collaboration, he posts regularly at creightoncollaborative.com. Sean holds degrees from Marist College and New York University, and earned his PhD from Antioch University. He lives in the charming village of Yellow Springs with his wife, Leslee, and his five fun children, Liam, Maya, Quinn, Audrey, and Juliette. ×	Carolyn Stefanco Chair, Fundraising Committee President The College of Saint Rose USA About Carolyn Stefanco Carolyn J. Stefanco is the 11th president of The College of Saint Rose, an independent, Masters Comprehensive institution in New York's capital city of Albany. With four schools and 65 academic programs, it is known for its commitment to the liberal arts, its nationally recognized professional degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and its focus on student success and service to the urban community. The student body of 4200 represents 36 U.S. states and 58 countries, and is comprised of one-third students of color and one-third first-generation college students. The first goal of the 2020 strategic plan is to make the institution a center of global connectedness. Stefanco joined Saint Rose after serving as vice president for academic affairs at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia; as the founding dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Stanislaus; and after a long career as a tenured professor of history at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), where she held numerous leadership positions. She also worked as a professor at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and at Oklahoma State University. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Duke University, a master's degree in women's history from Binghamton University, and a bachelor's degree in history and a women's studies certificate from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to the University of Zagreb in Croatia, served as resident director of a London Study Program, and created programs for student exchange and faculty research in Honduras, Brazil, Portugal, Croatia, Poland, and China. Stefanco has also worked as a higher education consultant for Saudi Arabia, and has conducted research and given addresses in eight countries. Stefanco is a trustee of the American University in Bulgaria, a board member of the Center for Economic Growth and Hearst's Women@Work, and serves on the Executive Committee of Albany Promise, part of the Strive Together national (U.S.) network to improve educational outcomes of urban youth. She has been a board member, committee member, and officer, and played other leadership roles in higher education organizations, such as the Association of Chief Academic Officers, the Council of Independent Colleges, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Council of Colleges or Arts and Sciences; and in NGOs, such as the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York and of Greater Atlanta, Leadership Atlanta, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Her research focuses on the history of women and global leadership, and she speaks and writes regularly about these and other issues.
Cheryl Getz Associate Professor Department of Leadership Studies, University of San Diego USA About Cheryl Getz Cheryl Getz is associate professor in the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES). Her research interests include: 1) using action research methodology to enhance the teaching of leadership; 2) the exploration of college student social identity; 3) the application of group relations theory to higher education administration and student affairs; 4) the development of inclusive and integrated leadership development; and 5) strengthening cultural competence through international travel and exchanges. She has held a variety of administration positions in SOLES, including Associate Dean, Director of Graduate and Credential Programs, and Assistant Dean. She teaches courses for doctoral and master's students in the Higher Education Leadership Program, while teaching an undergraduate course in the leadership minor. She supervises student affairs graduate interns and teaches the accompanying seminar. ×	Marilyn Thompson Associate Provost, Human Resources University of Waterloo Canada About Marilyn Thompson Marilyn Thompson is currently Associate Provost, Human Resources at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She oversees the administration and long-term planning of all university human resources, organizational and human development, and total compensation activities and programs. A senior executive officer of the University, Marilyn plays a key role in strategic planning and decisions affecting the employees of the university and provides vision for university-wide initiatives and human resources leadership. Marilyn has extensive executive and senior leadership experience in healthcare, government, education, and various business sectors. ×
John Heiser CEO LabVantage Solutions, Inc. USA About Mike Hardy Mike Hardy is a founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University, formed in 2013 incorporating the Institute of Community Cohesion, The Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, and the Centre for Trust and Ethical Behaviour. From 1995 until 2011, as a senior U.K. civil servant, Mike was a leader with the British Council responsible for the Council's global programme for Intercultural Dialogue, youth engagement, and so-called 'soft-power' global strategic partnerships. Following overseas postings in the Arab world and Asia, his work focused on working with difference and with inter- and intra-community relations. His particular interest was with disconnected and underemployed young people. His portfolio included international work with schools and skills, networks of young global citizens, and capacity development within civil societies worldwide as well as supporting partnerships which help conflict and post-conflict contexts and people and communities in fragile states. In his leadership role he was active in policy advocacy in international affairs and public diplomacy, most notably in Muslim majority countries. He returned to the academic world in 2011 to a new Chair at Coventry and continues to contribute to conferences, global discussions and applied research in intercultural dialogue, multiculturalism and diversity. Mike is active within the UN Alliance of Civilizations, is lead advisor to the World Forum for Intercultural Dialogue in Baku and directs the RISING Global Peace Forum at Coventry. Professor Hardy has been twice honoured, awarded the OBE in 2001 for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue. × About John Heiser John Heiser is CEO of LabVantage Solutions, Inc. and former President & Chief Operating Officer of Magnetrol International, Incorporated, a global leader in the development and manufacture of level and flow process control instrumentation. John began his career as an attorney in private practice before transitioning into business where he has held numerous leadership positions in legal, government affairs, sales, and marketing with DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, DuPont Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co., Inc., and Bausch & Lomb.	Éliane Ubalijoro Prof. of Practice, Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University, Canada; Member, Presidential Advisory Council for Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Rwanda About Éliane Ubalijoro Éliane Ubalijoro is an adjunct professor of practice for public and private sector partnerships at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development, where her research interests focus on innovation in global health and sustainable development. Dr. Ubalijoro is currently designing ISID's Executive Leadership Initiative, an upcoming program to help equip executives in international development with tools that support inner and outer sustainable transformation towards global prosperity. She is a the project manager and an investigator on a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health phase 2 project led by Professor Timothy Geary, the director of McGill's Institute of Parasitology. She is a member of FemStep, a research network highlighting rural girls' and women's perspectives for engendering poverty reduction strategies in Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, DR Congo and Ethiopia using arts based methodologies. In this context, she has been developing Ashes to Light, a multimedia project to document intergenerational dialogue on resilience as a platform for wisdom sharing and youth leadership training in peace building. Dr. Ubalijoro is an expert consultant for the non-profit group: The Innovation Partnership (TIP) as well as being the founder and executive director of C.L.E.A.R. International Development Inc., a consulting group harnessing global networks for sustainable systems development. Previously, she was an assistant professor in McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She is a member of the Presidential Advisory Council for Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Prior to going back to Academia, she was a scientific research and development director in a Montreal-based biotechnology company for five years in charge of molecular diagnostic and bioinformatics discovery programs. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Ecosystems Restoration Associates, a Canadian based pioneer in global forest restoration and conservation based carbon offset programs. She is a contributor to the upcoming book "The Transforming Leader: New Approaches to Leadership for the 21st Century" by Berrett- Koehler Publishers. ×

Global Conference Chairs

Ingrid Richter (Ex-Officio)
ILA 2019 Global Conference Chair
Executive-in-Residence,
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa; Partner, Threshold Associates
Canada

Kathryn Goldman Schuyler (Ex-Officio)
ILA 2020 Global Conference Chair
Founder,
Coherent Change
USA

Emeriti Board Members

Jean Lipman-Blumen
T. Bradshaw Prof. of Public Policy
The Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
USA

Larraine R. Matusak
Former Program Officer in Education and Leadership W.K. Kellogg Foundation
USA

About Larraine R. Matusak

Larraine R. Matusak Larraine Matusak is a Leadership Scholar and President of the consulting firm, LARCON ASSOCIATES. She has been a scholar and practitioner of leadership for many years in a wide variety of leadership roles. She has served as Program Officer in Education and Leadership and as the first Leadership Scholar at the W.K.Kellogg Foundation. Matusak designed and directed the Kellogg National Fellowship Program, a leadership development program for people in the early years of their career. She also led in the creation of the Leadership grant making area at the W.K.Kellogg Foundation

Matusak is presently a Senior Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of the University of Maryland. She has also served as a graduate advisor and mentor for the Fielding Institute of Graduate Studies of Santa Barbara, California, and The Union of Graduate Schools in Ohio. She has served as a consultant and keynote speaker to many communities, organizations, businesses, academic institutions and foundations on topics of organizational design, leadership development, creativity and adult learning. The Blandin Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Lily Foundation, University of Denver, University of Maryland, Michigan State University, University of Georgia, Franklin College, Marietta College and the National League of Cities are just a few of the organizations included on the list. Creativity and innovative approaches to problem solving and leadership have gained her recognition by educators, business leaders, nonprofit groups and community organizations.

Matusak has been the president of Thomas A. Edison State College of New Jersey, and the dean and founder of the College of Alternative Programs at the University of Evansville, Indiana. She served on the original design team and directed the Alternative Baccalaureate Program at the University of Minnesota, and was a professor of Natural Sciences at that institution. She has received numerous honors including the 1996 International Morris T. Keeton Award recognizing her contributions in adult learning and leadership. In 1974 she also received the Outstanding American Educator award from the Medical College of Augusta, Georgia and has been awarded several Honorary Doctorates.

She holds many professional appointments with regional and national education organizations. Dr. Matusak is a trustee of The ILA (International Leadership Association); Leadership Institute, Los Angeles, California; Dia-Logos-Institute for Generative Learning and Collaborative Social Change, Inc., Cambridge, Mass; BCACSF (Battle Creek Area Catholic Schools Foundation), The Humane Society of Battle Creek; and is past president of the board of SAFE Place and the College of St. Benedict, Minnesota.

Matusak has authored numerous publications and articles in the field of nontraditional adult education and leadership. She has recently (1996) completed a book on leadership aimed at public consumption and focusing on citizen leadership. The title of the book is Finding Your Voice: Learning to Lead…Anywhere You Want To Make A Difference; Jossey Bass Publishers. In 1998 she completed a Monograph entitled The First Ten Years of the Kellogg National Fellowship Program; In 1999 she co-edited with Barbara Kellerman, and contributed a chapter to Cutting Edge: Leadership 2000; University of Maryland Press. She also co-edited Building Leadership Bridges, 2001. She is presently working on a book that addresses Philanthropic leadership and co-edited Building Leadership Bridges, 2002, Center For Creative Leadership, North Carolina Press.

Matusak received her bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from the College of St. Benedict, a master's degree in entomology from the University Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her doctorate in higher education administration was earned at Fielding Institute of Graduate Studies, Santa Barbara, California.

Georgia Sorenson
Leadership Scholar, Executive Education, Møller Centre
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
U.K.

About Mike Hardy

About Cynthia Cherrey

About Janis Bragan Balda

About Max Klau

About Joanne Barnes

About Rens van Loon

About Aldo Boitano

About Kevin Lowe

About Michael Brandenburg

About Susan Elaine Murphy

About Michael Chikeleze

About Laura Osteen

About Sean Creighton

About Carolyn Stefanco

About Cheryl Getz

About Marilyn Thompson

About Mike Hardy

About John Heiser

About Éliane Ubalijoro

About Ingrid Richter

About Kathryn Goldman Schuyler

About Jean Lipman-Blumen

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