ILA's Board of Directors

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.

2017 Board Members

Janis Bragan Balda ILA Treasurer & ILA Finance Committee Chair Assoc. Prof. of Sustainable Enterprise Center for Sustainability & Global Change, Unity College USA	Mansour Javidan ILA Vice Chair Garvin Distinguished Prof. & Director Najafi Global Mindset Institute, Thunderbird School of Global Management USA
Aldo Boitano Executive Director Executive Development Chile	Rens van Loon Director, Human Capital - Organisation, Change & Leadership, Deloitte Consulting; Prof. of Dialogical Leadership Tilburg University Netherlands
Michael Brandenburg Director, Coaching Services, Executive Education; Director, International Business Development, IESE Business School, University of Navarra Spain	Max Klau ILA Secretary Chief Program Officer New Politics Leadership Academy USA
Ira Chaleff President Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates USA	Susan Elaine Murphy ILA Membership Committee Chair Prof. and Chair of Leadership Development, Organisational Studies, University of Edinburgh Business School U.K.
Cynthia Cherrey (Ex-Officio) ILA President & CEO USA	Laura Osteen Director Center for Leadership and Social Change, Florida State University USA
Sean Creighton President Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) USA	Andrew Simon Executive Director Yellow Edge Pty. Ltd. Australia
Cheryl Getz ILA Board Development Committee Chair Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Leadership Studies, University of San Diego USA	Katherine Tyler Scott ILA Board Chair Managing Partner Ki ThoughtBridge USA
Mike Hardy Founding Director Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University U.K.	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

Global Conference Chairs

Jorrit Volkers (Ex-Officio)
ILA 2017 Global Conference Chair
Dean of Deloitte University Europe,
The Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

Craig Domeck (Ex-Officio)
ILA 2018 Global Conference Chair
Dean MacArthur School of Leadership,
Associate Professor of Leadership

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