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Katherine Beatty is Director, Global Portfolio Management at the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs. She is co-author of Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring Success (2005), and has authored numerous articles in the areas of strategic leadership and team leadership. She has managed many of the Center's world class programs, including Developing the Strategic Leader, Leading Teams for Impact, and Leadership At the Peak. She also designs and delivers customized solutions for clients who strive to improve their organization's performance through leadership development. In addition to working with clients, in her current role Katherine is responsible for ensuring the Center's portfolio of programs, products and services is most relevant to clients across the globe. Katherine holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Saint Louis University.
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Chris Ernst is a faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. Chris integrates global research knowledge with global real-world experience to develop intergroup, boundary spanning leadership capabilities within individuals, organizations, and broader communities. As a researcher, he has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and reports and is a co-author of the books, Success for the New Global Manager: How to Work Across Distance, Countries and Cultures (Jossey-Bass/Wiley), and Boundary Spanning Leadership (forthcoming from McGraw-Hill Professional). As a practitioner, he has served in multi-year expatriate roles in Asia and Europe, manages and leads multicultural teams, and creates and facilitates leadership experiences for organizations worldwide. Chris holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from North Carolina State University.
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Christopher Gergen is a founding partner of New Mountain Ventures, a leadership development and consulting firm, and co-author of Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives (Warren Bennis Leadership Series; Jossey-Bass). Additionally, Christopher is a visiting lecturer and Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at Duke University within the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy's Hart Leadership Program. He is also the "Innovator in Residence" at the Center for Creative Leadership.
Christopher is the co-founder and a current board member of SMARTHINKING, the leading online tutoring provider in the United State—serving over 200,000 students from more than 1,000 universities, colleges, and high schools. Other entrepreneurial ventures include starting a coffeehouse/bar dedicated to promoting the arts and music in Santiago, Chile and helping to launch the "Entrepreneur Corps"?a national service initiative sponsored by AmeriCorps*VISTA that placed 400 full-time business volunteers for a year of service in over 90 non-profit organizations across the country. Previously, Christopher started LEAD!, a non-profit leadership, entrepreneurship, and service program for Gonzaga College high school students in Washington, D.C. and is a founding board member of the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School also in D.C. Further professional experience includes serving as Vice President of New Market Development for K12 Inc. and Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for New American Schools. |
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Kelly Hannum is Manager of Research, EMEA Region at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her research focuses on connections between social identity and leadership, and on developing culturally responsive leadership development and evaluation processes. Her work has been published and presented in a wide variety of international venues. Kelly is co-editor of the Center for Creative Leadership's Handbook of Leadership Development Evaluation and the forthcoming Pfeiffer publication Understanding and Leading Across Differences: Cases and Perspectives. Kelly has a B.A. in History and German Area Studies from Guilford College and a M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Emily Hoole is the Director of the Evaluation Center at CCL. Emily is responsible for a global
team of evaluators serving CCL enterprise-wide. Emily serves as an evaluator on client
initiatives, partnering with clients and CCL staff on identification of organizational and
leaders needs, clearly articulating program goals, objectives and outcomes, and then
evaluating the program for improvement and individual and organizational impact. Along
with client initiatives, Emily focuses on CCL's open-enrollment programs, coaching, new
product development and external evaluations of leadership development programs.
Prior to CCL, Emily was the Director of Evaluation at The Rapides Foundation in central
Louisiana, managing multiple, large, multi-year evaluation projects focused on
healthcare, education and economic development. Emily also served as the Executive
Director of the United Way of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County in the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia. Prior to United Way she worked at a public television station and for
a community hospital. Emily holds a doctorate in Assessment and Measurement from
James Madison University.
The Evaluation Center supports CCL and the field through the development of new
knowledge, methods and approaches to the evaluation of leadership development. The
team of specialists within CCL's Evaluation Center has been on the front edge of
understanding and defining effective evaluation for more than a decade. The evaluators at
CCL are well-known for their rigorous and effective approach to assessing the complex
puzzle of individual and organizational leadership development.
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Cynthia D. McCauley is a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. With over twenty years of experience at CCL, Cindy has been involved in many aspects of CCL's work, including research, product development, program evaluation, coaching, and management. She co-developed two of CCL's feedback instruments, Benchmarks and the Job Challenge Profile. She is co-editor of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development; and has written numerous articles and book chapters for scholars, HR professionals, and practicing managers. Her research has focused on the role of job assignments, developmental relationships, and formal feedback processes in leader development. She is currently involved in efforts to better understand emerging forms of leadership for dealing with complex, adaptive challenges. She received her bachelor of arts degree in psychology from King College and her master of arts and doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Georgia.
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Marian N. Ruderman is Research Director, Americas and EMEA Regions at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. Marian is co-editor of the Center for Creative Leadership's Handbook of Leadership Development (3rd edition). Previous books include Standing at the Crossroads: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women (co-authored with Patricia Ohlott) and Diversity in Work Teams: Research Paradigms for a Changing Workplace (co-edited with Susan Jackson). Marian has written dozens of articles and book chapters on leadership. Her work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, and Training & Development among many others. In addition, the popular press has reported widely on Marian's work in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fortis Tribune, and Working Women. Marian has a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
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Ellen Van Velsor is a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ellen is co-editor of the CCL's Handbook of Leadership Development, and co-author of Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America's Largest Corporations? (1987, 1991). She has authored numerous book chapters and articles, including "Leadership Development as a Support to Ethical Action in Organisations" (Journal of Management Development, 2008), "A Complexity Perspective on Leadership Development" (Uhl-Bien & Marion, 2007), "Developing Organizational Capacity for Leadership" (Hooijberg, Hunt & Antonokis, 2007), and "Constructive-Developmental Coaching" (Ting & Scisco, 2006). Her current research focuses on beliefs and practices related to globally responsible leadership. Ellen has a B.A. in Sociology from SUNY Stony Brook, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Florida, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University. |
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