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THE CVDL

The alumni publication of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership

Summer 2018 | Issue 5

From the Director, Jim Ludema

This year we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Center for Values-Driven Leadership. If the CVDL were a child, it would now be reading chapter books, doing long division, and better at using technology than its parents.

This edition of the CVDL Insider is more evidence of how far we’ve come as a center: new grads, new research, new pro-grams, and more. We’re looking forward to celebrating these accomplishments with you at our 10th Anniversary event on November 9. Perhaps more importantly, we’re looking forward to creating the future with you. Thank you for the important ways you invest in our Center, and in the cause of values-driv-en leadership.

Crossing the Finish Line: Ten Grads from Cohorts 1& 3 Complete Program

June 2, 2018, was the blue sky and sunny sort of day you dream about. For 10 CVDL students, it was also the fulfillment of their dreams to complete their Ph.D.s.

One student from Cohort 1 and nine from Cohort 3 completed the program. (For a full list of graduates, see the next page. Several other students from Cohort 3 are nearing completion of their dissertation

Inside this edition:

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Transforming business & society through values-driven leaders and their flourishing companies.

with plans to finish before the end of 2018.) Following the commence-ment ceremony, the graduates and their families joined the CVDL faculty and fellow students for a champagne brunch. Graduates were introduced by their dissertation chairs, and then given a few minutes to share their reflections and thanks with the people who supported their journeys.

• Graduates and Award Winners, p 2-4• 10th Anniversary Celebration Plans, p 6• Updates from the Center & Alumni, p 7

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Congratulations, New Grads!Daniel Brian Blood, Ph.D.“Development of the Team Virtuality Index (TVI)”Chair: Dr. Jim Ludema

Allison Dake, Ph.D.“Regenerative Leadership: Co-Creating Significant Economic, Social, and Envi-ronmental Value for the World”Chair: Dr. Gus Gustafson

Brad Davis, Ph.D.“Game-Based Learning for Values-Driv-en Leadership Education”Chair: Dr. Marie Di Virgilio

Patrick Farran, Ph.D.“Cultivating Work Meaningfulness with Appreciative Inquiry”Chair: Dr. Jim Ludema

Marcia Kent, Ph.D.“Positive disruption: The Art and Science of Transformational Thinking”Chair: Dr. Gus Gustafson

Melissa Anne Norcross, Ph.D.“Developing a Measure for Humble Team Culture and Exploring Its Impact on Performance”Chair: Dr. Mike Manning

Stephanie L. Quirk, Ph.D.“What Matters Most: Study Abroad for Global Leadership Development”Chair: Dr. Gus Gustafson

Lisa H. Ruiz, Ph.D.“A Design for the Future: Leadership and Culture Change in the Framework of Design Thinking”Chair: Dr. Mike Manning

Nancy Sayer, Ph.D.“In Search of Benevolent Leadership: A Mixed Methods Study”Chair: Dr. Jim Ludema

Kimberly Sebastian, Ph.D.“Leader Emotional Intelligence & Work Engagement in Virtual Teams: A Quan-titative Study”Chair: Dr. Marie Di Virgilio

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Photos, left to right: Grads with faculty celebrate immediately after the ceremony; Patrick Farran looking relaxed; Brad Davis and Kim Sebastian with their dissertation chair, Marie Di Virgilio; Stephanie Quirk with husband Brian, whose shirt says it all; Melissa Norcross

relishing the celebration with BenU Provost Jim Payne; Librarian Kent Carrico accepts the rockstar status bestowed upon him by the

cohort. (Photos by Enrique Lopez and Jeff Knox.)

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CVDL Honors Five With Awards

During the Graduation Brunch, the Center announced the win-ners of five awards in values-driven leadership, granted biennially by the CVDL.

“These awards are an important way of recognizing exceptional, values-driven leaders who have a transformative impact on busi-ness and society,” says Dr. Jim Ludema.

Faculty and students of the CVDL’s executive Ph.D./D.B.A. Pro-gram in Values-Driven Leadership made nominations and helped to select the honorees. The five awards and 2018 honorees are:

Best Dissertation (Cohort 2) - Present-ed by the faculty to Dr. Mike Kuppinger

Distinguished Alumni Award - Presented to a graduate who exemplifies our mission, Dr. Kathy Hopinkah Hannan (C2)

Outstanding Service Award - Given in recognition of ser-vice to the CVDL, Dr. John Heiser (C2)

Outstanding Ser-vice Award - Given in recognition of co-founding the CVDL, Dr. Sandra Gill,

retiring dean of the college of business (pictured above left).

Values-Driven Lead-ership Award, pre-sented by Cohort 3 to a distinguished visiting scholar - Dr. Inger Stensaker (pic-tured above right).

Award winners Kathy Hannan and John Heiser (with Jim Lude-

ma), and Mike Kuppinger (with Jim Gustafson)

Photos: Gus with Stephanie Quirk, Alli-son Dake, Marcia Kent; Dan Blood leads

the way to the ceremony; Nancy Sayer shares her cap with her father, who

postponed his own doctoral studies.

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Celebration Planned for Nov. 9

News & Updates from the Center

Ciao, Italy!Benedictine was represented well at the

International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values Conference in Trieste, Italy, July 2018. Many of the travel-ers, with their partners, are pictured above.

Special congratulations goes to Dr. Jean Russo Gould (C2) and Dr. Wally Baehrend (C2) for their co-authored paper, “Does Passion Pay? The Return on Values for Passion Qualitatively and Quantitative-ly,” which won the 2018 Rami Sagie New Scholar Award (the only award given at the conference).

A full list of presentations and papers is found on page 9, along with additional photos.

The Center for Values-Driven Lead-ership turns 10 this year. To celebrate, we are planning a November 9 gather-ing of alumni, students, faculty, visiting scholars, and friends.

The celebration will begin with a Senior Executive Round-table featuring Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, the world’s leading positive psychology

scholar. Best known for her “broaden and build” theory of positive emotions, Fredrickson will speak about the role of positive emotions and how they can help sustain behavior change. This event is open to the public.

A private reception and dinner for our closest friends (including you!) will occur in the evening.

Cohorts are encouraged to sched-ule reunion parties before or after the events. Watch your email for additional details and registration information.

Interim Dean NamedCo-founder of the

CVDL and Dean of the College of Business, Dr. Sandra Gill, stepped down in June 2018. The university has named Elizabeth Ritt, Ed.D.,

MSN, RN, as the interim dean. Dr. Ritt is a tenured professor of nursing at Benedic-tine. She has 25 years of leadership and teaching experience in higher education, previously serving as a dean and provost at other institutions. Dr. Ritt is a nationally recognized expert in accreditation, adult learning, faculty development, and online education. Welcome, Dr. Ritt!

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Additional Updates from the Center

Congrats, Mike!Dr. Mike Manning, professor of leader-ship, strategy, and change, received the designation of Advancement Within Rank from Benedictine. Faculty members are awarded this designation in recognition of meeting or exceeding expectations for scholarship, teaching, and service.

Center Begins Undergrad WorkBeginning this year, the Center will be the university’s liaison for the Arthur J. Schmitt Scholars, a leadership devel-opment and scholarship program for undergraduate students committed to leadership and service. Schmitt Scholars are required to dig deep and discover a problem they are impassioned to solve through creative and impactful projects.

Dr. Gus Gustafson has worked closely with the program for several years, in partnership with Dr. Sandra Gill. Follow-ing Dr. Gill’s retirement as Dean of the College of Business, the Schmitt Schol-ars program will now be housed inside the Center, representing the Center’s first efforts at undergraduate leadership de-velopment. Gus will continue to lead the program for the university.

AI Workshops OfferedTwo Appreciative Inquiry workshops are

scheduled for this fall:Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry,

September 12-14. Develop the confidence to practice the AI process and leave with a detailed action plan for how you can use AI to develop leaders or guide a change process in your organization.

Appreciative Leadership for Peak Perfor-mance, December 5-7. Identify your lead-ership success pattern, so you can grow your capacity. Then learn to coach others and enable them to flourish.

Find details about both events at this link, and contact Amber regarding registration discounts.

New Format for Master’s ProgramAfter careful consideration, the CVDL has

adapted the master’s program to better fit market demands. The new Master of Sci-ence in Values-Driven Leadership will be fully online and priced at $27,000. The MS-VDL’s 10 courses will work through leading self, leading others, and leading strategi-cally. The 18-month master’s program is designed to equip managers to set vision, create strategy, transform culture, drive change, and lead through influence.

The program’s first cohort will launch in May 2019.

More details at this link.

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INSIDER UPDATES

Allison Dake, Ph.D. (C3 ’18) began teaching at Regis University as an affiliate professor in the Masters of Nonprofit Management program.

David Barnett (C4) was featured in a U.S. News and World Report article titled 5 Pointers for Picking Insurance Stocks.

Congrats to Mike Chike-leze, Ph.D. (C1 ‘14), John Heiser, Ph.D. (C2 ‘16), Wally Baehrend, Ph.D. (C2 ‘16), and Gus Gustafson, Ph.D. (faculty) on their new leadership roles with the International Leadership Association. Mike and John are new board members; Wally is the chair-elect

of the Ethics Learning Community; Gus is the chair of the Business Leadership Member Interest Group, and Co-Chair, Doctoral Program Faculty & Leaders Learning Community.

Mike Chikeleze, Ph.D. (C1 ‘14) is now Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. Congrats!

Patrick Farran, Ph.D. (C3 ’18), pictured above, pre-sented his research at the 3rd International Sympo-sium on Work Meaning-fulness hosted at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, June 14-15, 2018.

John Heiser, Ph.D. (C2 ‘16) spoke at the Deloitte Center

for Ethical Leadership at Notre Dame in September. He also was a co-keynote speaker with Mary Gentile on Giving Voice to Values, presented to the online MBA program at Penn State University, May 2018. John acted as a panelist at the Center for Hire Ambition Leadership, “Activating Corporate Purpose as a Catalyst for Business Trans-formation” site visit, Tampa, FL, May 2018. Lastly, he was elected to the board of Aspire Chicago, a non-profit that supports inclusive en-vironments for people with disabilities.

Gus Gustafson, Ph.D. (faculty) was the keynote

speaker at the graduation ceremonies of GlobeServe Theological Seminary in Ghana. (Photo above.)

Trevor Heller (C3) and wife Nina welcomed their baby boy, Aiden Lincoln (photo above) to the world at 7:03 pm on July 4th, 2018.

Brett Hinds (C4) was quoted in an article featured in Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology International.

Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, Ph.D. (C2 ’16) retired from KPMG and joined the Higher Learning Commission as a public member of the IAC. She also joined the Board of Blue Trails Software Holdings (owned by Remi Vespa, Ph.D., C2

’16) and was appointed to the Smithsonian NMAI Board. Additionally, Kathy spoke at the 2018 WCD Global Institute on Long-Term Investing through ESG Criteria, and was the Benedictine University commencement speaker for the 2018 undergraduate graduation. You can watch her commencement speech at this link. Kathy moved from the Chicago area to Southampton, New York.

Tina Huesing, Ph.D. (C1 ‘14), and Jim Ludema, Ph.D. (faculty) published a chapter in the book Ad-vances in Global Leadership, Volume 10. The chapter, titled “The Nature of Global Leaders’ Work,” received

the Outstanding Author Contribution Award by the publication’s editors. Also, Tina is now the Professional Teaching Fellow in the Grad-uate School of Manage-ment at The University of Auckland.

Amber Johnson (C4, staff) was the keynote speaker for the Chicago Area Better Business Bureau’s Award Luncheon in Nov. 2017.

Angie Karesh (C4) received a promotion to Senior Manager IT - Organiza-tional Transformation at Exelon. In March, she spoke on retention strategies for women at the Purdue University conference on Breaking Bias. Her family is celebrating the marriage of

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her son Greg on October 14, 2017, and her daughter Amy on May 5, 2018. (Photo on previous page.)

Marcia Kent, Ph.D. (C3 ’18) is now a Talent Develop-ment Senior Consultant at the Children’s Hospital Colorado. Congrats!

Colleen Lyons (C4) present-ed at the ITESO Business School (photo below), where Francisco Vázquez (C4) is a faculty member, on April 25, 2018. Here she discussed ethical challenges in large companies, ethical behavior practices, and the develop-ment of ethical leadership.

Shelly Major, Ph.D. (C2 ‘16) is now the Chief Nursing Officer at the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics. She also presented “Team Emotional Intelligence & Patient Satisfaction: What

Do Networks of Conversa-tion Have to Do With It?” at the Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders Mid-Year Conference on April 27th, in Springfield, IL.

Teresa Oliszewicz (C3) is the Director of Organi-zational Development at UI Health and is proud to share that the first cohort of the organization's new Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) Academy graduated on May 18, 2018. The TAP Academy curriculum was designed around three core areas: Know Yourself, Know Your Team, and Know the System, which mimics the general structure of the CVDL’s doctoral program. Plans are under way to update the curriculum and select the second cohort of participants, with an eye on beginning the next program in Fall 2018.

Tasha Patterson (C4) was a guest speaker with GLOW (Girls Light Our Way), a Peoria-based non-profit led by Dawn Harris Jeffries (C4). Dawn and Tasha are pictured to the left.

Stephanie Quirk, Ph.D. (C3 ’18) and husband Brian welcomed their beautiful daughter, Beatrix Sophia, (below) to their family on June 23rd. Stephanie also co-authored a chapter with Gus Gustafson, Ph.D. (faculty) based on her dissertation research, in the upcoming Advances in Global Leadership Vol. 11 (due out in November). The chapter is titled “Develop-ing the Next Generation of Global Leaders: Proposing an Iterative Framework for Student Global Leadership Development.” Stephanie was also awarded two research grants in the latter part of 2017 from the Illinois Community College Student Activities Associa-tion and from the College of DuPage Foundation.

Salwa Rahim-Dillard (C4) was just named to Diver-sityMBA’s 2018 list of Top

100 Executive & Emerging Leaders. Congrats, Salwa, on this well-deserved honor!

Congrats to Mary Ross-wurm (C2), Tim Courtney (C4) and the whole team at Little Star, for being named Provider of the Year at the 11th Annual Autism Speaks Autism Law Summit.

Lisa Ruiz, Ph.D. (C3 ‘18) with co-authors Michael Eh-ret and Dr. Joyce S. Osland (a distinguished visiting scholar) published a chapter in the book Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 10. The chapter’s title is “Case Studies of Global Leadership: Expert Cogni-tion in the Domain of Large-Scale Global Change.”

Congratulations to Clarke Sabandal, Ph.D. (C2 ‘17) on becoming the Chief Oper-ating Officer at TMS Health Solutions. Clarke and his

family now live in California.

Kasey Short, Ph.D. (C2 ‘16) (above) was the keynote speaker for the special Black History Month gathering of the Employee Resource Groups of companies including Molex, Northrup Gruman, and more. Her topic was personal branding.

Nancy Sayer, Ph.D. (C3 ‘18) and her dog Frodo took home first place honors (photo below) at the Kennel Club of Yorkville.

Lucie Tran (C4) has a new job as Senior Manager, Program Management, at DigitalGlobe, running a team of Senior Project Managers.

Francisco Vázquez (C4) be-came a faculty member at ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara.

Benny White, D.B.A. (C2 ‘16) was featured on NCTV17, Naperville Community Television in February. The video can be found at this link.

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Conference Presentations

SymposiaFour Ways to Create an Ethical Framework for Organization 4.1: Virtues-Based Leadership, Personalism, Humility, and Loosely Coupled Systems • Dr. Steve Carter (C2)• Enrique Lopez (C3)• Dr. Melissa Norcross (C3)

Return on Values Research Initiative: Learnings from a Multi-Year Study • Dr. Wally Baehrend (C2)• Dr. Kathy Hannan (C2)• Dr. Michael Manning• Dr. Jean Russo Gould (C2)

Values are the Foundation: Leading Healthcare in the 21st Century • Dr. Mary Nash• Dr. Lisa Ruiz (C3)• Dr. Carla Worthey (C2)

Accepted PapersAristotelian Inspiration for Values-Based Leadership Development: From Capacity to Arête • Dr. Mary Nash

International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values Conference in Trieste, Italy, July 2018

Designing for Impact: Design Thinking as a Tool for Culture Change • Dr. Lisa Ruiz (C3)

Diversity and Inclusion Lead-ership: A Correlative Study of Authentic and Transforma-tional Leadership Styles of CEOs and their Relationship to Gender Diversity and Organizational Inclusiveness in Fortune 100 Companies • Dr. Kathy Hannan (C2)

Does Passion Pay? The Return on Values for Passion Qualitatively and Quantita-tively

• Dr. Wally Baehrend (C2)• Dr. Jean Russo Gould (C2)

Fostering Girls from Margin-alization to Next Generation Leadership • Dawn Harris Jeffries (C4)

Good Leader: A Theory of Virtues-based Leadership • Dr. Steven Carter (C2)

Humility as a Foundational Strategy Capability for 21st Century Organizations • Dr. Melissa Norcross (C3)

Leadership Development: Proposing a Values-Driven Model for the 21st Century • David W. Barnett (C4)

Positive Leadership Devel-opment: An Existential Ap-proach for its Development • Enrique Lopez (C3)

Values in Conflict: Ethical Leadership as a Style in the ELSQ • Dr. Wally Baehrend (C2)• Dr. Mike Chikeleze (C1)

Values and Transformation: A Case Study in Elder Care Innovation • Dr. Wally Baehrend (C2)• Dr. Kathy Hannan (C2)

Dr. Wally Baehrend (C2) and friend Ellen Hoekstra, with Dawn Jeffries (C4) and husband Dr. James Jeffries, III.

Overview of Game-Based Learning in Values-Driven Leader-ship Education (ODC Doctoral Consortium Presentation)• Dr. Brad Davis (C3)

I Love This Place! Creating Positive, Values-Driven Organi-zations in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (ODC Professional Development Workshop)• Chair: Dr. Gus Gustafson (faculty)• Dr. John Heiser (C2)• Dr. Kim Cameron (distinguished visiting scholar)• Dr. Jim Ludema (faculty)• Dr. Mary Gentile (distinguished visiting scholar)

Becoming Scholars and Scholar-Practitioners in Organiza-tion Development and Change (Professional Development Workshop)• Dr. Mike Manning (faculty)• Dr. Inger Stensaker (distinguished visiting scholar)

The Development and Practices of Benevolent Leaders: A Mixed Methods Study (ODC Doctoral Consortium Presentation)• Dr. Nancy Sayer (C3)

Heads, Hands, and Heart - Enhancing Employee Engage-ment of Millennials through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (ODC Doctoral Consortium Presentation)• Al Zucco (C3)

See page 11 for AOM 2018 presentations.

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2017

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Preparing Leaders for a Turbulent World: The Status of Doctoral Programs(Pre-Conference Workshop) • Dr. Gus Gustafson (faculty)

Sustaining a Values-Driven Firm in Turbulent Markets: A Field Trip with Magnetrol In-ternational (Pre-conference Workshop)• Dr. John Heiser (C2) • Dr. Jim Ludema (faculty)

Using Big Data, Design Thinking, and Strategic Networking to Engage Stakeholders in Turbulent Environments • Chair: Colleen Lyons (C4)• Brett Hinds (C4) • Dr. Jim Ludema (faculty)• Dawn Gay (C4)• Commentator: Rens van Loon, Deloitte

Turbulent Times Call for Transformational Measures• Chair/Presenter: Dr. Gus Gustafson (faculty)• Barbara Steel

• Dr. Nancy Sayer• Dr. Dan Blood• Colleen Lyons• Commentator: Dr. Ron Riggio (Distinguished Visit-ing Scholar)

Global Leadership Excel-lence: Thinking, Doing, and Core Competencies• Chair: Dr. Jim Ludema (faculty)• Dr. Joyce Osland (Distin-guished Visiting Scholar)• Amber Johnson (C4)• Dr. Tina Huesing (C3) • Commentator: Dr. Stepha-nie Quirk (C3)

Emerging Scholars Re-search Consortium Poster Session• Dr. Stephanie Quirk (C3)

Business NOT as Usual: Unexpected Leadership Responses to Challenges & Threats • Chair: Chris Lauritzen (C4)• Enrique Lopez (C3)• Dr. Melissa Norcross (C3)

• Dr. Patrick Farran (C3)• Commentator: Dr. Tova Sanders

Benevolent Leadership: A Practice Demonstrated Model for Non-Profit and Faith-Based Leadership• Chair: Amber Johnson (C4)• Dr. Gus Gustafson (faculty)• Dr. Nancy Sayer (C3)• Dawn Harris Jeffries (C4) • Commentator: Dr. Craig Johnson (Distinguished Visiting Scholar)

Bold Strategies for Leading Innovation, Building Culture, and Managing Conflict in Global Firms • Chair: Dr. Jim Ludema (faculty)• Brett Hinds (C4)

• Tasha Patterson (C4)• Dr. John Heiser (C2) • Dr. Joyce Osland (Distin-guished Visiting Scholar)

Humility + Compassion = More Impactful Leadership for Turbulent Times • Chair: Dr. Gus Gustafson (faculty)• Matt Sowcik• Dr. Melissa Norcross (C3)• Dilyss Gallyot (C3)• Commentator: Rhonda McClellan

International Leadership Association Annual Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, November 2017

Photos: Participants leave for the field trip to Magnetrol Inter-

national; Wally Baehrend, Jim Ludema, and Tasha Patterson outside Magnetrol; Stephanie

Quirk at the doctoral poster session.

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Upcoming Events

September 12-14, 2018Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry, Benedictine University - click for more info

September 14, 2018 Doctoral Program Campus In-formation Session for Prospec-tive Students, with Class Visit- click for more info

October 24-28, 2017International Leadership Asso-ciation, West Palm Beach, FL - click for more info

November 9, 2018 10th Anniversary Celebration & Senior Executive Roundtable with Barbara Fredrickson, Bene-dictine University Campus- click for more information

December 5-7, 2018Appreciative Leadership for Peak Performance Workshop, Benedic-tine University - click for more

April 5, 2018Cohort 5 Welcome Weekend, Se-nior Executive Roundtable, Last Weekend of Class for Cohort 4 - click for more info

Left: Jim Ludema greets guests, including visiting scholars, students, and alumni, at a dinner held during the 2018 Academy of Management annual meeting. Above: Students, graduates and faculty with Peter Northouse in Belgium, during the 2017 ILA conference.

Pre-Conference Opportunities for ILA

Headed to West Palm Beach for this year’s International Leadership Associa-tion summit? Consider arriving early for one of two pre-conference workshops led by your CVDL colleagues:

• Giving Voice to Values: Learning to Act On Your Values, $70. With Wally Baehrend (C2), and CVDL visiting schol-ars Mary Gentile and Craig Johnson.

• Doctoral Consortium, $48. With Gus Gustafson. Get feedback on your research agenda and connect with other scholars.

Visit this link for more details and to register for either event.

AOM 2018: ChicagoAugust 11-14

That Was Great! More High-Impact Exercises for Teaching or Consulting on Organizational Change• Dr. John Heiser (C2)• Dr. Mike Manning (faculty)• Dr. Mary Nash (friend of the CVDL)

Organizational Change for Achieving Gen-der Career Equality (Doctoral Consortium)• Angela Karesh (C4)

The Impact of Team Leader and Team Member Humility on Team and Organiza-tional Performance (Doctoral Consortium)• Francisco Vazquez Jr. (C4)

Doctoral Consortium Faculty Mentor• Dr. Jim Ludema (faculty)